Bacchus Marsh & District Historical Society
Manuscript, As We Go to Press. [Recollections of the Bacchus Marsh Express Newspaper and Printing Company]
... Allan Arnup 1913-1997... Marsh Express newspaper and printing business. Allan Arnup 1913 ...
Allan Arnup was born in Bacchus Marsh in 1913. In 1929 he began work at the Bacchus Marsh Express newspaper as an apprentice printer. Over several decades he worked there as a printer, foreman and eventually as a manager. The Express newspaper, founded in 1866, was printed in Bacchus Marsh for over 100 years. The Express also provided a general printing service for the community in addition to printing copies of the Express newspaper. This unpublished manuscript was written around 1990 and looks back on Arnup's long career as a printer and manager with the Bacchus Marsh Express newspaper and printing business.Manuscript. Typescript. Spiral bound. 29 pages. Photocopy of an original typescript.
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