1/16/2024 0 Comments British headline news todayThe driver and conductress were both injured and the car was completely wrecked.ġ00 years ago – A crimeless day at the police courtĥ September 1917 Rochdale Observer | 5 September 1917 The only passenger on board at the time was Miss Murphy who received injuries to her head. The Newcastle Evening Chronicle reported that a tramcar running down Kingston Hill ‘jumped the points and turned completely over’. One hundred years ago, tramcars were a popular means of public transportation therefore, when one went off its line or there was an accident, it would affect the lives of many within the local area. Burnley Express | 1 September 1937 100 years – Tramcar wreckedġ September 1917 Newcastle Evening Chronicle | 1 September 1917 It was celebrated while members of the First Battalion of Royal Scots sounded a fanfare at the entrance of the cinema. How many of us attend the cinema on a regular basis? But do you know when your local cinema first opened? The Odeon theatre at Burnley opened 80 years ago. The donation made a lasting impact on the hospital and furthermore to the community it served.Ĩ0 years – Burnley’s Odeon theatre opened Known as the Brotherton Wing, the hospital wing is still in use today. The Yorkshire Evening Postannounced that Mr Charles Brotherton would donate £50,000 to Leeds home of healing towards the cost of building and equipping the private patients’ wing. Thanet Advertiser | 8 September 1942ħ5 years ago – Announcement of a benefactor for Leeds’ hospital wingġ September 1942 Yorkshire Evening Post | 1 September 1942 The article also reprinted excerpts of letters they wrote home. Second Lieutenant Charles Bonning joined the Pay Corps in September 1940, and younger brother Pilot Officer Arthur Bonning joined the Army four years before the outbreak of the war. The youngest daughter, ‘Sgt Phyllis M Bonning was one the first batch of 20 to volunteer for the ATS when it was formed about a year before the outbreak of the war’. ‘The youngest daughter is on service in the Middle East, the elder son is a commissioned officer in this country and the younger son is putting RAF pilots through their paces in Canada’. Within the family of four children, three were in the forces and a fourth was a school principal. The Thanet Advertiser’sfront page featured a ‘front line family’. The war did touch families on a personal level, especially those with family members in the armed forces. Seventy-five years ago, Britain was in the midst of the Second World War therefore, the newspapers are filled with details of battles, military movements, and national security. News travelled, news of a locality could be recorded in another county or country. The journalist commended the peace and quietness of village life compared to living in the towns.Ī Golden Rule for newspaper research is to not limit yourself to your local papers when searching for a place or topic. The Bishop of Bedford dedicated the building and the Chairman of Bedfordshire Education Committee officially declared the new school opened. Education, along with work, is a focus of family life in a village. As the article explained, ‘village communities had tended to grow up around the church, school and post office’. The Stage | 21 September 1967Ħ0 years ago – New school opened in Wrestlingworth, Bedfordshireġ3 September 1957 Biggleswade Chronicle | 13 September 1957Ī new school opened in Wrestlingworth to replace the former school from 1851. It was built in 1906 and opened 30 September 1907 with a performance by H B Irving of Charles I. The theatre, which still stands today, is an Edwardian playhouse designed by Frank Matcham who also designed the Winter Garden, the Victoria Palace, and the Palladium. In 1967, the King’s Theatre in Southsea, Portsmouth, celebrated its Diamond Jubilee (60th anniversary) with a special gala performance attended by VIPs. Register for our free local history webinarĥ0 years ago – The King’s Theatre in Southsea celebrated its Diamond JubileeĪ theatre and the arts can be the centre of cultural life for a community. We explored the newspapers and pulled out local history we found from 50, 60, 75, 80, 100, and 150 years ago. National events may have a trickledown effect on our lives, but it is the everyday local occurrences that touch us and the same is true for those who lived before us. In our everyday life, we are affected on a daily basis by what happens in our immediate surroundings rather than national events. These papers reported national and international news, but it was in their interest to report details of local news and events. Currently, The Archive holds more than 800 titles and many of those are local or provincial titles. Throughout the month of September, The British Newspaper Archive is taking a closer look at researching local history through the newspapers.
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