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Printing works
The Times Newspaper Headquarters with the Black Friar public house in the foreground and St Paul's in the background, City of London, seen from the south-west from the Unilever building
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NOTES: The site of the Times Newspaper Headquarters has since 2003 been occupied by the corporate headquarters for Mellon Bank, designed by Skidmore Owings and Merrill.
Clarendon Building, Broad Street, Oxford: pedimented side facade
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NOTES: Erected for the University Press in 1711-1713 from the royalties of Lord Clarendon's 'History of the Great Rebellion', this building house the press until 1832 and was more commonly known as the 'Printing House'. Latterly, it is occupied by the offices of the University Registrar & University Chest.
Clarendon Building, Broad Street, Oxford: framed view of the courtyard facade from the gated entrance to the Bodleian Library
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NOTES: Erected for the University Press in 1711-1713 from the royalties of Lord Clarendon's 'History of the Great Rebellion', this building housed the press until 1832 and was more commonly known as the 'Printing House'. Latterly, it is occupied by the offices of the University Registrar and University Chest.
Daily Mirror building under construction, Holborn Circus, City of London
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NOTES: In 1994 the Mirror Group Newspapers moved from this site to new premises in Canary Wharf and this building was soon after demolished to make way for the new headquarters of J. Sainsbury.
St Luke's Printing Works, Old Street, London
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NOTES: This building was designed and constructed in the 1780s as the purpose-built home for the St Luke's Hospital for Poor Lunatics. It was sold to the Bank of England in 1916 to become the Bank's printing works for producing banknotes. Damaged in the Blitz, the facility moved to Essex in 1958 and this complex was demolished in 1963 to be replaced by a shopping centre.