Category: Picture gallery

Michael Terry Harrington writes:  Myself on the left, Michael Prestedge centre and Jan (Lou) Dee on the right. This photo was taken by Jan Dee when the three of us apprentices met in September 2004. We decided to meet in the Clarence pub, which is situated opposite the Whitehall Theatre, as we had many a…

Michael Terry Harrington writes:  This photo was taken at St Stephen’s Parliamentary Press, Blackfriars, sometime around 1961–4 and shows Terry Robinson seated at a No. 54 Linotype machine in the Security Department. (Photo from Michael Terry Harrington)

Michael Terry Harrington writes: This photo was taken at St Stephen’s Parliamentary Press, Blackfriars, sometime around 1961–4 and shows Ernie Seabrook standing at his frame in the Security Department. (Photo from Michael Terry Harrington)

Michael Terry Harrington writes:  This photo was taken at St Stephen’s Parliamentary Press, Blackfriars, sometime around 1961–4 and shows Henry Hall seated at his frame in the Security Department. Henry was not his actual name, just a nickname after the band-leader. Nobody used his correct name and I have certainly forgotten it. (Photo from Michael…

This photo was taken at St Stephen’s Parliamentary Press, Blackfriars, sometime around 1961–4 and shows (left to right) Michael Prestedge, Terry Sweetman, Allen Harris, Jack, and Harry Taylor. We are all standing around Jack’s large proofing press. The first three from left to right were the apprentices. While Jack was in charge of the proofing…

Presentation being made in the Composing Room of the HMSO War Office Press, Whitehall (opposite the Horseguards) about 1959. The comp room was situated in the basement of the War Office, but opposite the wall were plenty of windows as a shaft came right down in the centre of the building. Left to right: Ernie…

Cornwall House, in Waterloo, was requisitioned by HMSO in 1919. This picture was taken in 1950, by which time it had hardly changed. (Photo: Crown copyright)

HMSO Bookshop, Holborn, which opened in 1966 and is now a Coffee Shop. (Photo: Crown copyright)

The busy Duplicating Section at Shepherdess Walk in the years immediately following the end of the Great War. (Photo from Reg Walker)

Roy Plackett writes: Yes, the ‘Friday Club’ is still going strong after some 30 years and ‘oldies’ certainly applies to our lot! We put it down to good company, real ale and keeping regular — the latter applies especially to Pete Bradbury. We meet at least once a week keeping on the move between various…