Wayzgoose: excursions, sports and socials in the printing industry

This exhibition recounts the extraordinarily vibrant community life of those who worked in the printing industry and associated trades – papermaking, publishing and bookselling – in Scotland in the twentieth century. It records the activities of various sporting clubs associated with those trades and details the tradition of the annual works day away for whole families or, in the case of the paper mill villages, whole communities. It covers gala and sports days organised by owners or by unions or by the workers themselves. The exhibition contains a number of exhibits, information posters, and an AV display using home movie footage of those who worked in these industries.

Exhibition Venues

Napier University: 7th -21st January

Heriot Watt University: 14th February - 7th March

Montrose Public Library: 8th March - 1st April

Penicuik Public Library: 14th April - 2nd May

Aberdeen Public Library: 9th May - 2nd June

Queen Margaret University: 4th - 15th August