Really informative read about compositors. My father was a compositor in the thirties up to the sixties. And father of the Chapel. A Yorkshireman apprenticed to the Yorkshire Post and then on the Manchester Guardian and then for the Daily Mail in London. Though he freelanced for most of the other papers. A worker who preferred the nightshifts. At heart he was an engineer and extremely good at breaking down and rebuilding engines. He also imparted a love of reading to me. He was always a labour supporter yet he gave me all the middle class advantages. He died in 1967 but I remember him telling me a year before his death that within ten years the old trade of compositor and old methods of printing would be a thing of the past. He was right and predicted the onslaught of the computer age. Thank you so much for your informative and beautifully researched (practical and theoretical) page.
Really informative read about compositors. My father was a compositor in the thirties up to the sixties. And father of the Chapel. A Yorkshireman apprenticed to the Yorkshire Post and then on the Manchester Guardian and then for the Daily Mail in London. Though he freelanced for most of the other papers. A worker who preferred the nightshifts. At heart he was an engineer and extremely good at breaking down and rebuilding engines. He also imparted a love of reading to me. He was always a labour supporter yet he gave me all the middle class advantages. He died in 1967 but I remember him telling me a year before his death that within ten years the old trade of compositor and old methods of printing would be a thing of the past. He was right and predicted the onslaught of the computer age. Thank you so much for your informative and beautifully researched (practical and theoretical) page.