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

Linotype fan? Don’t miss the Linotype Chat section of the Metal Type Forum. Read the Full Article . . .

Cosco Printing

Linotype Model 8 — Edward operating a Model 8 Linotype in June 1988, towards the end of the hot type days at Cosco Printing in North Carolina (US).

Photos taken in 1988 during the last days of hot type at the North Carolina (US) company. Sent in by Bob Scurry.

Edward Farnell (1915-1998)

Linotype fan? Don’t miss the Linotype Chat section of the Metal Type Forum. Read the Full Article . . .

Sunday Telegraph UK

George Clark, who has also written two stories for Metal Type, sent in these photographs of the last days of hot metal.

Welcome to Metal Type

METAL TYPE is the place for printers, typesetters and newspaper workers, who fondly remember those letterpress days, to come and reminisce.

The site originally concentrated on the ingenious Linotype mechanical typesetting machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1884. Read the Full Article . . .

Shoe Lane to India

Linotypes on Lorry — Linotypes on the back of a lorry in Shoe Lane (between the Express and Telegraph) as they were being taken from the Express to India somewhere.

Photos by Malcolm Gregory of Linotypes leaving London’s Fleet Street for the journey to India in the late 1980s.

Linotype fan? Don’t miss the Linotype Chat section of the Metal Type Forum. Read the Full Article . . .

Editor’s Highlights . . .

Printle: A Word Puzzle for Printers Try our word puzzle – there’s a new one every week.
German “new line” linecasters The story of the most advanced linecasters ever made, with illustrations of all models.
British Print Trade Union Cards – A unique collection of typographically exquisite membership cards from Dave Bowles.
Glossary of Printing Trade Terms – George Clark’s list sheds light on a whole new language!
The Whittaker Collection – Photographs of this definitive collection of linecasters stored at the UK’s Manchester Science Museum.
Banging Out – Fleet Street Remembered -Video documentary about the UK national newspaper industry.
Farewell etaoin shrdlu – A look at the production of the last hot metal New York Times.