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Garrison Lane

Lyn this building may still be there I remember it,right at the bottom of the hill opposite the park. Dek
 
Ash Rubber Stamp printers I think.

Used to get a lot done there when I had a business pemises in Lawley St. Apparently their method was unique, and a lot of the equipment actually built by the original Mr Ash.
 
thats very interesting col as i used to work for ash rubber stamp at their premises on constitution hill in the early 70s...

lyn
 
Astoness said:
thats very interesting col as i used to work for ash rubber stamp at their premises on constitution hill in the early 70s...

lyn
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I remember the rubber stamp shop near the Cedar Club, had a few made there. Now you mentioned it, I'm wondering if I had a senoir moment re Garrison La. I have a feeling that they were two different companies. The one in Garrison lane was certainly a rubber stamp firm as well, and had an unusual method. I'm just not 100% sure it was called Ash Rubber Stamps now.

Anybody got a Kellys for the area ? it was certainly there when I was a kid, and iirc closed down in the 80s, possibly due to a fire regs problem with their having wooden buildings.
 
In Kelly's 1969, 56, Garrison Lane, Rubber Printing Developments Ltd. rubber stamp mkrs.

Colin
 
Colin B said:
In Kelly's 1969, 56, Garrison Lane, Rubber Printing Developments Ltd. rubber stamp mkrs.

Colin
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Yeah thats it, RPD. Printed using rubber type instead of lead I think.

Must be old age, not so much creeping in as running up behind me.

thanks Col B
 
RPD Ltd in 56 Garrison Lane(facing the park)was a major employer in the local area. Established in 1946 by 4 ex servicemen, one of them being my Father. Made rubber stamps for all over the world and invented the first Perspex rubber stamp in the world. A thriving business until its demise in the early 1990’s and then destroyed by fire. If anyone has any photos of at all of this era would be appreciated.
Geoff Wragg
 
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