Postcards now being printed ....

5,000 postcards will be arriving next Thursday.  Designed to highlight our trail and explain a little about our time travel and story they will be available from the library and museum in town. Here's the front:                                                               

  The background is a map of Chelmsford town, right where our trail features, from the 1940's, the image is a radio mast sculpture created by Lucy & Abigail during one of our workshops and the stamp is a penny black (one of many discoveries we made on our time travels).

The curly typeface is 'Snell Roundhand, created in 1965 but  based on the handwriting of a 17th Century English writing master Charles Snell. The larger block of writing is in a typeface called 'Century Schoolbook' designed in 1919 by a chap called Morris Fuller Benton. Morris was asked to create a new typeface which was easy to read for school books. You might remember it way back when you where in reception - or earlier because Century Schoolbook is used in the 'Spot' books by Eric Hill. The last typeface on the postcard is 'Times New Roman' which was designed by Amanda Gulotta for the 'The Times' newspaper in 1931.

and the back:

  

Typeface: Century Schoolbook, map designed by Elaine Tribley, Springfield Time Travellers logo designed by Charlie Hands.