The Unions...

Newspapers were still proofing up until the 1980s, and Peter remembers that at the Telegraph pages were still being proofed in this way. Peter recounts that if a journalist had touched the galley proofing machine the place would have been brought to a standstill. He remembers a time when he was working on the local evening paper in the 1970s when he came down to the printing department looking for proofs, he thumbed through the printer's pile of papers at the exact moment when the printers were coming out of a union meeting. Peter was spotted touching the equipment and the paper was almost stopped because of this.