{"id":588,"date":"2017-06-12T18:24:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/?page_id=588"},"modified":"2024-12-18T10:19:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T09:19:47","slug":"withy-grove-manchester-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/withy-grove-manchester-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Withy Grove, Manchester &#8211; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/forum\/index.php\/board,30.0.html><\/p>\n<p><button class=\"w3-button w3-padding-large w3-white w3-border\" style=\"background-color:#D62503;border:none;\n    border-radius:10px;\"><b>NEW: Withy Grove Forum \u00bb<\/b><\/button><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:-30px;\"><i>Make it Yours!<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Paul Bailey for sharing these photographs. Says Paul: &#8220;Hi, found your site a while ago, I started work at Withy Grove Press, Thomson House, Manchester as an apprentice Monotype Caster &amp; Keyboard Operator in the jobbing section, then I moved (upstairs) to the day composing and linotype section, then finally onto nights as a keyboard op on the national dailies.<\/p>\n<p>I knew I had taken some photos, but I had handed them all out to the lads as mementos when Withy Grove closed down. But having recently purchased a neg scanner to digitise family photos, I found the negs of the ones I had taken at Withy Grove.<\/p>\n<p>When Thomson House closed I went into chemical sales for a while, then went back into printing in Skipton at the Craven Herald as an Apple Mac op, worked in Keighley, Ilkley and Bradford before finally ending up in Blackburn at Newsquest North West Headquarters as a graphic designer. Five years ago the design production was farmed off to India. Since then I\u2019ve had the odd job or two, but if some one offered me a job back at Withy Grove I\u2019d snap their hand off. Great place, great blokes \u2026 loved it.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/631.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Bailey setting the Telegraph TV guide\" width=\"550\" height=\"806\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Bailey setting the Telegraph TV guide.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/625.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/625.jpg\" alt=\"Denis Barber (Ali)\" width=\"550\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denis Barber (Ali)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/628.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/628.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Bailey seated and George Vale\" width=\"550\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Bailey seated and George Vale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/627.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Bond\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Bond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/630.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/630.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Calvert at the Elrods\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Calvert at the Elrods.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/629.jpg\" alt=\"Racing-up-to-date crew\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Racing-up-to-date crew.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/626.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/626.jpg\" alt=\"Ged, messenger boy and Dave Grant\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ged, messenger boy and Dave Grant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/623.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/623.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Heald\" width=\"550\" height=\"831\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Heald.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/624.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/624.jpg\" alt=\"Denis Sidebottom and Bomber Harris\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denis Sidebottom and Bomber Harris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/621.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/621.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Peason\" width=\"550\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Peason.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/622.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metaltype.co.uk\/photos\/images\/622.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Mottershead and Arthur Bond\" width=\"550\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Mottershead and Arthur Bond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>More pics, added January 2021<\/h2>\n<p>Brian Stafford sent in these pictures. If you have any pictures taken at Withy Grove that you would like to see here please <a href=\"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/contact-page\/\">get in touch.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42252\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/withy_grove_retirement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-42252\" src=\"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/withy_grove_retirement-1024x805.jpg\" alt=\"Doc's retirement, Withy Grove\" width=\"840\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/withy_grove_retirement-1024x805.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/withy_grove_retirement-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/withy_grove_retirement-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/withy_grove_retirement-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/withy_grove_retirement-1536x1207.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/withy_grove_retirement-2048x1609.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/withy_grove_retirement-1200x943.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/withy_grove_retirement-382x300.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doc&#8217;s retirement from the Handicap Book. Left-Right: Brian Stafford (always fell asleep for photos); Arthur Bond; Doc Holliday; Jack (old pal) after he&#8217;d trapped his finger in the delivery guide on an Intertype (ouch!).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42251\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Brian-Stafford-typesetting-on-an-Intertype-in-1985-at-Thomson-Withy-Grove-taken-by-Doc-Holliday..