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Managers and staff at a belated Centenary Celebration in 1948. The event should have taken place in 1944 but was postponed   The factory in the 1950s, looking down its access road towards Straw Mill Road and Reed paper mills' two chimneys.
 
An undated picture of building workers at AP&S, soon after one of Reed's two chimneys had been demolished   AP&S’s Tovil Works and Head Office cricket teams at one of their annual cricket matches in Maidstone in the 1950s
 

Bindery department staff in the 1950s, perhaps ready to set off on a 'wayzgoose' (print workers' outing)

 

 

 

Frank Peacock, letterpress manager (fourth left, front row) with machine room employees in the 1950s

 

 

Recreational and social events were an important aspect of life at AP&S, including an annual climbing weekend in Snowdonia for employees and customers. This group was photographed there in 1981.

 

 

Children's entertainer Richard Hearne (Mr Pastry) starting up a new Roland VII press in 1967.