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Wigan Observer Newspaper Design Awards 1966
Wigan Observer Newspaper Design Awards 1966
Photo: Colin Harlow
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Item #: 18741
The first full colour picture appeared in the Observer on the 26th August 1966, in November of that year the Wigan Observer was Judged Britain's best designed weekly paper in the annual Newspaper Design Awards. Subsequently, the paper won National acclaim and many prestigious awards for the quality of its printing, for advertising operations and for promotional presentations..infact the new Wigan Observer premises, were eagerly viewed by newspaper people from all over the country.

Comment by: David Molyneux on 1st April 2013 at 21:40

Top right leaning on rails Malcolm Dawson, Michael Toulmin,David Molyneux,Cyril Goodman,John Dickinson,Tom Calderbank ( Tom was the electrician based at Brock Mill),Bob Fishwick and Tommy Harlow. I think Michael Toulmin was somehow related to someone in the United Newspapers hierarchy and upon Googling that name discovered that someone of the same name was until recently involved with that organisation. Obviously cant be sure it is the same person.

Comment by: Colin Harlow on 8th April 2013 at 07:34

Right David, the Lancashire Evening Post founder was Mr George Toulmin, United Newspapers took over the family firm Many years ago. Other family members associated in newspapers were Maurice Toulmin and at the Wigan Observer Michael Toulmin. Apart from the LEP, George Toulmin&Sons, were also proprietors of the Preston Guardian and the Blackburn Times. The first copy of the LEP came off the Toulmin press in 1886...George Toulmin died two years later.

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