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-42251\" src=\"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Brian-Stafford-typesetting-on-an-Intertype-in-1985-at-Thomson-Withy-Grove-taken-by-Doc-Holliday.-730x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Stafford typesetting on an Intertype in 1985 at Thomson Withy Grove, taken by Doc Holliday.\" width=\"730\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Brian-Stafford-typesetting-on-an-Intertype-in-1985-at-Thomson-Withy-Grove-taken-by-Doc-Holliday.-730x1024.jpg 730w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Brian-Stafford-typesetting-on-an-Intertype-in-1985-at-Thomson-Withy-Grove-taken-by-Doc-Holliday.-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Brian-Stafford-typesetting-on-an-Intertype-in-1985-at-Thomson-Withy-Grove-taken-by-Doc-Holliday.-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Brian-Stafford-typesetting-on-an-Intertype-in-1985-at-Thomson-Withy-Grove-taken-by-Doc-Holliday.-768x1077.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Brian-Stafford-typesetting-on-an-Intertype-in-1985-at-Thomson-Withy-Grove-taken-by-Doc-Holliday..jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 85vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Stafford typesetting on an Intertype in 1985 at Thomson Withy Grove, taken by Doc Holliday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>New pics added September 2021<\/h2>\n<p>Many thanks to Heather Stewart for sending in this picture of her father Norman Douglas Stewart who worked on the Daily Mirror from 1976 to 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Heather also added to the Comments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42384\" style=\"width: 434px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42384\" src=\"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0.jpeg\" alt=\"Norman Douglas Stewart, Daily Mirror typesetter, 1976-1984\" width=\"434\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0.jpeg 434w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-216x300.jpeg 216w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-108x150.jpeg 108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 85vw, 434px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norman Douglas Stewart, Daily Mirror typesetter, 1976-1984<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Heather also sent in these photos from her father&#8217;s collection, but has no idea as to who is in the pics. If you can shed any light on them, please comment below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42387\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-42387\" src=\"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-2-1024x709.jpeg\" alt=\"Withy Grove Sporting Chronicle Chapel\" width=\"840\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-2-1024x709.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-2-300x208.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-2-150x105.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-2-768x531.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-2-1536x1063.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-2-2048x1417.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-2-1200x830.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-2-434x300.jpeg 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Says Heather: &#8220;So I don\u2019t know who is in the following photo, but I reckon that guy in the shiny suit is a boss.. Although maybe not, but he\u2019s dressed like someone with money. Notice the plaque it says Sporting Chronicle Chapel, I wonder if that\u2019s the Chapel people were talking about on your page. Maybe it\u2019s because the photos of the people already on your page, they were the printers of the Horse Racing Newspaper etc (only just figured out what Handicap Book meant, lol). And so the people in the photos I\u2019ve attached below, they might be the printers of the \u201cNationals\u201d Daily Mirror\/Daily Telegraph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42390\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-42390\" src=\"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-4-1024x693.jpeg\" alt=\"Manchester Arndale Centre pub\" width=\"840\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-4-1024x693.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-4-300x203.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-4-150x102.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-4-768x520.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-4-1536x1039.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-4-2048x1386.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-4-1200x812.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-4-443x300.jpeg 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Says Heather: &#8220;The boss guy in that shiny suit again, with the matching tie\u2026. Anyway, if you look closely, that\u2019s Thompson House, through the window! Actual proof, lol. The building had those weird protuberances on the outside walls below the windows. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.co.uk\/pin\/275352964697612658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo of Thompson House<\/a> This photo must\u2019ve been in a club or pub, in the Arndale Centre, (before it was modernised after the IRA bomb), there were weird buildings with those weird rounded oblong windows. If you put this on, mention that it\u2019s Thompson House in the background maybe. Maybe it was the leaving do for the guy in the suit.. No idea who these people are again!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42388\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-42388\" src=\"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-3-1024x657.jpeg\" alt=\"Withy Grove visit\" width=\"840\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-3-1024x657.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-3-300x192.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-3-150x96.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-3-768x493.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-3-1536x985.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-3-2048x1313.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-3-1200x770.