Layout plan of ground floor when used as the despatch area for the Glasgow Herald

The plan above shows how the lower floors were used as production space where the newspapers where despatched from platforms open to the street. The horse-drawn carts were loaded at five bays which were at the same level as the delivery source to ensure maximum efficiency in getting the papers out to the readers.
The upper floors, which have less of an industrial feel about them, were used for the editorial and commercial side of the operation.
The Glasgow Herald was produced in Mitchell Street until 1980 when new publishing practices and modern methods of transportation and distribution made the plant obsolete.
As a working newspaper plant, the premises had been altered at various stages throughout the 20th century; as a result there were very few, if any, period furnishings to retain for its restoration.

In the 1960's I was familiar with the Editorial Department, Case Room and Wire Room when I worked as a copy boy for the Evening Times.
Before the digital revolution the quickest way for the copytakers and sub-editors to transfer information was by waving sheets of paper and shouting "..BOY!!".
My memories of the place are of grumpy old men surrounded by varnished wood, formica and linoleum, rather than Art-Noveau or anything even vaguely influenced by Mackintosh.
The Editor of the Evening Times at that time was the formidable S.L. "Sam" McKinlay and the Sports Editor was Jimmy Dunbar. On Saturdays Jimmy relied on the wee copy boys running around in a frenzy so that he could get the "Pink Times" out on the streets by 5 o'clock with all the latest football results.