Alex Mackie, who joined HMSO in November 1960, was pleased to feature in this cover article from the S.O. Review dated February 1961. It featured a cartoon drawn by Jack Palmer with caricatures of printing staff in the PG5 area. The caption reads: ‘The P&B Railway on this month’s cover was constructed in Room C90, Atlantic House,…
Author: Robert Stutely
20 January 2021 – From Stuart McLaren
In Tim Riley’s memories of Pubns in the early 70s, he asks: ‘Do we know who holds the record for longest tenure of the same HMSO post?’ Working on the logic that alone among HMSO employees the Controller cannot raise any higher up the greasy pole, I had a look in Barty-King’s history of HMSO…
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We are grateful to those readers who have contributed brief accounts of their time with HMSO, and beyond. Please feel free to join them: modesty is not essential. Any embarrassing events you may wish to divulge will be rigorously edited to protect both the innocent and the guilty. Especially as regards Christmas parties. Listed…
18 January 2021 – From Tim Riley
It occurred to me last month that I was approaching the fiftieth anniversary of starting work in my first full-time job: an EO in Publications Division of HMSO at Atlantic House. Not long after I started, I stopped an older colleague in her tracks when she was laying down the law to our HEO, Vic…
12 January 2021 – From Ann-Marie Simpson
Hi Reg, I hope you and yours continue to be safe and well. I’m not sure if it’s normal to show memorial stones on the website but thought you might like to see Sinclair’s as we’ve included reference to his printing days. The stonemason, Teucer Wilson – who we discovered works in Caithness stone and…
6 January 2021 – From Fred Stubbs
I wish you and yours a Happy New Year – It should be an improvement on 2020! All grandchildren and great-grandchildren will read about 2020 in their school history books. I enjoyed looking back on all the photos of yesteryear of HMSO – Jack Palmer’s cartoons are amazing. I can recognise all the ‘choirboys’. He…
24 December 2020 – On the Feast of St Stephens
And all the other HMSO premises from the days when things were good and we didn’t necessarily appreciate them. It was cheering for the HMSOldies team to receive heart-warming messages from Betty Pooley, John Cripps, Norma Groom, Valerie Bailey, John Rumball, John Eason, Malcolm Horton, Gordon Parfitt, Christine Hawthorn, Jane Burgis, Adele Cook, Anne-Marie Simpson, Keith…
17 December 2020 – From Angela and John Barker
Good morning Reg I hope that you and your family are well and looking forward to Christmas. It is certainly going to be difficult this year. Please convey my thanks to you and your team who keep HMSO alive on its web site. It is always good to see how ex-colleagues are getting on. Sadly…
14 December 2020 – From Brian Cockram
Reg, Last Monday we had an al fresco lunch at a local hostelry to celebrate Christmas. A rather damp and misty day where the temperature did not get above zero centigrade. Hopefully next year all will be very different and we will be back inside. Picture of rug wrapped bodies above. There was outdoor heating…
11 December 2020 – From Jane Henderson
Your paperweight photo made me smile – talk about triggering memories – I was the one who had to sit in a cold draughty glass factory in Wath upon Dearne for 3 days inspecting hundreds of blank paperweights ready for the transfers to turn them into the Bicentenary paperweight ‘special edition’. Only the best were…