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Yorkshire Post, 1924

Yorkshire Post — Busy composing room.

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

Linotype keyboard — The linotype keyboard. Spacebar to the left, then lower case, numbers, etc. are in the blue section and caps on the right. There is an expanding spaceband on the tray above. The blue section also contained the now little-used ligatures (fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl).

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

Hilton Birtwistle — Hilton Birtwistle.

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Wairoa Star, New Zealand

Type in composing stick — Type in composing stick (72pt Christchurch Bold Condensed).

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. Read the Full Article . . .

Queensland Newspapers, Brisbane

Pages waiting to be dissed — Pages being lined up for the last time before being dissed.

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. Read the Full Article . . .

Airedale Products, Halifax

Intertype C4 — David Evans at work on an Intertype C4.

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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London Evening News 1980

London Evening News stonehands — Dick McWilliams and colleagues round the stone at the London Evening News. The picture was taken the day the paper folded at the end of 1980 after losing out in the circulation war with the London Evening Standard. Dick (a sub) is to the right with glasses and no apron.

All smiles round the stone as the London Evening News bites the dust in 1980. Picture sent in by Dick McWilliams.

Hemphill County News

Hemphill County News — Elna and Othello Miller at work side by side at the Linotype machines. The couple founded the “Hemphill County News”, a weekly newspaper in Canadian, Texas in 1938. Othello Miller was the Editor-publisher and Mrs. Miller was in charge of reporting and advertising. The paper ceased publication after 30 years with the death of Mr. Miller in 1968.

Picture taken in the 1930s/40s

Yorkshire Evening Press

Stonehands — Yorkshire Evening Press stonehands posing in front of a Ludlow, late 1970s. The guy leaning in from the left is John Bradley, the big guy to the right at the back is Bob Procter, next to him Derek Johnson, left of him John Langthorp (wearing the “hat”) and the man at the front in the grey jacket was Frank Smith.

There are six pages of Yorkshire Evening Press photos on Metal Type. Check the “Related Pages” menu to see the rest.

Harry Craig

Harry Craig — Harry Craig has been working all his life on Linotype machines. Here he is, at 75 years of age, still doing photomount typesetting with a linotype 31.

Harry, from New Zealand owns and maintains three Linotype machines. Pictures sent in by his colleague, Tim Ede.

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