Recent content by Andrew JS

Ping pong !.... it took off alright it went mad & I don’t think we ever stopped printing them, one machine constantly churning them out & the laundry ticket books they were so popular right up to the very last day & I think were sold by the receivers separately. I remember the name Bernard...

I'm keeping my options open at the moment see what happens but applying for all sorts - how strange though about the car delivery, my last job was working indirectly for JLR delivering cars to the press & VIP's all over the country & also did some royal work as well taking them cars !! luckily...

When I saw those initials I thought is that Rob ??!! - how lovely to hear from you on this forum. I too left the industry a few years after Sunderland Print went, Dad & I had a go at starting a business in London with a chap called Jon Grover which was great for a while but we had to get back to...

It was John Sunderland who was my father, he was the managing Director of James Upton for a number of years before he left to start his own printing business called Sunderland Print. They subsequently bought Allday Green & Welburn, Bradshaw Brodie & then the massive mistake of buying Lowe...

Thank you for your kind words about Dad, yes after the purchase of Lowe Brothers life never returned to normal nearly as one finds today totally nuts !! I can't say that I have been successful at all if I'm honest but in saying that I live in a lovely part of the Cotswolds with two grown boys &...

I think the RNLI was one of Dads favourite clients in the latter years of the business & oh do I remember the Christmas cards started in January to print if my memory serves me well ?!

I can remember the names of Les Timms & Sam Hatton - yes Sunderland print also use to print Stoke City, Hull, Sunderland, Norwich to name but a few, I can remember that I use to go to Roker Park quite regularly to deliver the match day programmes with one of the drivers at the time as I would of...

Well I'm over 5 years late joining this conversation but I am the eldest son of the late John Sunderland who was the MD of Sunderland Print who bought Bradshaw Brodie, they were next door to my fathers business & made perfect sense to acquire the business as they literally just knocked through...