I was speaking to a work colleague of mine recently who was telling me of the good old days in the newspaper industry. - in the days before the humble Mac or PC, back in the days of hand and machine setting type from hot lead.

He then proceeded to produce from a shelf in his office an old GALLEY which he had kept from a past life containing hot metal type.

As a designer who has grown up with computer technology, I was fascinated by this piece of history so I had to ask if I could take some shots of it...

Here are a some of them...enjoy.