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Subject: [WRY] Keighley/Bingley Local Newspapers
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:00:46 EDT

Hi List

I have just read an article in a Bygone edition of the Keighley News...this
contains information about previous newspapers for those who are interested.
I know a lot of people wonder what papers were read ain which years.

There were a number of newspapers and journals published in Keighley before
the News was launched in 1862. One of the first was the Monthly Target edited
in 1829 by the Rector, the Reverend Theodore Dury. In October 1853 the
Keighley Visitor and General Advertiser was launched as 'a monthly magazine
of Instruction and amusement, published under the superintendence of the
Temperance Society' The first issue carried the line '2,000 copies gratis'
and it continued to be published free until October 1854 when it was enlarged
and sold at one halfpenny a copy. It was chiefly concerned with the advocacy
of temperance in an age when drunkenness was rife. It carried some local news
though it was largely devoted to serious topics.
In 1854 the first real attempt at producing a newspaper was made, but that
too was monthly. It had the formidable title The Keighley and Haworth Argus
and Kildwick, Crosshills Steeton and Silsden Advertiser and was published
from 32 High Street.
The News had a forerunner with the title The Keighley News and Airedale
Advertiser in the summer of 1855 but only four issues appeared. The Argus
also disappeared in the following October. Soon afterwards The Airedale
Courant was published at Bingley.
A number of short-lived publications followed including an Advertiser started
by a Robert AKED of the Stamp Office, Low Street. The Keighley Guardian
produced by John Charles CRAGG, a printer and bookseller of Church Green. The
Keighley Monthly Recorder conducted by a number of working men described as
'Local Affairs Committee' to afford information 'to all ratepayers on all
matters connected with the town's business' and The Keighley Spectator,
brought out by Simon BILLOWS in 1868.
The News was firmly established as the Liberal organ in a town of strong
radical politics when the Keighley Herald was launched as the organ of the
Conservative Party in May, 1873. It was printed by Mr Abraham SHACKLETON at
22 Low Street under the management of Mr T W Melrose, then moved to Bow Walk
and two years later the Herald Company rented property owned by Mr George
STANSFIELD in Hanover Street, where it was produced until 1903.
>From then until the death of the paper in 1911, the Herald was run by the
leaders of the Conservative Party.
For several years in the first decade of this century the Independent Labour
Party ran The Labour Journal to which Mr Philip SNOWDON, the future
Chancellor of the Exchequer was a frequent contributor.
A short-lived publication was the Keighley Echo, which was published on
Wednesdays at halfpenny. Another political journal was The Electioneer edited
by Mr W S B McLAREN, a future MP for Crewe, during the pre School Board
campaigning of 1875. Only one issue appeared of the Keighley and Airedale
Tatler in 1883, but it was revived by a printer, Mr William BINNS as a
monthly and ran for three years.
One of the most dangerous rivals to The News was the Bingley Chronicle
started in 1899 by Mr William ROBINSON, (a former employee of the Herald).
When it was issued in 1905 from the offices of The Bradford Telegraph its
title expanded to the Keighley and Bingley Chronicle.
There was a fierce battle for circulation, after two years the News won and
the Chronicle was taken over, the title becoming The Keighley News and
Bingley Chronicle.
Around January 1902, the News had gained a long lead on all rivals, and was
then enlarged to a permanent size of ten pages. Fully justified was the claim
then made that the circulation was probably at least equal to any three of
its contemporaries published at any point between Bradford and Carlisle.

Best Wishes

Jan

Jan PERKINS-ROTHERAM in Sunny Bronte Country

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