Printing the Groat
Recorded 9 years ago
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Alan Mackenzie began his working life at the John OGroat Journal in 1966 as a message boy before becoming an apprentice printer. In this interview he describes the work involved in preparing pages and getting the presses rolling to print the Groat and Courier every week before the printing operation was eventually moved out of Wick. In the early days, he recalls, they had to make do with 19th-century technology”. Alan was in charge of the production department by the time he left in 2012. By then the digital revolution had taken place and producing newspapers was becoming a much less labour-intensive operation. Alan and his wife Kathryn now run Loch Watten House B&B.
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