I recently paid a visit to the Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life, where they have recreated what they thought a small rural printing office would have looked like in the late 19th Century.
I found the imprint on this one quite interesting. It says: “Printed at the office of R Bonk, Paper-hanger, Market Place, Pickering.”
My understanding of a “paper-hanger” is someone who pasted decorative wall-coverings in houses. Could it also have meant someone who printed, and, presumably, pasted-up posters?
