
Cub Reporter
The Accrington Observer
Irvine Hunt(Author)
Irvine Hunt (Publisher)
Published on 8. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
158 pages
978-0-9575338-1-3 (ISBN)
Description
A huddle of journalists was busily hammering at their typewriters the morning Irvine Hunt joined the Accrington Observer as a cub reporter in the heart of industrial Lancashire.
A crumpled wire waste paper basket awaited on one side of his desk and a potted lanky geranium on the other.
Two exciting years followed. Its half-a-dozen reporters covered everything from gruesome inquests to numbing blizzards, from Ladies' Bright Hours to a store ablaze in the heart of the little Lancashire town.
And there were the happy surprises. The contacts, the musician friends, two of whom became world famous. And the 30-shilling-a-week girl reporter who applied for an Observer job when still in her gymslip, who couldn't spell, but who went on to become a successful publisher.
Cub Reporter embraces a much-liked family newspaper, in which every name in print was expected to sell a copy, an era familiar to every reporter who ever compiled funeral lists of floral tributes in the days of hot type.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
214 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9575338-1-3 (9780957533813)
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