Irvine Brooks

Here are a couple of old books which featured ’Television’…. They were very common, but they had an amazing effect on me. Although I already knew what I wanted to do for my career by the age of 7, these books helped preserve the enthusiasm.

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The first was a “Daily Mail” Book For Boys 1961

“How Television Works”

Here is a “Reader’s Digest Junior Omnibus” 1958, which features TVC.

Mike Jordan

I have the famous “BBC Television Centre Handbook”, a (slightly techie) copy of “BBC Television – a British Engineering Achievement” and and last but not least “The Daily Mail Television Handbook” 1952: all fascinating stuff with quite a few pictures around studios in various “times of old”.

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