Crieff’s oldest town centre business will close its doors in Comrie Street early next month.
David Philips Printers at 16, 18 and 22 Comrie Street has been sold to the neighbouring Care Dental Practice and Mr Philips will hand over the keys of his long-established properties to Dr Bruce Strickland on September 10.
Mr and Mrs Philips will continue to live above in Herald House, number 20 Comrie Street.
The well-known Philips family has a history spanning four generations in publishing, printing, retail stationery and the media generally and, until they passed on the title to what is now Trinity Newspapers, produced the Strathearn Herald every single week for almost 129 years.
Recently the firm’s magnificent antique Cossar newspaper printing press a machine which had printed Crieff’s local paper since 1907 was donated to National Museums Scotland.
The machine featured in an episode of Dr Finlay’s Casebook, when it rolled out an edition of the fictional Knoxhill and Tannochbrae Advertiser.
The 10-tonne press, the only working example still in existence, was removed piece by piece from the Comrie Street premises and taken to a Clydeside warehouse close to the former home of its inventor, Tom Cossar, of the Govan Press.