The National Printing Heritage Trust was formed at a meeting 25 years ago today in Chester. Its main focus is preserving the machines, equipment and materials to promote understanding of how printing was done in the past. More recently the Trust has concetrated on securing items of significant printing machinery and equipment that were in danger of disappearing and assisting museum curators with the care of printing artefacts in their possession.
The Scottish Printing Archival Trust has benefitted from generous support from the NPHT in their efforts to raise the funds to save the 1907 Crieff Cossar Press from scrap. It has been taken into the collections of National Museums Scotland, and placed in temporary storage in Govan, near its inventor’s childhood home, to be reconstructed. It has now been rebuilt and will move to the National Museums Collections Centre in Edinburgh once current development plans are in place.