Thursday, 6 May 2021

'Trusted news since 1874' - the new News Post Leader and its ancestors

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Local newspapers depend on being able to report on and advertise to distinct communities. They attempt to play a part in defining that commu...
Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Cold supper at the launch of the Wellington administration?

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Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, third marquess of Lansdowne.    Illustrated London News , 14 February 1863. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lo...
Monday, 10 April 2017

The Oxford Dictionary of Ponteland Biography

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In the past few days I visited Ponteland Methodist Church to give a talk to their Men's Forum entitled The Oxford Dictionary of Pontel...
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Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Woodstock and Bladon News: cafes and buses

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Woodstock and Bladon News, February 2017 About 500 of those who read my irregular posts here have visited for my history of Ponteland n...
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Saturday, 10 December 2016

Missing Believed Wiped 2016: Whack-O! 7.5 - Jim's Better Self

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Jimmy Edwards in Whack-O! aveleyman.com The first in a series of observations from Missing Believed Wiped 2016, held at BFI Southbank o...
Saturday, 29 October 2016

The Avengers: Season Six, Disc Six - The Rotters, The Interrogators, The Morning After

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Occupations and preoccupations preclude many updates here, but circumstances (well, a slow and annoying cold of the type that wreak havoc ...
Wednesday, 31 August 2016

Newspaper history notes from Northumberland

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A footnote now to my earlier posts on the Ponteland Observer and the Morpeth Herald , particularly Ponteland Observed - Part Three and Go...