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last longer than two generations though.”
Pugh & Rowlands were another major printer and have since become a part of the Trinity Mirror Group. Y Darian started The Aberdare Leader (newspaper), this was then taken over by Pugh & Rowlands and consequently the Trinity Mirror Group.
Maldwyn led the team throughout the 1950’s and 60’s and passed on his skills and knowledge to his son Gareth.
Original photo of workforce in August 1912
at S&G and later became minor shareholders.
David Stephens was working at William Wilcox then left to set up S&G with William.
Group Managing Director Andrew Jones is the great grandson of William George. William worked as a printer in Aberdare at Jenkin Howell then moved to The Weekly Press before joining David Stephens to start their own printing business.
David Stephens left the company in the 1940’s and William’s son in law Maldwyn joined the team to bring some business acumen. He became a major shareholder and the company was incorporated in 1946.
Brynley’s father was a good typographer. There were different styles between printers but Bob was tasteful, he never mixed upper and lowercase letters, never mixed fonts, his work can be easily identified.
S&G have been frontrunners when it comes to technology, even in the early days. S&G were the first print company to install electric presses and for a period of time adopted the name ‘Stephens & George the Electric Press’.
Brynley commented “there were an awful lot of printers in Aberdare as it was the major printing centre in Wales. They were responsible for printing and publishing semi- national newspapers. Most didn’t
In the late-50’s Gareth Jones joined the team, he trained at Monotype College in London, then did an apprenticeship at the Western Mail before working full time for S&G.
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