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Incorporating Sangorski & Sutcliffe Est.1901
IMPORTANT CHANGES TO OUR LOCATIONS from July 1st 2008
Our bindery in Great Guildford St is now closed and we are in a temporary space prior to relocating to Rochester Row in the Autumn.
Our new address is Unit 1, Rudolf Place (off Miles St), London SW8 1RP
Telephone number 020 7620 0060
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Major Re-organisation
This summer we are undertaking a major re-organisation of our business. It involves some important changes to our premises and a simplification of our trading names.
From now on we will be trading as SHEPHERDS, Sangorski & Sutcliffe and from September we will be operating out of just two of our original premises;
Rochester Row and Southampton Row.
Rochester Row will house our bindery and will be fronted by a small shop where customers can bring work and purchase products made in our workshop.
Our fine bindery and bookselling business will also be run from Rochester Row, and will continue to trade as Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Southampton Row (formerly Falkiner Fine Papers) will also now trade under the name SHEPHERDS and continue to sell our comprehensive range of papers, stationery and bookbinding materials.
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The Reasons For Change
We have had a shop and bindery in Rochester Row for over twenty years and our bindery in Great Guildford St for ten years. It is no longer practical to run parallel workshops and by consolidating our binderies under one roof we will be able to offer a much more efficient service.
Shepherds was founded in 1988 in Rochester Row, Victoria and the business has grown steadily. In 1998 we bought two of London’s oldest binderies, Sangorski & Sutcliffe (est. 1901) and Zaehnsdorf (est.1842). In 2003 we made a further acquisition, Falkiner Fine Papers. That’s a lot of names!
We had three premises in London; a shop and bindery in Rochester Row, SW1, a large bindery in Great Guildford St, SE1, and a shop in Southampton Row, WC1(Falkiner Fine Papers).
Three premises and four names – confusing even for us!
Instead of three premises, we will have just two locations; Rochester Row and Southampton Row. We will also no longer use the names Zaehnsdorf or Falkiner Fine Papers.
These measures will enable us to offer a clearer and more efficient service to our customers.
Summer Building Works
On the 25th June we gave up our lease at our Great Guildford workshop and moved our bindery into a temporary space in Vauxhall for three months. We also moved our smaller bindery out of Rochester Row in preparation for a major refurbishment of the premises. The shop at Rochester Row will remain open during building works but on a restricted basis.
Once the building work at Rochester Row is completed, we will move our whole bindery back there in the Autumn.
We look forward to welcoming all our customers, old and new, back to where we started in 1988. Our bindery in Rochester Row will be a unique centre of craftsmanship, one of the few places in Central London where things are still made by hand on the premises by real craftsmen. |
