THE sad shell of once-mighty Sunnydale Mill awaits demolition in 1936.

Once the centre of a working community above East Morton, it had manufactured paper for banknotes and better-class stationery.

And the mill had been the first in this district to install a Fourdrinier paper-making machine, worked by an elaborate system of dams, channels and waterwheels, one of which was claimed to be the largest in the British Isles after that at Laxey on the Isle of Man.

By 1878, however, the business was in financial straits and closed down.

Its attendant cottage community survived until the Second World War.

According to the 1891 census, the community comprised worsted workers, a millwright and a caretaker of the mill reservoir, which had been incorporated into the local authority waterworks system.