Justin Howes

So sad to hear of his early death.

I never knew him, but reading his obituary brought back so many happy memories of my life working as a child of the late 1940’s in my father’s printing works in Wood Green. It is just so sad that he died so young.

I just hope that the work he was doing will live on!

Talking of living on, we live in Newmarket and breed racehorses. Our printer has three proper Heidelbergs, lots of letter press type, a real working Columbia etc. And he does have a couple of modern litho thingies.

But he does have one slight problem. At Tattersalls he does a lot of the door cards for the racehorse sales. Basically, they are large A3 and biggers one-off posters with the lot number and the horse’s breeding. His largest letters of about 360 points now have a touch of woodworm. Still fibreglass keeps them going.