Airthrey Mill was sold to the Orient Paper Company of Calcutta in 1946. Its equipment was dismantled and sent to India, as post World War Two, paper-making machinery was at the time almost unobtainable.
The mill chimney was dismantled around 1966.
In due course the site, off Blairforkie Drive, became the modern housing development around Allan Walk.
This view is take from the Old Bridge with the mill lade for the Kierfield Bleachworks in the foreground. The sloping ‘dam’, though at times dangerously slippy, was a magnet for children seeking ‘elvers’ as they wriggled through gaps in the stonework. A poultry farm occupied the flat ground of the riverbank. Feeding the hens from the bridge was an eagerly anticipated event for toddlers.