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“My Dad worked at Thanet Press for 37 years, starting as an
apprentice before working his way up to customer service manager
and then onto senior management. It was a job that caused him an
incredible amount of stress at times, but I also know he was beyond
proud of working there - it was very much like his third child.”
“Funnily enough, when I went back after 3 years, I had the same clock
number, the same desk
equipment, some was sold to North Foreland Press, and the rest was
and the same job that
scrapped, as was happening across the UK.
In 1985, Leeds firm John Waddington bought Eyre & Spottiswoode.
I'd been made
The buildings and machinery were acquired for a low price, implying the
redundant from!”
business was by this time struggling to survive. The acquisition marked the
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Waddington’s Customer’s Day Out
end of the business connection of a family name with print, that could be
traced back over two hundred years. [21.— 23.]
John Waddington was known as a board game manufacturer, and had
their own printing companies, Waddington Security Print and stamp printer
House of Questa. The Margate site kept the Eyre & Spottiswoode name
