Clunbury Press

The Society has many items of memorabilia from the Cooper’s sheep-dip and aerosol manufacturing days. Les Mitchell wrote about his time at Clunbury Press in It Was But Yesterday.

“On August 9th 1943, nearly three weeks before my fourteenth birthday, I started work at Clunbury Press, the printing department of Cooper McDougall and Robertson Ltd., the local sheep-dip manufacturers and the largest employer of labour in the town. The name ‘Clunbury’ was taken from the Shropshire village of that name which had strong associations with the Cooper family.”

From Jean Franklin’s account of her father The Life and Paintings of Bill Baily (Chronicle, vol.XIX, Mar 2022):

“In 1927 Bill commenced a printing apprenticeship to Cooper McDougall and Robertson’s Clunbury Press in Manor Street, paid for by his uncle Thomas Henry Nash of the brush factory in George Street.”

“In later years as his health deteriorated Bill spent his spare time recording in paintings the locations, people and industries of bygone Berkhamsted, including the printing machines and buildings at Clunbury Press. Bill took great pride in his work as a Lithographer at Clunbury Press.”

Bill Baily’s illustrations of Brush Making…