Bradford Industrial Museum has a variety of galleries showing different industries, and here is a shot from the Printing Gallery.
This shot of cast metal type pieces stirred strong memories for me. My grandad had a home hand printing press and he used to set the type for printing things like wedding invitations, and then using his printing machine to produce the final product.
I was sometimes allowed to help him set the type, and it was my job to find the appropriate next letter. I remember really struggling with the concept that the type had to be a mirror image of what was to be the printed result.
Printing is a good example of technological change. The small printing jobs that my grandad used to do can now be easily and quickly done with a home computer, in only a fraction of the time the traditional process took.
I remember these but the letters were in rubber. They still use them today for certain jobs, like stamp receipts. The museum must be very interesting especially for our next generations who only know computers.
Thank you all for your lovely comments and favs, they are very much appreciated, and they put this shot on the Popular Page.
Another memory that came to me after I had posted this shot was that my grandad had a hand date stamper where the date was altered by turning various wheels. I suspect that was used to help me learn the months of the year!
( I`m very found of an artist who`s use his printing tools to make art in the past. H.M. Werkman )
Yes, I agree, printing has really improved with technology.
Thank you all for your lovely comments and favs, they are very much appreciated, and they put this shot on the Popular Page.
Another memory that came to me after I had posted this shot was that my grandad had a hand date stamper where the date was altered by turning various wheels. I suspect that was used to help me learn the months of the year!
Ian
Ian
Thank you Vesna, I enjoyed my visit to this museum a lot.
Ian