Comments on: Roger Pertwee, Manufacturing Stationer

By: Emma Baddeley

Emma Baddeley — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 13:00:01 +0000

Much food for thought here, thank you. And greetings to Melissa Rice, John James my great, great Grandfather and brother of your William Henry.

By: Melissa Rice

Melissa Rice — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 21:28:36 +0000

William Henry Baddeley is my 3rd great grandfather so this was such an enjoyable read as I do my genealogical research. Thank you so much for posting!

Melissa (Boes) Rice
Seattle, WA, USA

By: richard Whitaker

richard Whitaker — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:22:47 +0000

Started using Baddley Brothers in 1960 when I joined the nearby printing works of Thomas De La Rue in Bunhill Row.
Following this I joined St Clements, Fosh and Cross in Mansell Street, where once again I encountered the services of this
excellent company when I asked them to make some special sized envelopes to fit a PLC’s Annual Report and Accounts.
After that I joined Chadwick Jefferson Printers in Kent, where we printed City and Financial work which meant that we
again had to call on the services of Baddley’s who always were helpful. I can remember they embossed the front cover
of an Annual Report for a computer company we printed one year. After a decade in Cambridge as an academic, learned,
scientific printer I was suprised when arriving in Whitstable, Kent to find the company I was working for there had
one of their catalogues of cards and envelopes which were sold under the trade name of BB Cartridge, Centernary if my
memory serves me well. What a history which is probably unique now as so many of their competitors are long gone.

By: Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 22:34:36 +0000

Njce to see the company is still going strong in such days as these. I still remember life at Paul Street with no little affection and the fine people who made up the diverse workforce.

By: Graham Short

Graham Short — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 18:24:57 +0000

Very interesting article!

When I started work as an apprentice in Birmingham in 1962, Baddeley Brothers was one of our customers. there were also other London diestampers; Baddeley, Reynolds & Dix, Frank Seary and Frewer Brothers. I started my one-man engraving business in 1974 and closed it last year. Again, I had many London diestampers as customers; Gibbs Print, Rayment Holland and A. G. Perrott come to mind. I find it very sad that the diestamping trade has all but died. Even sadder that people do not appreciate hand engraved stationery anymore.

I now work as a micro-artist, using my hand engraving skills. Please take a look at my website if you have a few minutes. Hope you find it of interest.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:37:08 +0000

I worked in a City corporate finance department where we had a team of people dealing with the documentation for things like bond issues. As well as all the legal papers, they were responsible for getting everything proof read and off to the printers on time so the certificates could be done. When I think back the 80s seems like the dark ages as everything was done by phone and fax – I work in the web industry now where it’s all email and sending links to people on Skype, so much more immediate.

They used to get miniature certificates for bond and share issues set into acrylic to give away as paperweights at the signing ceremonies – wonder if they still do that? I have a couple in the attic somewhere!

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 06:42:15 +0000

“the die is cast” … IIRC “Alea iacta est”
NOTHING AT ALL to do with making a mark with a die, I’m afraid!
It is to do with throwing a single die (plural dice) & is supposed to have been said when Julius Ceasar crossed the Rubicon river to march on Rome & make himself dictator, 1oth January 704 AUC (49BC)

By: rosie Dastgir

rosie Dastgir — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:45:34 +0000

Nice piece: I always puzzled about the origin of the saying, ‘the die is cast’?

By: SBW

SBW — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:29:49 +0000

Brilliant, thank you very much for this fascinating account of how an excellent business has developed and progressed, through difficult times. A great London story. Their skills and expertise is much admired, and I hope will continue to be.