m. 25 May 1859
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 | The Simpson Family Father Robert and sons Robert A and Jospeph; Linotype printers of South Shields. Their portraits and signatures are overlaid on a front page of their newspaper "The Free Press" |
 | “The Linotype” A limited edition hard bound volume (1901) advertising and celebrating the spread of the Linotype Composing Machine to newspaper producers around the United Kingdom. Pages featured front pages of over 200 periodicals overlaid with portraits of their proprietors. |
 | Ingham Place, Newcastle upon Tyne LEFT: Ingham Place from old map 1861. The Simpson family lived in a house behind the Ingham Place terrace
RIGHT: Google maps view of the same area 2013. Now redeveloped as part of an industrial estate. |
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