Aldgate Press

Serpentine Galleries - Power Pack: Climate Emergency
Tate Gallery - Buggy Walk
Rococo Chocolates - Roald Dahl bar packaging
Human Rights Watch Film Festival brochure
Whitechapel Gallery - Peter Doig; Art Icon catalogue
V & A - Mary Quant exhibition
Black Tomato - The Agenda book
Marguerite stationery
Ottolenghi book
Japan House, London; corporate brochure
Tate Britain - concertina leaflet for Vital Fragments
Illustration-Animation course student catalogue; Kingston University

If you would like to discuss a print job please send us an email, phone or fill in the Quote Request form.

Units 34 & 35, Bow Triangle Business Centre, Eleanor Street, London E3 4UR

Nearest tube: Bow Road / Bow Church DLR (use the entrance on Tidworth Road, off Wellington Way).

tel: 020 7247 3015

email: print@aldgatepress.co.uk

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In 1986 we printed this book 'Printing is Easy...?

In 1986 we printed this book 'Printing is Easy...? Community Printshops 1970-1986'. Sharing this week for our 40th anniversary!

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In the 1990s the building in Angel Alley was fireb

In the 1990s the building in Angel Alley was firebombed in a politically motivated attack, and following this Aldgate Press moved around the corner to Gunthorpe Street, in the building accessed through Angel Alley at the side of the Whitechapel Gallery, which is where we were until 2015 when we moved to Bow.

The portrait photos shown here were taken by the late Colin O’Brien in 2013 for the article on the Spitalfields Life website. #AldgatePress40

Aldgate Press was originally part of Freedom Press

Aldgate Press was originally part of Freedom Press, the anarchist publishers and bookshop founded in 1886. Vernon Richards from Freedom Press had previously bought Express Printers, that was in the building next door (now the Whitechapel Gallery), but the equipment had become too old to use by 1972 and so they started using other printers in and out of London, including Magic Ink in Margate. Freedom raised money from donors to start Aldgate and bought the first press for £2000. Shown here are a selection of publications printed for Freedom Press as well as the Anarchist Book Fair.

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A few details from the background of one of the 19

A few details from the background of one of the 1980s/early '90s photos, showing some of the kinds of things we were printing at the time
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These photos are from Angel Alley E1 where Aldgate

These photos are from Angel Alley E1 where Aldgate Press started in 1981 (the sign can just be seen at the left hand side of the first photo).

We’re sharing archive images this week as it’s our 40th birthday!

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This photo from the 80s or 90s features Steve Sorb

This photo from the 80s or 90s features Steve Sorba in the original Aldgate Press office at 84b Whitechapel High Street, when the presses were in Angel Alley. Steve is the only remaining person working at Aldgate who was there at its inception in 1981, and is probably in a similar position at his desk at this very moment! If you have called in to see us to discuss a project then you will probably have met Steve at some point in the past 40 years.

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We still have our first order book from July 1981

We still have our first order book from July 1981 and here are some extracts from the first page.

Our first customer was of course Freedom Press, others include women’s typesetting co-op Bread N’ Roses, @mattsgallerylondon, Oxfam, Goldsmiths and Byam Shaw. Also included are letterpress printer Dennis Gould (pictured, photo by James Kriszyk) and poet Jim Huggon, who among other publications produced Kropotkin’s Lighthouse, pictured here with a credit to Express Printers, who were Freedom’s printers before Aldgate were established and were located in the building which is now the @whitechapelgallery.

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We've printed a few editions of this book publishe

We've printed a few editions of this book published by Rebel Press over the years. This is the first one from 1983, designed by Gabriella Le Grazie who worked at Aldgate at the time.

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This photo by Nicholas Breach from the 1979 book '

This photo by Nicholas Breach from the 1979 book 'The Streets of East London' shows what Angel Alley looked like before Aldgate Press was established in July 1981.

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