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Meet the Halifax bookbinder helping to keep his craft alive

“When I was 16 I really wanted to go to art college,” he says. “I had a bit of flair for art but my parents couldn’t afford to send me to art school so it was more a question of going out to find work.” Which is exactly what he did, spending six years as an apprentice at Edward Mortimer’s, a bookbinder in Halifax. “It was the closest thing I could find to being creative,” says Stephen.