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Employees of R&R Clark Brandon Street, Canonmills, Edinburgh |
Jim Cairns getting a 32 page forme of type ready to go to press
Around 1963
© Reproduced with acknowledgement Jim Cairns, Dunfermline Fife Scotland. Photo taken around 1963. Photographer not known
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R&R Clark Workers |
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Jim Cairns Thank you to Jim Cairns, who started working for R&R Clark as an apprentice compositor in 1959, for allowing me to reproduce the photograph of himself, getting a 32 page forme of type ready to go to press. |
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Another Photo Here is another photo of Jim Cairns working at R&R Clark. In this photo he is setting type by hand: |
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YouTube Video R&R Clark was founded in 1846 and remained in business in Edinburgh until 1979. Jim Cairns has been collecting photos of R&R Clark employees at work and at play, and photos of tickets and programmes for social functions that the company has produced over the years, the earliest dating back to 1887 Jim has now put these together to create an interesting a 21-minute film on YouTube that captures the atmosphere of the company and its workers. The film is titled: |
