Another pakka building that came up in the Aspiration area in the early 1970s was the Handmade Paper Factory building. Here is a construction photo of the bridge over the Aspiration “canyon” (which should properly be labelled a gully) with the factory behind it from January 1972. The next photo is of the bridge as it exists today, with the factory hidden behind trees.
Here are construction photos of the factory from June 1972, December 1972 and February 1973 (all the 1970s photos are by Indra Poddar):
The factory now hidden behind trees is still being used for its initial intended purpose.
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