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RefNoKHAC5/5778/2/2
AltRefNo5778/2/2
TitleOne folder of papers relating to the retirement of Miss Jacob from the Hunts Post, and her Happy 80th Birthday card
DescriptionIncludes a black and white photograph and negativeof the Hunts Post staff in the 1960s; reference for Miss Mary Elizabeth Jacob by G.A. Smith, Editor of the Hunts Post, 7 June 1957; leaving card signed by the staff of the Hunts Post, 1976; one photograph of Miss Jacob's leaving party, with a packet of negatives; letter from Lawrence Bly of Huntingdon District Council regretting the retirement of Mrs Betty Storer, December 1976; 80th birthday card from the Hunts Post with Frith photographs of Huntingdon in the 1950s.
All but one of the staff members in the black and white photograph have been identified as follows:
Cecil Taylor (advertising representative), Rosamund Jones (advertising department), Gordon Brown (reporter), Angela Day (advert. dept.), Don Talbot (reporter), Rosemary Fuge (advert. dept.), David Wakefield (reporter), Betty Jacob (reporter), Eric Peacock (advert. dept.), Joyce Milton (advert. dept.), John Clark (sports editor), unknown lady, Philip Norman (reporter), Janet Blackman (advert. dept.), Michael Deaves (reporter), Clive Brown (deputy editor), Kate Gurney (office manager), Fred Johnson (editor), Janet Baker (assistant office manager). The photograph must date from between 1962-1965 - Philip Norman joined the Sunday Times in 1965, aged 22, after beginning his journalistic career on the Hunts Post, where he was a reporter for three years.
Date1950s-1976
CreatorNameThe Jacob Family
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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