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Overview
Introduction to the
site [4 February 2023]
Latest
news [27 March 2023]
History
Brief histories of the
companies [20 June 2012]
How the
companies were related [10 August 2013]
Timeline
Events from
1890–2004 [22 March 2020]
The People
About the lists
[1 November 2022]
People lists from
A–Z [29 September 2023]
Key to
abbreviations and symbols [5 February 2023]
Compiling and analyzing the lists [1 November 2022]
Sun Families
The Farrell
Family [10 July 2012]
Farrell Family Tree [3 March 2005]
The Davis
Family [10 August 2013]
The Davis Family Tree [10 August 2013]
Reminiscences
From the 1900s to the
1980s [16 March 2021]
Facts and Opinions
Call for
contributions [22 October 2018]
Overviews and Specifics
A Brief History of Sun
Engraving [22 March 2008]
Developments and Problems
at Sun, 1950s to 1980s [24 July 2005]
The Fire Brigade [17 November
2006]
The Ink Factory [25 January
2022]
The Ink
Factory Closure [25 January 2022]
Inside the Sun
[24 July
2005]
Marketing Pressures on
Magazine Printers [24 July 2005]
One Customer’s
Viewpoint [26 November 2006]
Producing ‘Window’ in WWII [20 January 2022]
Rembrandt between
1955 and 1957 [12 April 2006]
Rembrandt
Output/Productivity between 1955 and 1957 [12 April 2006]
Sun Clock Tower [7 January 2023]
Sun Departmental Employee
Statistics, 1964 [17 November 2006]
Sun Printers Manchester Office [12 April 2006]
The Background to Lord Southwood's Offer to Purchase Sun Engraving [27 March 2023]
Why Did Watford ‘Lose the Print’? [21 November 2020]
Visual Identity and Marketing
Marketing Themselves [25 January 2022]
What's in a Name? Why 'the Sun'? [24 June 2008]
The Decade of Expansion
[26 November 2006]
Operation 'Sun' Rise:
Details of the Plan [25 January 2022]
Operation 'Sun' Rise: Les
Hodge’s Photo Essay [25 January 2022]
Equipment and Methods
The Albert TR5 [12 April
2006]
Automatic Inset
Registering [25 November 2005]
The Autotron
Manual [25
November 2005]
The Axel Springer
Patent Application [25 June 2006]
Gravure Printing and Gravure Presses Explained [1 August 2005]
Press and
Equipment Configurations, Manning, and Details [26 November
2006]
The Chargehand’s
Duties [25
November 2006]
Colour
Retoucher [Rembrandt] [23 June 2008]
The Composing
Room [11 February
2023]
The Engraving
Room [25 June
2006]
The Ink Minder’s
Duties [Rembrandt] [21 November 2006]
The Reel-Hand’s
Duties [25 January
2022]
The
Register-Hand’s Duties [Rembrandt] [12 April
2006]
The Retouching Room
[25 June
2006]
Rinco [25 June 2006]
The Role of Natsopas
(Assistants) [23 June 2008]
Solvent Recovery [4 April
2006]
Working in Letterpress [15 February
2023]
Picture Gallery
About the Gallery
You Can Help
Featured Contributions
The Art of Corrie Graddon
[19 December 2009]
Gladys Rendell's Rembrandt Photographs, 1932-34
[10 August 2013]
Pictures
wanted! [1 January 2022]
The Gallery [25 January 2022]
Film
‘Watford
Works’ [30 September 2017]
Help Us
How you can help
[25 January
2022]
Sun
project questionnaire [25 June 2006]
About Us
Contact information
[13 July 2019]
Birth of a
website [22
October 2018]
Sources
[20 January 2022]
Glossary
Terms used on this
site [30 April 2020]
Links
Related sites [13 July 2019]