Compositors had a seven-year apprenticeship

2:02pm Monday 14th July 2003


THE frames were all placed together to form a complete page.

Here compositor Frank Watson is adding the final lines of type to a page.

Considering the words had to be read upside down and back to front, you can appreciate why compositors had a seven-year apprenticeship.

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