R&R Clark

Printers

Brandon Street, Canonmills, Edinburgh

 

Recollections

1.

Jim Cairns

Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Thank you to Jim Cairns, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, for sending me two  photos of compositors at R&R Clark's works, Brandon Street, Canonmills.

Jim wrote:

Caseroom No.2

    R&R Clark, Brandon Street, Canonmills - Depositors in Caseroom No.2, around 1953 ©

"The compositors in this photo are in Number 2 Caseroom.  The photo would have been taken around 1953:

   

Apprentices

    R&R Clark, Brandon Street, Canonmills - Apprentices' Tea Break, around 1962 ©

"The apprentices in this photo (left to right) are:

-   Peter Monteith

-  Jim Cairns (me)

-  Ian Boyter

-  Ian Shields"

This photo would have been taken around 1962."

It's a shame that R&R Clark has disappeared, along with many more great Edinburgh printers.

Jim Cairns, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland:  May 13+31, 2012

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:

Printers' Pie and Pyknyks.

 

Recollections

2.

Jim Cairns

Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Thank you to Jim Cairns, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, for writing again with more memories of working for R&R Clark..

Jim wrote:

Burns Suppers

"The Burns Supper in January was always the first big celebration of the year:

During the 1950s and early-1960s, the men gathered at the Liberton Inn, and after a pie and pint, they had their pictures taken with the barman, and set off on foot for the Harrow Inn at Dalkeith.

R&R Clark workers on their outing to the Burns Supper 1959 ©

The R&R Clark Burns Supper in 1959 was a particularly special occasion – the bi-centenary of Burns’ birth, and a banner was made for the march to Dalkeith.

The route to the Harrow Inn was almost five miles long, and the men relieved the boredom by playing football among the traffic along the Old Dalkeith Road!

This tradition lasted well into the 1960s, but complaints in the Edinburgh newspapers led to a change of route and to the final whistle for their football exploits!"

Jim Cairns, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland:  June 6, 2012
Photo added June 11, 2012

 

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