An historic photo, circa 1976 from the ramshackle premises of the much missed Tyneside Free Press Workshop in Charlotte Square, Newcastle, where early editions of IRON Magazine were printed.
A remarkably hirsute IRON editor Peter Mortimer checks out the copies before trimming them on the wonderful cast iron guillotine whose wheel (visible on the photo) was revolved by hand.
On the right is assistant editor Peta Hemmings, who was also then his partner and whose loons width make Peter's own versions look quite conservative. Peta went on to marry the IRON magazine art editor Geoff Laws, and they now live in Jesmond.
