Author: Robert Stutely

Keith Batchelor seen as a youthful forty-something (with a similarly youthful Jim Stewart) setting out the stationery in Lancaster House. (Photo Crown copyright)

HMSO Dispersal to Norwich 1963-1969: The Negotiating Teams (Photo from Reg Walker)

Alan Pawsey with raffle prize of wine and glass. (Photo from Dave Martin)

At the table are Jim Marshall, Lynda Marshall, Alan Pawsey, Steve Carruthers, and various others whose names I don’t know or have forgotten! (Photo from Dave Martin)

Jim Marshall (mostly) — preparing to lead his lunch group in beer and wine tasting exercise accompanied by food at La Petite Bouffe, Boulogne. (Photo from Dave Martin)

A cartoon from the days when wives wore a frock on the beach and the idealised, unattainable woman was as near in shape to Marilyn Monroe as possible. The idealised, only too attainable, man was as near to the bar as possible. And in those days, a week’s leave included Saturday morning. Thanks to Jack…

One of Jack Palmer’s many cartoons which illuminated the SO Reviews (From Jack Palmer)

A cartoon of P&B from around 1961. How many of these characters can you identify? Click here for the answers. (Photo from Jack Palmer)

The 1980 Government Printers Conference visit to Hansard Press on 17 September 1980. Ken Lowe (General Manager, Hansard Press) explains the operation of a Ferranti VDT with Terry Butler, HMSO, seated at the keyboard; (standing left to right): Bjorn Hagen, Norway; Thomas Wilhelmsen, Norway; Ken Lowe, HMSO; Vincent Toolan, California, USA; Carl La Barre, GPO,…

Peter McAuley shows how they managed customer care in the HMSO Bookshop, Belfast 1989. (Photo from Reg Walker)