Imperial Chemical Industries People - Paul Daniels, Richard Beeching, James W. Black, John Heydon Stokes, M. S. Bartlett, Richard Fort (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Paul Daniels, Richard Beeching, James W. Black, John Heydon Stokes, M. S. Bartlett, Richard Fort, Tom McKillop, Fraser Stoddart, George E. P. Box, Edmund Dell, Trevor Kletz, Sir Max Muspratt, 1st Baronet, Frank Lees, Peter Beazley, Michael Perrin, Steve Barnhart, Sir Frank Ewart Smith, Robin Batterham, David Zeidler, Charles Suckling, Andrew Rae Duncan, Norvela Forster, John Rose, Philip Mayne, Richard Inwood, Joseph Chatt, John Barnes, Raymond Peters. Excerpt: Paul Daniels, born Newton Edward Daniels on 6 April 1938, is a British magician and television performer. He achieved international fame through his television series The Paul Daniels Magic Show, which ran on the BBC from 1979 to 1994. Daniels was born at 51 North Street in South Bank, Middlesbrough, the son of Handel Newton Daniels and Nancy Lloyd. Handel (known as Hugh) was a cinema projectionist at the Hippodrome Theatre and a former worker at Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Wilton. During World War II, Daniels was evacuated to the Helmsley area. After Sir William Turners Grammar School on Coatham Road in Coatham, Redcar (now the Redcar & Cleveland College Connections Campus on Corporation Road) and his first job as a junior clerk in the treasurer's office of Eston council, Daniels served as a conscript in the 1st Battalion, The Green Howards, during his National Service and was posted to the British garrison in Hong Kong, before training as an accountant in the Civil Service. Even at this early age he had thinning hair which he claimed to be an act of 'magic'. Daniels later sported a wig for much of his television career. After working as a junior clerk and then as an auditor in local government Daniels joined his parents in the grocery business they were running at the time. He later set up his own shop - at one point a mobile shop - but eventually ga...