| Description | One box containing material relating to planning and setting up of a composing room including Fenton's handwritten notes on various aspects that should be considered when setting up a composing room such as composing room arrangements, layout, equipment, compositor's frame and cabinets, and lighting. Also included are: leaflets from suppliers and their products, for example, lining-up and registering table, and machinery and sundries; handwritten notes of possible questions for an exam; a letter from the Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories of the Home Office to Fenton replying to Fenton's question about the width of gangways in composition departments of letterpress printing works; a booklet produced by the composing students from St Bride Institute entitled Material Locator; floor plans of composing room [possible from the LCC and Stamford Street buildings]; newspaper cuttings about Spurgeon's Tabernacle [1959]; leaflet about the LCC building in Elephant and Castle and brief history of the college [1963]; booklet produced by Medical Research Council and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research entitled The Effect of Different Systems of Lighting on Output and Accuracy in Fine Work (Typesetting by Hand) [1928]; booklet issued by the Home Office entitled Lighting in Factories and Workshops [1923]. Also included are photographs of machinery, printing rooms of possible industrial places. |