Type Archive

The buildings were once occupied by Price & King’s veterinary medicine and quarantine station, sometimes housing baby elephants.

The company had continuous orders for matrices and machine parts since it began operations from the Stockwell site.

An exhibition featuring the calligraphic work of Icelandic artist and handwriting expert, Gunnlaugur SE Briem, opened in June 2018, closing in mid-July that year.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the unrelated death of founder Susan Shaw (1932-2020[12]) made access particularly difficult for staff, volunteers, and researchers from March 2020.

An unsigned note on The Type Archive’s website, posted in mid-2022, said the site would be relinquished and collections moved.

Gerry Drayton, the last surviving teacher of the Monotype School (96 years of age in 2020), behind a Monotype machine at the Type Archive Museum, photograph made in 2006.
The extensive Monotype holdings of the archive were arrayed in huge vaults, including this portion full of Monotype hot-metal casting machines.