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loisand

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Has anyone any more info about the papers listed below, or coluld you reccomend a link:

ARIS'S GAZETTE established June 4th 1741 by T. Aris, published and printed on a Monday by John Caldicott, 71 High Street, Birmingham.

BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL established June 4th 1825, published and printed on a Saturday at 38 New Street, Birmingham by John Fredrick Feeney.

MIDLAND COUNTIES HERALD established July 28th 1836, printed and published on a Thursday by Thomas Barbar Wright, Union Street, Birmingham for Wright and Dain.

BIRMINGHAM MERCURY established December 30th 1848 on strict independant principles, printed and published on Saturday at 110 New Street, Birmingham, by William Benjamin Smith.

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Loisand Have you been to the Central Library and routed through the cabinets over by the wall away from the micro viewers. were the old Aston & Handsworth papers are ?
 
just below this thread are some aston and birmingham chronicles from birmingham papers I found my great grand mothers death and it named two uncles deaths also it's worth a look
click on history it say chronicles
 
Does anyone have access to the back issues of the Birmingham Evening Mail? I'm looking for an issue in 1958. I think it was the Mail: but was there another evening paper at that time?
 
Well I remember the Evening Despatch. (just not sure how to spell it..)
 
Oh yes, who remembers the seller outside New Street Station, spachnmail.

The local newspapers are all on Microfilm Birmingham Library. They may do a look up for you for a small fee.
 
Or spacherMILE? (Perhaps that was around the corner, outside the Odeon).

Chris
 
Evening Mail Paper Sellers

I remember the paper seller around where the baked potato and chestnut man use to sell , mmmmmmmm yummmmmmmmy :) the only trouble was when the salt use to drop to the point of the bottom of the bag :| getting back on the Evening Mail , does anyone remember the Paper Seller who use to sell in the Mineries which was Lewis,s ???
I think he was a bit of a Bluenose ;) cus ,he wore lots of badges representing Birmingham City .
Ragga .
 
And the Green Mail, it was a sports paper and used to arrive at the paper shops before the Sports Argus.
 
spatchandmail

how about rose in dale end spatchandmail two for three happence the
last one use to work with her for many years used to finish at work and
go out selling mail and spatch said she loved doing it.
 
My dad used to have the Sporting Buff and another publication the ..... Handicap. The ... Handicap was just under the size of A4 and quite thick, and dad used to keep these for ages, he used to have a regular bet, which I sometimes had to take to George Davis' shop in Inkerman Street, Aston. He didn't gamble much but enjoyed the "flutter" and even if he didn't win much he used to say "little fishes are sweet". It was woe betide any of use if we moved these Handicaps which he kept in the front room.
 
Planet

I remember the Birmingham Planet newspaper but I think you'll find it wasn't free.I have a photo' of my friends band that I cut out of it. They were called "The Exception".
 
Thanks for all that- I think it might have been the Evening Dispatch I was thinking about:

I'm sure also there was a pink sports paper on a Saturday night. Anyone remember that?
 
I remember the pinks on a Saturday night, Saxon. Dad used to get them. Can't remember what they were called though. Didn't tne Mercury do pink sports pages?
 
BobS said:
I remember the Birmingham Planet newspaper but I think you'll find it wasn't free.I have a photo' of my friends band that I cut out of it. They were called "The Exception".
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I've had a look around and I see that the Planet 1963-1967 is on microfiche at the central library 6th floor.
There was a 'local boy makes good' story in there about me at the time , must get there and look it up. :) . E.
 
My uncle - Syd Woodhall - was a compositor for years with the B'ham Evening Mail, anyone reember him?
 
The pink Argus used to come out late on Saturdays and my brother used to go around to the newsagent every Saturday in the football season to buy one.
 
evening mail and dispatch

Saxonw. said:
Does anyone have access to the back issues of the Birmingham Evening Mail? I'm looking for an issue in 1958. I think it was the Mail: but was there another evening paper at that time?
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evening mail and dispatch' ?
 
Saxonw. said:
Thanks for all that- I think it might have been the Evening Dispatch I was thinking about:

I'm sure also there was a pink sports paper on a Saturday night. Anyone remember that?
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I remember that pink paper I think it was called the 'Argus' my dad used to get it for the football results!
 
Welcome granjay that Pink one was the Sports Argus now gone last edition Saturday, May 13, 2006, kindly sent to me by one of the members of this great Forum:)
 
sports argus

:) I supplied the football results to the Sports Argus from 1959 until 1976. I worked for the Press association in Digbeth.
 
Does anyone remember a (weekly?) paper in the 1950s called Billy's Weekly Liar? I think it was Birmingham-based.
It wasn't a proper newspaper, just a collection of jokes and spoofs made to look like news items in a newspaper. It looked a bit like the old Children's Newspaper - anyone remember that? It had so many jokes in it that I can't imagine it came out every week, despite its title.
My father used to buy it occasionally and I can remember hours of fun reading it as a boy. It beat any comic. I think it had an Anuk & Ali cartoon strip in it, too.
Years later, I saw a similar one-page paper for sale on Blackpool front, but that one was a one-off edition and smutty.
 
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