title	Nosher Leaves Soman-Wherry Press, Norwich - 3rd August 1988
intro	Nosher finishes up the placement year at Soman-Wherry Press on Heigham Street in Norwich with a wander around the factory, including a visit to the Albert A101 four-colour mini web-offset press which, legend had it, had a 2CV propshaft stuck in it as a spare part. This is followed by a trip to the Dolphin pub, which was a regular Soman-Wherry haunt just down the road at the end of Heigham Street. Then there's a retirement presentation where Soman's long-serving typesetter Leslie is presented with a TV and a couple of table lamps by company MD William "Bill" Butler, after an impressive 50 years' service. Finally, as it seems an appropriate place to put it, there's a photo sent in by Mel Waller - a Soman-Wherry employee during the time of Nosher's placement - who had spotted these photos and as a result arranged a reunion of old staff on the last day of May in 2009. Meanwhile, the factory site has long since gone: Soman-Wherry Press  - a company formed in 1931 from the merger of A. E. Soman and The Wherry Press - was closed when production moved to BPCC Business Magazines in Colchester sometime around 1992. The buildings were then used by Aspen Windows for a while before being demolished to make way for parking space for the Renault car showroom next door.
scan-120216-0002	The factory employees gather for a send off
scan-120216-0017	Bill Butler moves in to shake hands
scan-120216-0018	Leslie the Linotype operator
scan-120216-0010	Leslie's presents on a layout table
scan-120216-0019	"Check it out" Baz does a spot of estimating
scan-120216-0020	One of the pre-press guys checks out a foil
scan-120216-0021	More pre-press
scan-120216-0013	The boys in the factory on an Albert A101 press
scan-120216-0014	The end of a Roland Favorit sheet-fed press
scan-120216-0015	More 8-page mini-web printing-press action
scan-120216-0016	Milling around by the printing press
scan-120216-0024	The other press: a Harris M110
scan-120216-0022	The dude on a Muller-Martini stitching line
scan-120216-0023	A reel of paper down in the warehouse
scan-120216-0004	Simon "Burton" Berry and Mike Perkins
scan-120216-0006	Colin Tuthill and Don Dawson
scan-120216-0005	Valerie, Big Sue and Simon
scan-120216-0011	Alan, Simon, Nosher, Fishy Herring and Adrian 
scan-120216-0012	Glasses are raised on Nosher's last day
2009_0531somansreunion0008	The Soman-Wherry Reunion, 31st May 2009 in Norwich