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image0-3-468x300.jpeg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Says Heather: &#8220;So I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on here, some kind of visit by bosses maybe, but there is my dad in the Blue overalls. Again, sadly, I don\u2019t know who any of them are, more bosses in suits in the middle. More typesetting! I don\u2019t even know, if my dad ever advanced to the Linotype machines, is that what people did? Advance on to those. But hand typesetting was a skill too. I have been watching videos today, I didn\u2019t know the difference of it all. Unless people like my dad organised the type after it was created by the Linotype machine, I guess he did that!? He was very clever, if there was advancement available, he\u2019d have been capable. These photos are probably from when I was about 4\/5 so around 1981\/82, maybe (judging by my dads hair). Think that first separate photo of my dad was about 78\/79.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42389\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-42389\" src=\"http:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1024x696.jpg\" alt=\"Withy Grove group\" width=\"840\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1536x1044.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2048x1392.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1200x816.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-441x300.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Says Heather: &#8220;Another group photo, with my dad on the left. I don\u2019t know who any of these men are either.. The guy with the chain round his neck\u2026. No idea where they are either. But they are definitely Printers, I know that.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>New Pics November 2023<\/h2>\n<p>I have been contacted recently by Derrick Lumb, who sent me these two photographs. I have asked him for further information, names, dates, etc. but so far have received no response. If anyone would like to shed some light on these pictures, please do so in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>In the first one everyone seems to be holding one of their shoes in their hand! Derrick says: &#8220;The photo with shoes is comps showing their shoes bought from Albert or Stuart, you could buy almost anything on the shop floor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46671\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/withy231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"935\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/withy231.jpg 935w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/withy231-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/withy231-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/withy231-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This next one, in colour, I guess would have been taken at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46672\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/withy232-1024x660.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/withy232-1024x660.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/withy232-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/withy232-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/withy232-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/withy232.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stuart Holmes, from night lino comps, contacted me with a couple of photos. He said: &#8220;It would be nice to see our names on the site, good memories of happy days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s the night Linos staffing list from about 1985.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/withy\/withy233.jpg\" alt=\"Staffing list 1985\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stuart also sent in this one of a banging-out ceremony. &#8220;Banging out ceremony, everyone shaking hands with the retiree passing through the composing room to the noise from banging of metal on the stones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/withy\/withy234.jpg\" alt=\"Banging out Withy Grove\" width=\"984\" height=\"752\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another one from Stuart. &#8220;Withy Grove Night Lino Comps football team ready to play against Lino team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/withy\/withy1b.jpg\" alt=\"Withy Grove football team\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Still on a sporting theme . . . &#8220;Stermac B bowling team, Thomson Withy Grove. I was the only compositor to play with these stereo department lads. Arthur Grewer was captain. 1980s.&#8221; said Stuart.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/withy\/withy2b.jpg\" alt=\"Stermac B bowling team\" width=\"562\" height=\"484\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were well paid in the Comps. Felt like millionaires on a 26 hour week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/withy\/withy3b.jpg\" alt=\"Wage rates\" width=\"626\" height=\"674\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A happy face you may remember,&#8221; says Stuart.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/withy\/withy4b.jpg\" alt=\"A happy face.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bringing it right up to date . . . a recent reunion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/withy\/withy5b.jpg\" alt=\"Printers reunion\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lino Ops, Tony Power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/withy\/withy6b.jpg\" alt=\"Printers reunion\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Latham, electrician worked 3 floors down in the cellars where all the power sources for the machines etc. were installed. His father Bert was a lino op and is shown on his retirement night in an earlier photo where he is wearing a silver suit and with the Chapel Committee of the Night Lino.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/metaltype.co.uk\/images\/withy\/withy7b.jpg\" alt=\"Withy Grove electricians\" width=\"939\" height=\"546\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eric Earnshaw added: &#8220;The Withy Grove Fellowship Christmas lunch which includes John Latham, I&#8217;m the bearded person sat next to John, and was employed at TWG from January 1967 to 1985. I was an electrician working my way to Deputy Chief Electrician under David Blance. In 1985 I was employed at TPP as chief electrician then Technical Manager, I left TPP in 1990 to become chief engineer at Knowsley. 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