Scotland's Printing Heritage

St Bride’s Wayzegoose 2025

Date: Sun 27 Apr 2025

The annual St Bride Foundation Wayzegoose will take place on Sunday 27th April 2025, from 11:00 – 16:00. Explore numerous stalls selling letterpress supplies, type and ornaments, paper, printed items, second-hand books and type specimens and there will of course be cake! For more details see the St Bride Foundation website.

Did you know?

The printing works of Thomas Nelson & Sons at Hope Park Crescent was destroyed by fire on the night of 10 April 1878. The firm were allowed to set up temporary works on the Meadows which their new factory at Parkside was being built. Columns at the east end of Melville Drive were erected by the company to thank the City of Edinburgh for their support.