The Isle of Man Examiner Offices and Printing Works, (Rosebery Buildings), Victoria Street, Douglas

These premises, situate in Victoria Street, Ridgeway Street, and John street. Douglas. have been erected in order to cope with the increasing printing and publishing business of S. K. Broadbent & Company Limited. The buildings have been erected from the plans of Mr Armitage Rigby architect, by Mr. Mark Carine. There are laid down in the building several new and costly English and American machines, and the office is equipped with the most modern printing plant.

The Rosebery Buildings, it may be mentioned, have been erected upon what is undoubtedly the finest site in Douglas—viz., that at the junction of Victoria-street, Ridgeway-street, and Nelson-street, for Messrs Broadbent, by Mr M. Carine, to the plans of Mr A. Rigby. The building is of simple yet handsome elevation and is noteworthy in that in its construction Manx granite from the Dhoon quarries has been freely employed, this being the first occasion upon which native granite has been used in connection with the erection of a building in Douglas. On Saturday, the guests of the directors first went into the spacious, well ventilated, and superbly lighted composing room, which occupies the uppermost storey of the building. The store and stock rooms were then glanced at, and then a move was made to the machine room which occupies the whole of the basement. Here the formal opening of the new " Lancashire " web printing machine which has been erected by Messrs T. CouIthard and Co., of Preston, for the more rapid printing of the Examiner took place. This great web machine is the first which has been erected and printed from in the Isle of Man, and much curiosity was evinced as to the working of the leviathan. This curiosity was soon satisfied, as Mr Broadbent (chairman of Messrs S. K. Broadbent and Co.) in a few words requested Mrs Cubbon, wife of Mr William Cubbon, a director of the company, to start and name the machine. Mrs Cubbon then moved the starting lever, and announced that she named the machine "Maggie." Copies of the Examiner poured from the machine at a tremendous rate for the next quarter-hour,