I know we have the Historic Newcastle thread, and that a LOT of old Newspaper Articles have featured on there, and doubtless will continue to do so.
It is just that I have (as I am sure many others have) a number of copies of "old issues" of our main local newspapers, that do not necessarily contain articles or items about the topics we discuss here on SSC, but are interesting simply because they are 'old' and from our region.
They are part of our history . . . the story of how we got here and why we are how we are today!
I thought it would be good to have a 'dedicated' thread, where examples of (mainly) "Front Pages" from them could be shown, starting with . . .
Evening Chronicle - Monday August 17th 1959.
The above 'first example' I originally thought was actually about something that we HAVE discussed on here, the bombing of Manors Goods Yard during the war, but it is about a later warehouse fire near Manors Station, in 1959. I don't think it was at the 'Manors Goods Yard' . . though I may be wrong about that?
Most 'old newspaper' examples, will not be about SSC related issues or subjects though, I would imagine!
Actually, what finally convinced me to start this thread today, was the item in the next post that is from todays (30th March 2010) copy of the Journal.
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It is just that I have (as I am sure many others have) a number of copies of "old issues" of our main local newspapers, that do not necessarily contain articles or items about the topics we discuss here on SSC, but are interesting simply because they are 'old' and from our region.
They are part of our history . . . the story of how we got here and why we are how we are today!
I thought it would be good to have a 'dedicated' thread, where examples of (mainly) "Front Pages" from them could be shown, starting with . . .
Evening Chronicle - Monday August 17th 1959.
The above 'first example' I originally thought was actually about something that we HAVE discussed on here, the bombing of Manors Goods Yard during the war, but it is about a later warehouse fire near Manors Station, in 1959. I don't think it was at the 'Manors Goods Yard' . . though I may be wrong about that?
Most 'old newspaper' examples, will not be about SSC related issues or subjects though, I would imagine!
Actually, what finally convinced me to start this thread today, was the item in the next post that is from todays (30th March 2010) copy of the Journal.
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