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Goss was a Preston company wasn't it Colin? I worked in the engineering trade and was involved with quite a lot of work re Goss presses.

That's correct, Roy. Goss presses Greenbank Street, Preston. The Preston factory started life under Foster and sons printing presses around the 1880s, in 1935, the company was taken over by Goss. The Goss company was foundes by two brothers, Sam and Fred Goss, Illinois, USA in 1885. (I think) Goss international, closed the Preston company in 2006.

Has anybody got any pics taken inside the Post and Chronicle printworks when it was at Leyland Mill Lane?

Nev, click on to work and then printers, I have uploaded some on there.

Thanks Colin!

Colin,
I came across this site by accident, and have enjoyed your photos as well as the comments.
I was fortunate to grow up in a daily newspaper in Tennessee of about 35,000 circulation in the 1960s and 1970s (it peaked at 55,000 has has been in decline since).
The paper was printed on a Goss Universal letterpress installed in 1958. The Universal never missed an issue until it was retired in 1988. My dad was superintendent at the paper, and after finishing school, I followed in his footsteps and became a "Gypsy Printer" after learning the offset process.
I noticed quite a few comments that a paper should be printed in the town it serves. I agree!