Updates
2012 Sun Reunion
When: Wednesday, July 11, 6:30 p.m.
Where: Croxley Green Royal British Legion
Get details from: Jack Clarke, 20 Haddon Close, Wellingborough, Northants. NN8 5ZB, UK.
Tel: 01 933 403 898 E-mail: ciderapple6193@gmail.com
Always a great evening! Mark your calendars!
OBITUARY - JACK GARRATT [posted February 1, 2012]
We greatly regret to announce the death of Jack Garratt, on January 31, just five months short of his 100th birthday.
Jack was a generous provider of information for this web site and for the new book The Way of the Sun, and with his passing we have lost a good friend and the only contact we have had whose memories went back to pre-Sun days in Watford, as recorded in the book.
We offer his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren our heartfelt condolences.
People pages
As of April 2011, the People pages of this web site were further expanded and updated. Please make sure that you are listed and that your information is correct.
Watch for another update in early 2012.
Please help us. [posted March 2011]
We are trying to trace any or all of the following Sun retouchers who were working there about 1952 in the Mono Retouching Department:
Dennis Markwick, Keith Dennett, Jimmy Rolfe.
If you know how they can be reached, please contact Peter Greenhill, either via this web site or by e-mail at thesunshines@bellnet.ca.
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Sun-Related Books
The Way of the Sun, the definitive history of the Sun
The first ever full-length history of Sun Engraving / Sun Printers was published in October, 2010. This handsome, hard-cover book (416 pages) contains hundreds of photographs in both colour and black & white, many never before published. The book will be of great interest to former employees, their families, relatives, and friends. Those interested in Watford's history or the influence of the Sun on the development of mass-market colour printing will also find the book informative.
Copies are available in Croxley (see below) as well as by post. Price is £22 (plus P&P where necessary). Contact:
Shirley Greenman
130 Baldwins Lane
Croxley Green, Rickmansworth, Herts. WD3 3LJ
Tel.: 01 923 227 945
Life in the Sun
Peter Hollick writes about Jack Clarke’s life at Sun Printers and Jack’s fight for the return of the pension funds raided by Robert Maxwell. Copies available for £8.99, plus £1 for postage and packing, from Jack Clarke, 20 Haddon Close, Wellingborough, Northants. NN8 5ZB, UK. Tel.: 01-933-403-898 E-mail: ciderapple6193@gmail.com
Charles Chaplin, 1907-1987: Artist, Engraver, Printmaker
The story of Sun engraver Charles Chaplin, by his son Jon Chaplin. Profusely illustrated with Charles Chaplin’s engravings. Copies available for £26.50, including postage and packaging, from Oblong Creative Ltd., 416B Thorp Arch Estate, Wetherby LS23 7BJ, UK.