Our series on old York businesses and industries takes us to Boroughbridge Road, then on to Flaxby.

Ben Johnson's printworks was founded in 1880. It's works in Boroughbridge Road, York, opened in 1934 and thousands of people worked there over the next six decades.

Many of Britain's top magazines were printed there, and from the early 1980s (following a takeover by RR Donnelley) it was where the Yellow Pages and thousands of telephone directories were printed.

The company also had a stationery shop in Micklegate and a sales business, which remains in the city today, at Clifton Moor.

In 1996, the company announced it was moving to a new site Flaxby but there were substantial job losses in 2007 and then in October 2015, RR Donnelley announced the final 200 staff would lose their jobs. The plant closed for the final time on New Year's Eve, 2015.

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