Typewriters at dawn

Sep 7 2007

WE'VE spoken before about Lord Mayor Randal Brew and his time as an accountant at the Post and Mail in the 1960s. The latest memory he recalled for Hancock were the days when rival journalists on the Birmingham Mail and Birmingham Post, working different shifts, would brazenly steal each others' typewriters. "It got so bad," said Randal, "that most typewriters ended up chained to individuals' desks." Nothing changes, because there are still regular equipment wars on the editorial floor... only these days it's reporters fighting over missing computer mice!