Printed from flattened grocery cartons.

As a student, one summer I worked as a ‘cardboard box stripper’ at Boxfoldia in Birmingham where these boxes were first made. It was claimed that the process was invented by the factory owner Charles Henry Foyle, whose brother founded Foyles bookshop in London, though it would seem that very similar production methods were also being used in France and in the United States. The boxes were printed and the outline perforated then the ‘cardboard box strippers’ would take a pile and using a hammer knock off the waste. It was piece work’ and I earned every penny!