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in Norwich, and one of these, dated 1586, from the collection of the late 
Lord Amherst of Hackney, may be seen in that section of the Bridewell 
Museum devoted to printing, which also exhibits a reproduction of his 
Perpetual Calendar, published in 1562. ‘The Colman Library at Carrow 
possesses another book dated 1580. 
Solempne moved from St. Andrew’s parish to a house at the corner of 
Dove Street and the Maddermarket, later the Edinburgh Tavern, which 
collapsed in 1898 following a serious fire in adjacent premises. 
After Solempne there was a lapse of a century, until Francis Burges 
or Burgess revived the art at the ‘Red Well,’ also in St. Andrew’s 
parish. He died in 1706, and his principal publication appears to have 
been ‘ Some Observations on the Use and Origin of the Noble Art and 
Mystery of Printing’; but he was also the printer of the Norwich Post, 
a weekly newspaper, which appears to have started about 1700 and was 
continued by his administrators after his death. ‘To-day the principal 
city newspapers are Norwich Mercury (1721), Norfolk News (1845), 
Eastern Daily Press (1870), and Eastern Evening News (1882). ‘The Norfolk 
Chronicle, a county newspaper, originated in Norwich in 1761. 
In the present day, the printing trade of Norwich plays no unimportant 
part in the industry of the city. It has its Master Printers’ Association 
(which includes Fakenham, Bungay, and Beccles), embracing thirty-three 
printing houses of varying importance, and of these Norwich itself is 
responsible for seventeen. These thirty-three houses employ nearly 
600 men and 400 women and girls. 
Norwich is the ‘ Head Office ’ as it were for many sections of trade and 
industry, as indicated in this chapter. Consequently the demands on 
the printing industry are usually well maintained, and this in spite of 
the fact that the competition of the Metropolis and the Midlands is very 
keen. 
Whilst being able to boast of its own publishing houses, Norwich is not 
behindhand in the quality of its artistic advertising literature. Its output 
consists of text-books, novels, trade catalogues, and colour work of every 
description. The city also possesses publicity and advertising houses, 
copy writers and lay-out experts, and artists who have been, and still are, 
responsible for the creation of some fine examples of poster work, 
Much good work is done at the Norwich Technical College, where 
both practical and theoretical typography is taught. 
(f) FLOUR MILLING 
As befits an agricultural community, milling is an ancient industry in 
Norfolk. Roman and Saxon querns and early millstones preserved in 
the Norwich Museums support its antiquity. In the Milling Section of 
the Bridewell Museum of Local Crafts, the progress of the industry 
through its primitive stages to the windmill is typified by the exhibits. 
Particular interest attaches to the section devoted to windmills, which, 
at one time a prominent feature of the Norfolk landscape, are now fast 
