Allan Lynch
1999/79 Allan Lynch, interviewed in his home in Edinburgh by Heather Holmes on 20 May 1999.
000 As a miscellaneous binder you came into contact with many departments.
045 Hierarchy between departments
096 Being at Nelsons and not being a Nelsonian125 Apprentices in the bindery, methods of teaching
161 Chapping books and learning to handle paper
217 Would get one or two apprentices at the time
232 Work of apprentices and work of a miscellaneous binder
285 No variation in production apart from miscellaneous binder
290 Grey board and straw board
311 One of the worst jobs were art books and jointing by hand.
350 Description of hand binding and problems with hand binding.
397 Colouring of books
417 Colours running if cigs not bound tightly enough.
432 Dyes and making up of dyes, most dyes used as vegetable dyes.
470 Description of gilding. Raw materials low during war years. Gild did not stick with some raw materials used in inter war years
580 End.