Incline Press

17/06/2025

One book left, and it's on loan from Miles Wigfield, due for return at the Oxford Guild of Printers Garden Party. Everything else is either at Bopcap Books in Levenshulme or boxed up ready for the move. Until the ground floor is cleared of type cabinets I can't dismantle these shelves because I have nowhere to put them that wouldn't be in the way. And so it goes!

13/06/2025

Packing a few of my tchotchkas to move to Scotland, and wondered if anyone has seen a lion that would pair with this Festival of Britain unicorn. Surely they were sold as a pair, but I’ve never seen the other half - has anyone? The unicorn is the national beast of Scotland (as in the rhyme, The Lion and the Unicorn), so I'll not miss the lion but just wonder if a pair has survived, or even a lion on its own to suit this.

10/06/2025

Not seen a mackerel sky as well pronounced as this for quite a few years. Bow Street, Oldham.

29/05/2025

The first street of houses in Creetown seems to date from about 1760, build of fieldstone and given a lime harling to keep the rain out. Plenty of them still stand, altered over the years to keep them habitable, including slate roofs. I don’t suppose many of the old internal walls have survived, but here we are, cleared of Victorian plaster last night before modern insulation is added. As you can see, the uprights are mostly untrimmed branches, the infill a mixture of old local stone and Victorian bricks that would have arrived by sea, imported like the slate that replaced the vegetable roofing.

28/05/2025

Congratulations to and prize winner for this astounding woodcut, printed with at

28/05/2025

26/05/2025

No printing at Incline Press at the moment, waiting on the buyer of Bow Street to get his solicitor to act with a lot more speed. Money needed in the bank before we can get the repairs finished and the type moving. But there are cracks to fill, holes to repair, another location for a temporary kitchen, painting to progress (thanks to Vega for so much help!), sanding and varnishing. And we are making small steps with feeding ourselves - zucchini have flowers, tomatoes, lettuce, and fresh oregano.

20/05/2025

A plaque on the wall inside Coles Innisfail. Submitted by Antony Roth.
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On this site in the spring of 1882
TOM SEE POY
a native of Canton, China founded a family store trading as
See Poy & Company
His wife CHUN HAN and their family joined him later.
Subsequently, the family business traded under the name of See Poy & Sons Pty. Ltd. until the store's official closure in November 1981.
18 February 1985

13/05/2025

This is a cheese and lettuce bun, and this (swipe) is where the lettuce came from! Incline Press, getting on in Creetown!