Hot Off The Press – New Pages This Week

From South Shields to St. Lucia, from Carmerthan to Canada, we have added 155,351 brand new pages To collect this week, there are more than 180 years of headlines. Also, we have updated Eighteen of our current titlesAlong with covering our regional titles from England, Scotland and Wales, along with covering some of our international titles from Canada and Caribbean.

So read for more information about our updated titles of the week, as well as to learn about bombing in a newspaper premises South shields during World War IIAnd how the newspaper still made it to print the next day.

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Our biggest update of the week is Holds the daily gazetteIn which we have added an incredible 64,382 new pages This week. Established in February 1849 North and South Shields Gazette and Northern and Durham advertiser Glasgow merchant James Stevenson, who moved into a tincide five years ago to become a partner in Jaro Chemical Works, the newspaper initially appeared every week.

In 1854, Stevenson’s son James Kochran Stevenson handled the newspaper to run, and in 1855, he introduced a daily evening version two days after the cancellation of newspaper stamp duty. GazetteThe price of which is only one half -bipl. Holds the daily gazetteTherefore, the first provincial evening newspaper in the country became a newspaper, and its weekly version was eventually closed.

Liberal in your politics, Holds the daily gazette The massive ‘North and South Shields, Jaro, Newcastle-on-Tin, Sunderland, Seham, Belleeth, The Hartlepuls, The Stockton, Whitbi, and typically broadcast in ports at the ports on the North-East coast.’ Now titled GazetteThese newspapers are still published today.

Newspaper for its North East of England hit this week, we have added new pages Stockton and Billingam Herald and Post,

There is another big update of the week 25,000 brand new pages We have added Birmingham Weekly MercuryWhich was established from 1924 to 1999 to 1884, and initially its conservative in politics, Birmingham Weekly Mercury Every Saturday appeared and ‘complete and adequate reports … of local and general news, with stories, drawings and pictures.

The newspaper was resumed on 29 December 1918 Sunday MercuryTo transfer your publication day to become a Sunday newspaper. It was edited by John Turner Fearon (1869–1937), who left the Dublin newspaper Freeman Journal To play the role. A tabloid newspaper, Sunday Mercury It continues to be published today.

Meanwhile, we have updated more for some of our other Birmingham titles this week, joining the new pages. Evening remittance, Birmingham Mail And Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, Also for Birmingham based sports title Sports argus,

Looking forward, we have almost added 10,000 new pages One of our Caribbean titles this week, ie Mirror (Trinidad and Tobago)Published in the port in Spain on 1 January 1898, the newspaper was edited by RR Mol and was sub-edited by HD Karutors, who had the best reporter and shorthand writer and actually within the West Indies in Trinidad.

The cost of two shillings, and filling eight pages, mirror ‘No political belief,’ and ‘neither Catholic nor Protestant’ claimed. Completely independent, this newspaper was published twice a week and special attention was paid to shipping intelligence, which was reporting on the passengers and ships coming from the country. meanwhile, mirror A well -informative account of life is shown on the island of Trinidad, named ‘Trinidad Day Ki Din’.

We have added with new pages mirrorWe have also updated two of its fellow Caribbean titles, Colonial standard and jamaication remittance And this Saint lucia’s voiceWe have also updated another international titles, Otawa free press,

We have not ignored Scotland or Wales this week, the new pages include Scottish titles Gallow News and Kirkudbrightshire advertiserAnd Welsh title Carrier magazine, Our last updated over of note is 16,000 new pages Who has joined Kent Messenger and Gravesand TelegraphWhich spreads for years from 1913 to 1969.

October 1941 – Holds the daily gazette Bombing

The city of South Shields was repeatedly attacked by German Luftwaf during World War II, its industries made it a target of bombing raids. The 2 October 1940 bombing raid was a particular cruel, killing 67 and more than 1,600 people became homeless, as the bombs rained in the northeast of England, was killing other goals in Newcastle, North Shields, Jaro, Sunderland, Whitley Bay and Hebburn.

One of the hits to be hit in October 1941 was the printing and publishing office on the South Shields. Holds the daily gazetteIn which we have added new pages this week. These new pages show how the people of South Shields and North Shields continued to receive their local newspapers after printing and publication offices in both cities that were dropped out of action in one night air strike. ,

The report appeared on 29 October 1941, and although when the printing offices were hit, no real date is involved, it can be emphasized that the bomb damage was done on 2 October 1940, when the city was killed very badly by German bombing. Any report of bomb damage on the house front was to be carefully cured because morale was not affected; in this story Holds the daily gazette Apparently ‘Blitz Spirit’ is exemplary, there is a good story in the middle of destruction, which is the most effort to overcome adversity in the most effort of time.

Two newspapers, Holds the daily gazette And this Evening newsBoth were then published by Northern Press Ltd., both were impressed by the bombing, with ‘disadvantage’ so serious that to produce impossible in any of them. ‘

Although, Holds the daily gazette How was the report ‘both newspapers were published as usual the next day,’ But how was this possible, given the level of damage on both printing and publishing premises?

Shields Daily Gazette | 29 October 1941

In fact, Holds the daily gazette How to record Gazette Buildings in Barrington Street and Chapter Roe found two direct hits within a few minutes, causing widespread damage. The newspaper explained in detail how:

The first bomb crashed through the roof in the center of the building and practically ruined every office on both floors, while the second destroyed the northern end of the campus which included the commercial printing department. The printing survived severe damage above the press and linotype machines on the ground floor of the new extension.

To avoid gesture, four firewathers were stationed in the building, which were all employees of the Northern Press. Holds the daily gazette Gives the following account of their narrow escape:

Three of the fire-witches F. He was buried in the rubble, but, however, suffering from the influence of the shock and suffering from the influence of the explosion, he escaped from severe injuries.

Meanwhile, fellow Firewatch Mr. Fred Taylor, who was a main reporter in the Northern Press, was up when the bomb was hit. He ‘flowed with his feet,’ and was buried within the rubble, while terrible, “behind him, no more than a yard, a part of the building fell into the ruins.” Despite shock, and minor cuts and suffering from injuries, Fred made it back ‘shattered ladder’.

So with offices Holds the daily gazette Damaged in south slopes, and those people Evening news Also killed in North Shields, plans were to be ‘placed’ which would ensure uninterrupted publication of firm papers. ,

Holds the daily gazette Details how it was done:

All this was successfully completed in the early hours of the morning, and with the prepared cooperation and courtesy of the prepared cooperation and courtesy of Sunderland Eco and Nucle Ending Chronicle proprietors and employees, the papers of the Northern Press were on sale as the same day, working under the pre-organized war-time plan of mutual aid. The rivals of the newspaper faced great difficulties by practicing comradeship, sympathy and a commendable sense of understanding.

In a final rise of patriotism, Holds the daily gazette How to note:

A few days after the raid, the Union Jack proudly announced everyone on the Barrington Street Building and was announcing everyone that the shields gazette ‘family’ was again in ‘residence’. Since then it was as usual business.

Meanwhile, the newspaper, telling this remarkable story, wanted to express his gratitude to the management and employees. Nuclear chronicle And this Sunderland eco For his prepared help and his great spirit of comradesship on that occasion. ‘You can see a copy of paper published against all obstacles Here,

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This week we have updated eighteen of our current titles.

You can learn more about each title we connect every week by clicking on their name. On the title page of each paper, you can read a free sample problem, learn more about our current holdings and our plans for digitization.

You can be up -to -date with all the latest additions by visiting the recently added page. You can also see what we are going to add tomorrow to see.

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