Single sheets were hand-fed into the printer in the 1850s

3:15pm Monday 14th July 2003


PRODUCING the paper was a laborious process.

There were no typewriters so the copy was all hand written and the type was then handset, letter by letter.

Finally, the paper was printed by hand-feeding single sheets into the massive but slow-running printer.

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