Horders is a fourth generation family-run commercial printing and retail business on Thornbury High Street, offering a wide selection of print services including photocopying, stationery and office supplies. We also have a large greeting card department and arts and crafts.
Our artwork and design a complete and comprehensive service for all your marketing and promotional materials.
Whether you've already got a brief or are starting from scratch, we're here to help with every stage of the design process.
We pride ourselves on the quality of our work and value for money from small one off orders to large runs and contract work.
If you're not sure what you want, or even where to start - pop along to our shop base in Thornbury, Bristol and we can talk through all the options we can offer.
Our own skilled staff, high-tech equipment and close working relationships with commercial printers, enable us to cope with virtually any print assignment. From a short run of colour business cards, letterheads, compliment slips, invoices, invitations and funeral order of service etc (which is all carried out in-house) through to the most ambitious full colour, fully illustrated, brochure with a five figure print run.
We understand the important role that your printed stationery plays in projecting your corporate image. So with our graphic designer and wide range of ink colours and paper stock, we can provide the perfect and unique image for your company.
We also offer: A4/A3 black & white or colour photocopying & printing, digital building plan printing up to A1, colour poster & photo printing up to A1, scanning & laminating up to A3, comb and wire binding all usually the same day. We can also order rubber stamps and printed address labels to be ready within a week.
We pride ourselves on the quality of our work and value for money from small one off orders to large runs and contract work.
Our KODAK Picture Kiosk lets you make prints and enlargements in just seconds. You can make prints from your Apple or Android phone, digital camera card, USB memory stick, CD/DVD or bluetooth from your camera phone. Print 6x4, 7x5 or 8x6 photos in seconds.
Once you have uploaded your pictures onto our KODAK Picture Kiosk, you can improve your pictures with quick and easy edits like zoom and crop. Reduce redeye in just seconds. Restore colour to old photos. Turn a colour photo into a black and white or even sepia print.
Get creative by selecting from many colourful borders for your pictures. Make cards, birth announcements, and invitations. You can also personalise your pictures by adding text. The possibilities are almost endless.
We stock 100s of everyday essential stationery items in our shop; everything for the school, office and home from pens, paper, envelopes, post and packaging goods, filing solutions, diaries and account books through to inkjet cartridges and computer consumables.
We also offer a ordering service on over 20,000 office based products. Listed are just some of the categories of items we can supply: paper & envelopes, writing & graphic supplies, office essentials, office machines & consumables, desktop accessories, computer supplies, filing storage & record systems, conference & presentation, furniture & interiors. Collect in-store or delivery can be arranged if required.
We stock a large selection of greeting cards from birthday, congratulations to sympathy cards, blank, humorous and age cards, gift wrap and bows; something to suit everyone. Thornbury's number one card shop, we think so and so do a lot of our regular customers.
We have everything you need for painting, drawing and craft within our wide range of artist materials, including a larger selection of arts & crafts for kids.
We provide the Winsor & Newton range of finest artist materials: Cotmans water colours, Winton oil colours, artistic acrylic colours, designers gouache colours, as well as drawing inks, brushes, water colour paper, oil paper, canvas boards and water colour sets; everything for the budding or experienced artist.
The business now known as Horders Thornbury Press is, in fact, a continuation of the business founded by Albert Prewett around 1900 as printers, newsagents and general stationers. Mr Prewett retired in 1936 and the shop was taken over by his daughter, Madge, and her husband Percy Horder.
The print side of the business was carried on by the Prewett’s son, Alex, who was eventually taken up with war work after 1939. Thereafter, this side of the business fell into decline until he died in 1970.
In 1972 the business was resurrected by David Horder and his wife, Betty, who modernised the facility by disposing of the original letterpress system and installing offset litho presses. With no customer base it was a long struggle to get established once again.
The present owner is the founder’s great-grandson, Mike Horder and a long with his wife, Lisa, continues to modernise and improve both the shop and the printing department, aided by excellent staff.
All is now well despite the impact of out-of-town shops and internet shopping. There is a good customer base, mainly small local businesses, but also some multi-nationals. Albert Prewett would be proud to see his business going into the next century.
Picture: Albert Prewett (foreground) in the print room c1913 operating an Arab platen letter press printing machine which was driven by a gas engine via the overhead pulley system.