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From: "Anne Peat" <>
Subject: Re: Southend-on-Sea: Newspaper 1939
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 09:10:42 +0000


Dean have a look at the British Library Newspaper Archives. They have an
online catalogue that can be searched by place and date. Then you can ask
them to find and copy the piece, or perhaps a local Southend Library will
have microfilm, and do it for you.
Anne

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>From: "Dean Martin Rees NEWMAN" <>
>To:
>Subject: Southend-on-Sea: Newspaper 1939
>Date: Sun, Nov 30, 2003, 6:11
>

> Greetings from the "Land Down Under"
> (Lat 17.5s Long 146.4e)
> Hi to All,
> I seek information, please, on the name of the local newspaper that
> would have been operating in the Southend district in 1939.
> I have an undated newspaper cutting reporting the golden wedding
> anniversary of a local couple who were married in the June quarter of
> 1889 (Free BMD). So presumably the report would have appeared in the
> paper in the June quarter of 1939. It says in part:
> "Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Meades, of 547 London Road, Westcliff, who
> celebrated their golden wedding today (Thursday), were married at
> Hadleigh Parish Church".
> I am keen to establish the date of this report and where the archive
> editions of the paper might be held.
>
> And may that which you seek be found
> Dean Newman, North Queensland Australia.
> "As time goes by"
>
> "If music be the food of love play on"
>
>
>
>

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