The works opens on Ashfield Lane with a single flatbed press.

First contract with the county archive, and it is still running.

A second press arrives and the night shift starts with it.

Bindery added upstairs, so everything is finished under one roof.

Thirty staff, and the first catalogue printed for export.

Four-colour litho replaces both flatbeds inside a fortnight.

The Ashfield Lane building is bought outright from the estate.

First museum commission: nine hundred plates over two years.

An apprenticeship starts with the technical college up the road.

The recession takes half the trade work and none of the archive work.

A digital short-run press is installed beside the litho.

Every job since 1991 is catalogued and put on open shelves.

Letterpress is restored for editions and jobbing work.

A second site opens for finishing and warehousing.

The first carbon audit is published, and the vans go electric.

Everything shuts for eleven weeks. Nobody is laid off.

Print comes back, and so does the waiting list.

The bindery is rebuilt around a new folder and a new guillotine.

The fiftieth museum edition leaves the works in September.

The third generation joins the floor, on the same apprenticeship.