Record pressing plant in Digbeth – Graham Dunning, a Manchester-based artist soon to take up a residency at The Rea Garden on Floodgate Street, puts an appeal on the Birmingham History Forum for information about the old Record Pressing Plant that used to be on The Rea Garden’s site:
Much of my work deals with sound. As it happens, the site was formerly a record pressing plant and there are shards of shellac from old records scattered all over the site. I’m planning on using these to make sounds with.
Anyway, to get to my point, I wondered if anyone had any more info on the pressing plant. Does anyone know of anybody who worked there I could talk to? I understand that it was owned by Philips but not sure if that’s correct. Basically I want to find out all the info I can about that part of the site’s history but, to be honest I’ve no idea where to start! Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated. I’ll be at the site which will be open to the public every Friday from 25th June. Feel free to pop in for a chat.
Can anyone help him?
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