Date: 1885
Probably the first of the craft to settle here was happy in the possession of an old wooden double-pull press, and, with the balls with which he bedaubed his forme, produced broadsides which were thought to be marvels of the age.  We now have printing machines of automatic construction — self-feeders, contrived so as to help themselves to plain sheets of paper at one end and deliver them at the other, printed, and that without any manual labour whatever, save in occasional superintendence.  The double-pull press has been superseded by printing machines propelled by steam, gas, or water-power ; the business, which once could not keep one press going, has now so multiplied as to require the services of some forty presses and machines ; the one compositor has 400 successors in the various departments of the business ; and the one " devil " has developed into " devils " innumerable- The works of Messrs. Hazell, Watson and Viney, Limited, are amongst the esta blishments of the town where industrial occupations are largely represented, as, directly and indirectly, that firm alone gives employment to no less than 350 resident artizans.