Moss, in his History, p. 145 (1824), writes : "Proceeding westward from High Street, we come into George Street, in which is situate the Workhouse." This is shewn in Powell's plan on page 115. Now 42, George Street, once the Literary Institution (1831), and Ransom's Printing Office under, and the Laboratory of the Education Department. The late Mr. William Ransom, but for whose encouragement with that of my late friend, Thomas Brandon Brett, this work might not have been thought of, was a printer.
His father coming from Battle as a printer, began business in George
Afterwards George Street.
(Sketched by the late John Goldsworthy Shorter, the Delineator of Stell's and Barry's Guides.)
It was known as "Mrs. Bodle's House."
Street about 1819. He died in 1855, when the business devolved upon his son William. The late Mr. Brett and the writer, also old printers and newspaper men, used to exchange notes on the progress in the methods and machinery in the printing trade during the
