Anyone Remember

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

I am looking for some guys i uesd to work with at a printers in Basildon. During my time there It had various names including Nuffield Web Offset and Capricorn print.

The Printers was situated in Hovefields Court near Burnt Mills Industrial Estate if I remember correctly.

The names i remember from there are.....

Simon Chandler
Dave Woolf
Keith Newman


We are talking about 20 years ago though!!

 

[steveo]

I am looking for some guys i uesd to work with at a printers in Basildon. During my time there It had various names including Nuffield Web Offset and Capricorn print.

The Printers was situated in Hovefields Court near Burnt Mills Industrial Estate if I remember correctly.

The names i remember from there are.....



Simon Chandler
Dave Woolf
Keith Newman


We are talking about 20 years ago though!!

Who owned the firm? Might be able to find out that way

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Who owned the firm? Might be able to find out that way

Not to sure Stevo...

The one name i can not remember is the initial name when i started there, it changed hands about 3 to 4 times and I was only there a few years but worked with a big team of split shifts and night workers....really diverse guys.

 

[steveo]

A load of printers in Essex have gone out of business over the years.
If you knew one of the bosses i could see if he was still trading

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

A load of printers in Essex have gone out of business over the years.
If you knew one of the bosses i could see if he was still trading

We never got to meet them, we all worked in Pre Press and had managers that over saw the 3 shifts, there was about 20+ on each shift. One of the big Publications we did was AL Hawadeth International....it was a weekly Arabic magazine.

There were a few older guys working there who joined from Eden Fishers (Printers) in Southend...across from the Fire Station on Sutton Road.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I knew a Dave Woof, not Woolf.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

I knew a Dave Woof, not Woolf.

Sure is was Woolf.....he would have been an apprentice so probably around 35 ish now

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

I think that another one of the many guises the company went under was Thames Mouth

 

[Mad Cyril]

I think that another one of the many guises the company went under was Thames Mouth

Some mug told me to shut my ****ing Thames mouth once.

Once.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

I think that another one of the many guises the company went under was Thames Mouth

Were you a compositor, machine minder or a machine assistant (Natsopa)?. I worked at Essex Web Offset from 1973-1989 as a machine minder (5 year apprenticeship), and in the late eighties some of our minders went to work at Thamesmouth. If Keith Newman was a compositor, then he came to Essex Web in the mid eighties. He would be in his late fifties now. At the end of May, there was a reunion of ex Eden Fisher, Essex Web and Yellow Advertiser staff at Southend Rugby club. Over 100 of us attended. The majority were comps from Eden Fishers and the YA.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Were you a compositor, machine minder or a machine assistant (Natsopa)?. I worked at Essex Web Offset from 1973-1989 as a machine minder (5 year apprenticeship), and in the late eighties some of our minders went to work at Thamesmouth. If Keith Newman was a compositor, then he came to Essex Web in the mid eighties. He would be in his late fifties now. At the end of May, there was a reunion of ex Eden Fisher, Essex Web and Yellow Advertiser staff at Southend Rugby club. Over 100 of us attended. The majority were comps from Eden Fishers and the YA.

I was a comp....then 4 colour final film planner, this is back in the day when it was a craft......cutting mask and laying tints at the correct angle. Now its Mac's and litho plate printers apparently! :(

My dad was at Eden Fisher for years.....known as Bunty, he joined in 1969 with Tony Lowe. I don't suppose John "The Leg" was at the reunion was he?

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

I was a comp....then 4 colour final film planner, this is back in the day when it was a craft......cutting mask and laying tints at the correct angle. Now its Mac's and litho plate printers apparently! :(

My dad was at Eden Fisher for years.....known as Bunty, he joined in 1969 with Tony Lowe. I don't suppose John "The Leg" was at the reunion was he?

We were both in the industry, when as you rightly say, it was a skilled craft. After 22 years i walked away from it, disillusioned as to what it was becoming. That was 17 1/2 years ago, and i have been employed in the self adhesive label industry ever since (although whether the company is still around in a years time is somewhat doubtful). Unfortunately at the reunion, i did'nt hear anyone being referred to, or called 'John the leg'.
Have to add that in the eighties, we earned very good money, probably more than what some current day printers earn, if what i hear is correct.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

We were both in the industry, when as you rightly say, it was a skilled craft. After 22 years i walked away from it, disillusioned as to what it was becoming. That was 17 1/2 years ago, and i have been employed in the self adhesive label industry ever since (although whether the company is still around in a years time is somewhat doubtful). Unfortunately at the reunion, i did'nt hear anyone being referred to, or called 'John the leg'.
Have to add that in the eighties, we earned very good money, probably more than what some current day printers earn, if what i hear is correct.

My dad said to me this evening that the company was also called Perivans back in the day??

Yeah....I know what you mean about the money, I was earning an obscene amount of money at 24....went and brought a 3 bedroom house, had money laying about everywhere and thought it would last for ever. 3 years later i was redundant and struggling to meet all the repayments. Still, I did have a ball!!!

John the "leg" was called so due to the lack of a right leg!! lovely old bloke, who would do anything for anyone but the younger lads did wind him up a lot, when he was resting his stump on the many of the double shifts we pulled, they used to hide his leg.....One of the apprentices went out on to the main road at about 11pm at night and laid on the floor next to his FS1E moped with John's leg about 5 foot away from him just to freak passing traffic.

 

[londonblue]

I am looking for some guys i uesd to work with at a printers in Basildon. During my time there It had various names including Nuffield Web Offset and Capricorn print.

The Printers was situated in Hovefields Court near Burnt Mills Industrial Estate if I remember correctly.

The names i remember from there are.....

Simon Chandler
Dave Woolf
Keith Newman


We are talking about 20 years ago though!!

Was Simon Chandler ex Southend High School? I believe he was in my brother's year. From what I gather/remember he either left before his O Levels, or dropped out. He would be about 45 now.

Let me know if this rings a bell. I'm seeing my brother tomorrow at the Northampton match. I can speak to him...

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

My dad said to me this evening that the company was also called Perivans back in the day??

Perivans were in Progress Road in Eastwood. They were a 4 colour printers, and were equipped with Mann Roland presses.