Papers were snatched from the press mid-run for checking (From Bucks Free Press)
Send your news, photos and videos by texting bucksfreepress to 80360 or email
Papers were snatched from the press mid-run for checking
1:42pm Monday 14th July 2003 in
A FEW papers were then taken off the press for checking.
Our picture shows a printer picks up a paper to check its quality, as it leaves the folder unit of the Foster rotary printing press.
It is the November 4, 1938 edition of the Bucks Free Press.
More BFP history stories
- ‘We ran for our lives if someone dropped some heavy type in case the ceiling came down’
- Calling all ex-employees
- Celebrating 150 years of newspapers
- 2005 Bucks Free Press makes the move
- Printing took place in town centre
- Do you have Bucks Free Press memories?
- Typesetters retyped articles to create lines of metal lettering
- Lines of metal type were placed in a frame
- Compositors had a seven-year apprenticeship
- The metal pages would be read using a wet piece of paper
Most popular
Local Information
Enter your postcode, town or place name
