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Subject: DAILY TELEGRAPH (LONDON) Author: MALCOLM GREGORY [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 14:59:30 09/24/02 Tue My name is Malcolm Gregory and I now work in a boring Law Firm involved in archiving. In my previous life I spent 20 years working the Linotype and Intertype first on local newspapers (Walthamstow Guardian), crummy typesetters (names best forgotten) and for 15 years permanent nights on the London Daily Telegraph. I was always fascinated by the Linotype as an apprentice watching the operators from behind my type frame. What a Billy Bean machine it was. To a young lad things seems to whiz, grab, plunge and then abracabra . . . there was a line of type!! I had the ambition to be a Daily Newspapers Linotype operator from then. When I look back at the anarchy that existed in the papers in those days I can hardly believe the fun we had at work. I don't think that I can say that now. The machine itself was unique, keyboard onwards. Also you had to be a bit of an engineer to clear the splashes, disser stops, broken liners etc . . . in fact never a dull moment. One of the saddest sights that I saw was after I left and I was passing Fleet Street and a lorry pulled out stacked out with old linos being removed from the Daily Express looking forlorn and passed over. Anyway, glad I got that off my chest. Anyway, glad I got that off my chest [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date My experience Frank Netherton 15:37:27 10/14/02 Mon express linos Barry Adams 10:23:41 11/02/02 Sat Wrong town -- Frank Netherton, 08:43:06 11/06/02 Wed