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Ninety seconds on Featherbed Alley Printshop
Watching a volunteer ink the type and pull a sheet on the replica press is the reason to go down to this cellar. Check that someone is on duty before you go.
The room holds a replica of the press Gutenberg built and, around it, early editions of the Bermuda Gazette. Among them is a copy of the second edition, issued on Saturday, 24 January 1784.
Look for the barred window, brought here from the town's old jail, and the silhouette of Frances, daughter of Joseph Stockdale, the island's first printer. This room was the house's service quarters, never a working printshop. Stockdale's own house is on Printer's Alley, privately owned and seen only from the lane.
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