Fodor's Expert Review Robert Smail's Printing Works

Innerleithen Factory

Try your hand at printing the way it used to be done: painstakingly setting each letter by hand. Robert Smail's print shop, founded in 1866 to produce materials for nearby factories, boat tickets, theater posters, and the local newspaper, is still a working print shop as well as a museum. Two great waterwheels once powered the presses, and they are still running. The guided tour, which includes making your own bookmark, takes 90 minutes.

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Quick Facts

7–9 High St.
EH44 6HA, Scotland

01896-830206

www.nts.org.uk

Sight Details:
Rate Includes: £7, Closed Tues., Wed., Sun., and Nov.–Mar.

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