I was saddened to learn that the printing museum in Cockemouth, Cumbria had recently closed and the contents of the place were up for sale. The Museum had been housed in a 16th Century building in the centre of the town where it exhibited a varied range of printing presses collected from across the country...

Last week I mentioned my visit to Morcambe and the Midland Hotel. Well, the other surprising – and delightful – aspect of this seaside town is it is absolutely covered in letterforms. ‘Flock of Words’ is a path of bird poems, traditional sayings, jokes and song lyrics, which begins with the Book of Genesis...

Watford doesn’t have many architectural features, but the one building of any merit it does have is its college. Erected in the 1930s it as good a building as you’ll find in the town. Significant too that is was, for over half a century, home to one of the best schools of printing in the country. But...

I have long been a reader at St Bride Library where I have spent many hours trawling its archives for nuggets for both Prints Past and the many features I have written for Print Week . Located in the traditional heart of the printing and publishing industry, St Bride Library is a rendezvous where anyone...

Print Week suggested I might like to have a blog. I’ve never had a blog of my very own before so this will be a bit of an adventure, although it’s buried pretty deep in the bowels of the website so I have absolutely no idea if anyone out there is going to find this – if you do, drop me a line and let...