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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.

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