Category: Newspaper

Yorkshire Evening Press, 1954

Stonehands
Featured on the photograph, as Ian recalls: Syd Wynn, nearest, Me (Ian Cottom), Sam Doherty (Napper), Wilf Benson, Armstrong, Bob Anley and I think Don Wilkinson (stone sub-editor).

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

Many thanks to an ex-colleague, Ian Cottom, for sending in a scan of the front cover of “The Newsman” from October 1954. Read the Full Article . . .

Willimantic Daily Chronicle, 1961

Willimantic Daily Chronicle
The newspaper was located in this building at 24-26 Church Street, Willimantic, Connecticut from 1877 until 1972. The building was demolished in 1976 after the newspaper had moved to the outskirts of town. The old location is now the Arthur W. Crosbie [memorial municipal] parking lot. My father, who died shortly before the parking lot was build, would have chuckled if he’d have known a parking lot was named after him.

Vin Crosbie allowed these excellent photographs to be used on Metal Type.

Vin said: “These photographs detail the production of a 10,000-circulation daily newspaper in Connecticut on Friday, March 17, 1961. I found these slides among those of my father, the paper’s general manager. The Chronicle has been owned by my family since 1877. I’m the fifth generation and the sixth is already working there. Read the Full Article . . .

Daily Mirror, UK

Daily Mirror
FROM L-R: Bert Heinman, Tom Bailey (who sent in the photograph), Charlie King and Norman Barnes overseeing the last wet dab of the front and back pages of The Mirror on the night of his retirement as “The Printer” in the early 1970s

Tom Bailey sent in this picture of Norman Barnes retiring from his job as “The Printer”, early 1970s.

Tom Bailey said: “To my mind the setting of type was an art form and having spent many hours setting five point type, visually letter-spacing said type for advertisements to be published in newspapers; actually cutting up cigarette papers and bus tickets to use in the spacing. Remember I was not the only one, I had to learn from somebody. Read the Full Article . . .

Yorkshire Evening Press, 125 Years

Linecasters on lorries
Linecasters are put onto lorries in October 1986 outside the Evening Press’s office in Coney Street, York. The Press’s trio of mechanics are in attendance.

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

In October 2007 the Yorkshire Evening Press, based in York in the UK, celebrated 125 years of production by delving into their archives and publishing a special souvenir supplement. Read the Full Article . . .