I went on quite an amazing tour of St. Bride’s Foundation Institute, just by St. Bride’s Church, organised by the Victorian Society.  We started on the top floor with examples from the obviously very rich collections of books, print and printed ephemera and then went downstairs for a demonstration of type-founding and print technology.

There was a film about the production of the Daily Express in circa. 1976 showing the technical skills involved in type-setting and print production. 

I had no idea of the complexities of newspaper production, all swept away in the early 1980s before computerisation:-