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fifty eight † fifty nine
“The smell of the ink flooding my nostrils the moment we stepped inside...
↑→ 73.— 76.
Building layouts, hand drawn
recollections by an ex-The Thanet
Press print worker, Michael Verrion
building was divided to take account of the steps of the print process.
Heavy machinery had its own machine room, with two floors of offices above
which show a flow between the different print processes, and to and from
the printing presses.
The photographs from the archive show the amount of space required
to accommodate the many cabinets of drawers of the lead letters or type
in the 1930s, and then the more modern layouts showing different types of
reproduction equipment, office furniture combined with older style
drawing boards. ◊
