We recorded a collection of oral history interviews with people working in the printing industry in east London, which will be housed at London Metropolitan Archives. Extracts from the interviews are included below:
Bob Elson from Horizon Print talks about working in Hackney Wick
Mike Heym talks about the print industry in Shoreditch
Gary Arber from Arber & Co talks about his family’s letter press workshop on Roman Road
Roger Pertwee and Terry Smith, Baddeley Brothers
Bob Hall
John Finn talks about the printing industry
Colin Nixon, who worked at Eagle House Press and other places
Philip Hartstein, Hartstein & Co Paper Bag Manufacturers