Cornish Echo and Falmouth & Penryn Times – Saturday 11 October 1873 HUNTING THE POLICE AND RIOTING AT CAMBORNE The police and the mining population of Camborne appear not to be able to saddle horses at all well. Some time ago, there was very personal and bitter controversy between the […]
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Nottingham Journal – Monday 14 March 1864 SHIRE HALL, NOTTINGHAM. SATURDAY. – (Before Mr. Birkin and Mr. Edge.) DRUNKENNESS. John Tomlinson, charged with drunkenness at Radford, on the 8th inst. Fined 10s.—Enoch Hodgkinson, for a similar offence on Sunday last, at Nuttall. Fined 10s. and costs.—Two men, named Alsopp and […]
October 26, 1898 | ST. JAMES’S GAZETTE THE ANTIQUARIAN ROMANCE. MORE REMARKABLE EVIDENCE. Mr. Lushington sat again specially at Bow-street yesterday for the further hearing of the charges against Herbert Davies, twenty-five, “private surgeon,” of Castlenau-gardens, Barnes, of forging entries in Mangotsfield parish register, tampering with monuments and coffins, forging […]
Birkenhead News – Saturday 11 October 1884 RAILWAY ROBBERY Before Mr. Preston, at the Borough Police Court, on Wednesday, four young seamen, named John Mullin, 4, Byrom-street; James Allsop, 140, Beckwith-street; Gardner Carruthers, 280, Conway-street; and William Lewis Seacombe, were charged with stealing a sailor’s white canvas bag from Birkenhead […]
Family notices in old newspapers are important because they provide essential details about individuals, relationships, and communities, offering a rich resource for genealogical research and insights into social history. Here is an example: Gloucester Citizen (Thursday 8th December 1927): BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths, In […]
Western Times – Friday 06 December 1940 This news article provides an interesting snapshot of wartime Britain, revealing how the upheaval of daily life affected young people. It offers a glimpse into the juvenile justice system of the time and the community’s efforts to address and correct youth crime amid the broader […]
News coverage of events during the First World War in a way marked a new beginning of the manner in which correspondents cover conflict. The journalists working 100 years ago have left behind a unique and outstanding record of this dramatic moment in history. In the coming years you will […]
The story of the First World War is the tale of political conflict and above all the running and full commentary of bravery the likes of which will remain indelible for ever. Thomas Neely was born in Liverpool in 1898 and died as a dramatically early age at Flanders on […]
Marshall James Winchester was born 29th November 1898 at Ashburnham, Sussex, England. His Dad, George, was a farmer and his Mum, Alice Ann (known as Ann) used do what she could to help out on the farm according to the 1911 census. Marshall was killed on board *Black Prince on […]
William Braithwaite and his brother Clarence were on board HMS Bulwark when a devastating internal explosion killed 736 men. Williams survived but his brother Clarence was killed in the explosion. The Braithwaite family had already featured in the news locally and now they were publishing a letter that William Braithwaite […]