Announcing The Way of the Sun, the definitive history of the Sun 

The first ever full-length history of Sun Engraving / Sun Printers will be published in October of this year. This handsome, hard-cover book (416 pages) will contain over 300 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 history of mass-market colour printing will also find the book a good read.

If you are looking for an unusual and absorbing Christmas present, The Way of the Sun should be ideal.

Copies will be available in Croxley as well as by post. Price is £20 (plus P&P) for orders placed in advance of publication, and £22 (plus P&P) thereafter.

To reserve copies, please contact:

Shirley Greenman

130 Baldwins Lane

Croxley Green, Rickmansworth, Herts. WD3 3LJ

Tel.: 01 923 227 945

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Updates

December 2009

People: An extended update now brings us to more than 7,250 names and nearly 300 photos. We continue to receive new names and will update the People section when new numbers warrant.

Picture Gallery: "The Art of Corrie Graddon" has been added as a new section. You will find the link in the introduction to the Picture Gallery.

 

Please help us.

We are attempting to locate the coloured map of Hertfordshire that used to hang in the Sun boardroom at Whippendell Road. A historian would like to photograph it for a book. If you happen to have it or know where it ended up, please contact Peter Greenhill, either via this web site or by e-mail at thesunshines@bellnet.ca.

We are anxious to hear from anyone who remembers Norman Hewitt, who is believed to have worked for Sun Engraving just before WWII and who died early in 1940 at the age of 23. We would like to confirm that he was an employee and we are trying to obtain information on behalf of his niece.

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Sun-Related Books

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: marjack1934@hotmail.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.