Many thanks to Ernest Bray from London for sending in this photo and caption.
Category: Location
International Printing Museum
A Model 31 Linotype at the International Printing Museum, plus some other pics, kindly donated by Dr Leland Whitson.
Linotype Factory, Brooklyn
A superb colour illustration of the Linotype Factory in Brooklyn, New York, USA from about 1900-1920. Kindly sent in by Roy Daniels.
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Burlington Press & Electrical Press
Mike Wilson also sent in these pictures of himself and his father.
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Yorkshire Post, 1924
Mike Wilson sent in these pictures from a publication entitled “Producing a newspaper: The Story of the Yorkshire Post.” Published in December 1924.
Printing House Museum
The photographs on the following pages were all taken at The Printing House Museum, Cockermouth, Cumbria, UK. The museum unfortunately closed down in 2010.
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Men and Machines
Pictures taken at the giant Manchester Withy Grove newspaper plant before it closed down in the 1980s. Sent in by Eric Saltmarsh.
Enjoyed the photos? There’s more from Withy Grove on Metal Type. More photos here: Withy Grove – and this page has a lot more photos plus loads of comments and feedback from workers: Withy Grove 2.
Wairoa Star, New Zealand
Pictures sent in by Graeme How, taken in the late 60s and early 70s.
We have four pages of articles about the Wairoa Star sent in by Graeme, check the “Related Pages” menu to see the others.
Queensland Newspapers, Brisbane
Pictures of the last day of hot metal production, sent in by Alan Jones.
The photographs that follow were scanned in from a special edition published by Queensland Newspapers in Brisbane, Australia back in 1982.
Airedale Products, Halifax
In January 2002 I was invited by David Evans to look round the company where he works. They have 6 or so Intertype C4s which are mainly used to produce people’s names on slugs. The slugs are then used to personalise pencils, pencil cases, bookmarks, etc. with gold blocking.
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