Goss Printing Presses
A works which started as a foundary and became a printing press manufacturer has been in Greenbank Street for around 170 years (since 1835).
Joseph Clayton built the Soho Foundary to make steam boilers in 1835. In 1887 it was taken over by Joseph Foster and Sons a printing machine maker. In 1935 Goss took over the factory.
The factory had the reputation of having highly skilled workforce, as producing printing presses was precision work. However the workforce declined from about 1000 to 350 in 2006. Early in 2006 the closure of the factory was announced by Goss International.