Site for Old Local Newspaper Accounts

Found this site while browsing.

http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/militarymain.html

You might find it intresting.

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Originally Posted by drone_pilot

Found this site while browsing.

http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/militarymain.html

You might find it interesting.

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Hi drone_pilot

I have been aware of this site for old newspaper accounts for some time and there are a lot of interesting things there. What you have cited is a subsection of the main site which is

http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/index.html

Happy reading everyone!

Chris

AHHA THANK'S ChrisGeorge i was searching for Liverpool+Military so the search by past the index page.

Thanks again for that it looks like a good site To look through.

Hi again drone

Actually I now realise that Old Liverpool is also a project of Caryl Williams who started the site I noted above. Old Liverpool seems to be a more sophisticated version of the same, with graphics added.

http://www.old-liverpool.co.uk/

Chris

Newspaper archives with their collections of millions of old newspaper articles have always been a treasure trove for historical research or to find a person, but in pre-digital days, a treasure that one approached with grim determination.

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Originally Posted by eagle61

Newspaper archives with their collections of millions of old newspaper articles have always been a treasure trove for historical research or to find a person, but in pre-digital days, a treasure that one approached with grim determination.

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Ah yes. Before we had Micro-chips we had Micro-fische. Redolent of something else wrapped-up in Newsprint. :)