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at investment and professional collectors.
Carl Freedman, the gallerist, owns a second business, Counter Editions
housed in another of the nine industrial buildings on the site. Counter
Editions produces limited edition prints for international artists, including
Tracey Emin. Known for her Margate roots, Emin has also returned to the
area and created a suite of studios, which includes further
old buildings on the site, to either side of the gallery.
Together Freedman and Emin, in making prints, are
‘YOUR VOICE’
keeping the history of the site alive. This jumble of
Walking through Old Town,
buildings was previously home to The Thanet
Margate, or your own local area,
Press, Eyre & Spottiswoode’s print works.
what evidence do you notice of your
With this connection to the name of printers,
past local community and their skills
first
used in Margate in the 1790s, we are
and expertise? Perhaps you can share
reminded that for more than 200 years, the
a story about what you noticed on
industry
has evolved and remains an important
your walk, with someone that might
contribution
to creative life of Thanet. ◊
know more about this past way
↓ 8.
What’s on - Holiday Map
of Thanet [CK]
eighteen † nineteen
→ 9.
Bobby & Co Ltd
management and staff
outside the Crescent
Printworks Building
c1935
of being in your
local area.
