Workshop
Poole Printmakers
5 Bowling Green Alley
Poole, Dorset, England, BH15 1AG
The Workshop
The Albion Press
This is a press typically used by jobbing printers from around 1830 to 1930. Designed for printing relief letter press documents such as pamphlets, handbills, and books it could also produce posters. This press was built by the Hopkinson and Cope Foundry based in London, probably sometime around the 1850s. It was a design with a patent number 3545 and a serial number 3101. The design is strongly influenced by the motifs popular in Victorain Gothic architecture in the 19th Century. The Poole Printmakers press has a of bed 740mm by 530mm making it one of the larger versions of the Albion and able to print images close to this size. The pressures is exerted by a wedge and lever mechanism and this can deliver strong loads.
