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Hello! :)
Does anyone know if there is anywhere where I can find Shropshire newspaper records from the year 1927? Everywhere seems to stop at 1919? I am trying to find a record of a roadside accident in which a young motor cyclist, Francis Ernest Thomas died.
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Have you tried the Brittish Newspaper Archive?
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
Also available on FindMyPast.
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Yes tried both of those ???
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What details do you have - name, place, ....
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Francis Ernest Thomas
August 1927
Shifnal, Shropshire
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I've searched most of the online resources that I have - used neighbouring English counties (Staffs and Warwickshire) and then all counties as sometimes such accidents are reported in other local papers but can only find his death cert ref.
I assume that you have that.
Gadget
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Hi,
Try Oswestry Library (assume its currently closed though), they have a card-index system listing births, marriages and deaths copied from the [Oswestry] Advertizer and the Montgomeryshire County Times plus microfiche copies of those papers which I've found very useful.
Jon
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My research was1914:
Not at all sure when they stopped.
All the local newspapers back numbers were in the Library Shrewsbury ,on the bottom of Pride Hill ,near the station.
The building used to be the old Shrewsbury School.
The paper mostly read was” The Wellington Journal and Shrewsbury News “
They covered most of Shropshire.
Viktoria.
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Hi,
Try Oswestry Library (assume its currently closed though), they have a card-index system listing births, marriages and deaths copied from the [Oswestry] Advertizer and the Montgomeryshire County Times plus microfiche copies of those papers which I've found very useful.
Jon
There was a superb Local History librarian there who sent me lots of snips of obits, etc. but I don't think he is there anymore and the service hasn't been as good for a good few years.
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See this link for the newspapers at Shropshire Archives:
https://www.shropshirearchives.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/newspapers-summary-list.pdf
I believe that those for 1927 have not yet been digitised, so you would have to visit the archives to look at the relevant microfilms.
My experience has been that the Shrewsbury Chronicle used to have the widest coverage for Salop and certainly I have discovered some wonderful stuff over the years - including invaluable articles from 1926 & 1927.
Willyam