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ORGANS PRINTERS

Tucked away down the drive which branches off Church Walk, past Tanners and Piltdown, in the direction of Mulberry Cottage, the premises of Organs Printers didn’t exactly stand out. Indeed, as John Organ says in this conversation, probably most people in Wrington didn’t even know there was a printers in the village. All the more surprising, then, that Organs were known by, and produced posters, programmes, handbills for virtually every theatre from Land’s End to John O’Groats. At the time of this recording, the firm had survived a downturn brought about by his aunt’s reluctance to invest in the new machinery - off-set litho - which had revolutionised the industry - notoriously the newspaper industry (Wapping and all that) top to bottom. So, an upturn because they’d eventually picked up that investment challenge, but, again as John says, they were already on the cusp of laser printing coming in as the next ‘big thing’. The fact is, the firm packed it in only a few years later, which makes this demonstration of how they did the job so well -  specialised packaging for the likes of Yeo Valley yoghourt, for example - all the more important a record.