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Interior view of the Bath and Cheltenham Gazette's Printing Office 1855

Interior view of the Bath and Cheltenham Gazette's Printing Office 1855

Image Reference: 42232
Image Date: 1855
Measurements: 12.4 x 19.9 cm
Medium: print
Collection: Scrapbooks
Library Reference: Hunt Vol. 3, p.168
Credit: Bath & North East Somerset Council
Library: Bath Record Office : Archives & Local Studies

Description: An inking table stands beside a Columbian Press with an eagle atop. Beyond, a printer is working an Albion Press with, possibly, packets of paper on the floor beside it. Compositors are working at the type cases at the back corner. Along the centre an empty forme is on the floor in front of a wooden common press (against which the Wood's printing poster is leaning), with a smaller press on the table behind. The large cylinder press in the corner probably printed the newspaper itself in quantity, the other presses printing smaller jobs, such as the posters on the walls. The man in the front right could be dampening the paper ready for printing. It would be dried on the t-shaped hooks hanging from the ceiling after printing. Hunt notes that the printing works were in Parsonage Lane.

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