Daily Mail "I-Spy" book number 9 : I Spy in the street : Daily Mail, London : 1961
The News Chronicle's "I-Spy Tribe", complete with Big Chief I-Spy awards certificates and orders of merit for successfully completed I-Spy books, was a popular past time for many children in post-WW2 years. In many ways it was books such as these that helped foster my childhood inquisitiveness! Although the books and name changed hands on many occassions, including the transfer of the Chronicle to the Daily Mail, the actual premise and books of the title carried on into this century, latterly published by Michelin.
This book, number 9, was issued just after the Daily Mail's acquisition of the Chronicle in 1961. "I-Spy in the street" has a fabulous cover complete with a fire tender, road signs of the style adopted by several central London boroughs, and a Policeman with a very early 'walkie-talkie' radio!
Daily Mail "I-Spy" book number 9 : I Spy in the street : Daily Mail, London : 1961
The News Chronicle's "I-Spy Tribe", complete with Big Chief I-Spy awards certificates and orders of merit for successfully completed I-Spy books, was a popular past time for many children in post-WW2 years. In many ways it was books such as these that helped foster my childhood inquisitiveness! Although the books and name changed hands on many occassions, including the transfer of the Chronicle to the Daily Mail, the actual premise and books of the title carried on into this century, latterly published by Michelin.
This book, number 9, was issued just after the Daily Mail's acquisition of the Chronicle in 1961. "I-Spy in the street" has a fabulous cover complete with a fire tender, road signs of the style adopted by several central London boroughs, and a Policeman with a very early 'walkie-talkie' radio!