Hold The Front Page

Front pages (and usually back, middle or other pages) chosen at random (more or less) from my collection of mostly 20th Century mostly British newspapers. Weekly new posts on Sundays, a Random Cutting on Wednesdays and a Random Advert on Fridays.

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Evacuation of Children from Guernsey (1940)

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Evening Press (Guernsey) dated June 19th 1940 Click to Read The Channel Islands were occupied by Germany from 30 June 1940 until th...
Friday, 26 September 2014

Random Ad - Clyno Royal 4-Seater (1925)

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Click to Enlarge Ever heard of Clyno cars? Believe it (Wikipedia) or not at one time they were Britain's third largest car manufa...
Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Random Cutting - Death of Tommy Handley (1949)

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10th January 1949 Click to Read January 1949 Click to Read Tommy Handley was a star of radio from a time before TV when that ...
Sunday, 21 September 2014

Soyuz 11 Disaster (1971)

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Daily Mail dated July 1st 1971 Click to Read Click to Read The three man crew of Soyuz 11 were returning Earth after spending 2...
Friday, 19 September 2014

Random Ad - Dish Washer (1950's)

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Click to Enlarge The height of sophisticated living in the 1950's - a Colston Automatic Dishwasher. By 1965 the ownership of a di...
Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Random Cutting - A E Mathews in Hospital (1960)

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27th February 1960 Click to Read I couldn't resist this picture of the irascible 90 year old character actor A E Matthews smoki...
Sunday, 14 September 2014

Murdered by Madmen (1984)

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Daily Mirror dated Wednesday April 18th 1984 Click to Read   Click to Read 25 year-old WPC Yvonne Fletcher was a British police...
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