Gwasg Gee Print Works, Denbigh - July 2012

Gwasg Gee was a publishing firm founded by a printer, Thomas Gee, in 1808 and taken over by his son, a more famous Thomas Gee, during the 1830s and based in Denbigh, Wales. The name means "Gee Press". In 1914, the business passed out of the hands of the Gee family, and it was in difficulties when the author Kate Roberts and her husband, Morris Williams took it on in the 1930s. Gwasg Gee was one of the principal publishers of Welsh language books for almost two centuries. It ceased publishing in 2001.

I'd been wanting to visit here after seeing it on Britain's Heritage Heroes back in February, finally got around to going and was not disappointed at all.

Hopefully the trust that have formed to get this place open as a museum will be successful, would be a shame for this to be lost.

Storage units for the printing blocks. The old presses. A close up, nice and greasy. Handles. Spare parts. Some kind of contraption. More printing press. Power supply and oddly shaped cam. Linotype machine. Keyboard. Printing blocks. Some large blocks. Items that they have printed. More in a drawer. More machines. Clocking on machine. Orangeade. Milk powder.

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