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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.

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.

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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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1906-07 Penrose Annual - Wales, UK
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Quality Type Listings - Missouri, USA
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30pt Coronet Ludlow Matrices - Derbyshire, UK
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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.

Re: Typesetting Sheet Music
Quote from: stafford on Yesterday at 09:55:52 AMThey came from The Curwen Press, and how they got to St. Brides is a mystery that will never be revealed! (probably)Sounds intriguing
Re: Typesetting Sheet Music
Apart from setting type there was another way, and a set of punches to do it are now somewhere in the St Brides Foundation Library collection.They came from The Curwen Press, and how they got to St. Brides is a mystery that will never be revealed! (probably)
Re: More Ben Franklins Needed!
There have been many postage stamps honouring Benjamin Franklin but the ones that are of interest I have posted in the Postage Stamps thread. I post them here as well to save anyone trawling through that thread if they ...