I-Spy Road making ; News Chronicle I-Spy Book No. 33, c1955
The British Liberal newspaper, the News Chronicle was originally formed from a merger of the Daily News and the Daily Chronicle in 1930 and was financially backed by the Cadbury family. It was to be taken over by the right wing Daily Mail in 1960 after sales suffered due to an anti-Suez view held editorially by the paper.
However, the paper is likely best recalled by people of a certain age, such as me, for the long running "I-Spy Club" where you could fill in details of 'spots' in a series of booklets such as this and send when completed to Big Chief I-Spy at the News Chronicle Wigwam for your Certificate of Merit. You could also join the club and get a badge amonst other things. The booklets covered a wide range of everyday sights from nature, to institutions, to industrial activities.
Yes, I was a member and looking back I thing it helped foster an inquistiveness in me that actually helped me end up in the career I did! It allowed me to ask questions, and study, and find things out about the world around me and fo me, I-Spy Roadmaking, Road Transport, On A Train Journey, On the Road, In the Street and In London were simply fascinating!
This is the cover of the Roadmaking, full of diggers, bulldozers pnematic drills - even fitting reflective Cats-Eyes! It is credited to artist or designer "Ovenden" and shows a small bulldozer known as a Calfdozer!
I-Spy Road making ; News Chronicle I-Spy Book No. 33, c1955
The British Liberal newspaper, the News Chronicle was originally formed from a merger of the Daily News and the Daily Chronicle in 1930 and was financially backed by the Cadbury family. It was to be taken over by the right wing Daily Mail in 1960 after sales suffered due to an anti-Suez view held editorially by the paper.
However, the paper is likely best recalled by people of a certain age, such as me, for the long running "I-Spy Club" where you could fill in details of 'spots' in a series of booklets such as this and send when completed to Big Chief I-Spy at the News Chronicle Wigwam for your Certificate of Merit. You could also join the club and get a badge amonst other things. The booklets covered a wide range of everyday sights from nature, to institutions, to industrial activities.
Yes, I was a member and looking back I thing it helped foster an inquistiveness in me that actually helped me end up in the career I did! It allowed me to ask questions, and study, and find things out about the world around me and fo me, I-Spy Roadmaking, Road Transport, On A Train Journey, On the Road, In the Street and In London were simply fascinating!
This is the cover of the Roadmaking, full of diggers, bulldozers pnematic drills - even fitting reflective Cats-Eyes! It is credited to artist or designer "Ovenden" and shows a small bulldozer known as a Calfdozer!