Comments on: At The Aldgate Press https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/01/at-the-aldgate-press/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:36:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Graham Moss https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/07/01/at-the-aldgate-press/#comment-124251 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 17:19:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=92303#comment-124251 The information given at the beginning is incorrect: it was Vernon Richards’ father who was implicated in a plot against Mussolini, Vernon being a child at the time. The Daily Telegraph published the information, putting lives at risk as the Italian fascists had a wide web of assassins who were sent abroad to deal with opponents of the regime. They were taken to court to try and obtain a retraction, but the judge decided that the article was in fact true, so there was no defamation. This all happened in the late 1920s.

The money to set up Aldgate Press came from supporters of Freedom Press over 60 years later. The previous incarnation, Express Printers, was a letterpress printshop operating out of the basement of an old school built across Angel Alley from Freedom Press, then moved into the Freedom Press building to enable the Whitechapel Gallery to buy the old school from Vernon Richards who had purchased both as bomb-damaged property. Express Printers was closed when it was no longer possible to get the type cast in linotype slugs and the paper had to go to off-set printing, roughly the mid-1970s.

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