file cutting

The courtyard to the rear has three storey workshops added in 1853 which were probably used for file cutting.

Soames waited a quarter of an hour, and was then taken to an even smaller room, where a cheery-looking man in eye-glasses was turning over a book of filed cuttings.

He began work in the Daily Express library at ten shillings a week where, by his own testimony, he spent many miserable years filing cuttings in the wrong envelopes and losing reference books.