Swad History
From Newspapers to Pork Pies
The Magic Attic holds around 4,000 volumes of newspapers dating back to 1782 and among them there is one solitary copy of the Swadlincote and Gresley Herald and South Derbyshire News.
This newspaper was the brainchild of local printer Mr R.B. Hall. It began as a lusty infant full of hope, but within three months it had become so weak that Mr. Hall was compelled to stop publication. It was published at his works, The Gresley Press, originally on Wednesday, but later on Saturday, priced one penny.
It was a pity the paper did not survive for it was well printed and contained plenty of local news, together with reports of national
events which, in the custom of the time, were often supplied already printed to local newspapers by firms in London.
Its first “letter to the editor”, appropriately signed “Swaddy”, is a pertinent one. It expressed the urgent need for a “new Market Hall of sufficient dimensions to at least permit the simultaneous swinging of a couple of cats”. The local news items included a report that the musicians of the Quartette Party from Woodville United Band Working Men’s Club had won numerous competitions. The Woodville musicians were: A.W. Parker (solo cornet), J. Mattison (second cornet), G Brassington (tenor horn) and J. Boddice (euphonium).
It would be interesting to know if anyone was ever able to reward the finder of the first piece of lost property advertised in the
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“Herald”. It was a Malacca cane with ivory head and silver ferrule with initials – lost between Burton and Swadlincote.
The copy of the “Herald” held by the Magic Attic is dated Saturday, June 19, 1909 and is possibly
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