Help with an old news paper.

[Retired Member southey]

I have a chest which is always left to the youngest southey male when the current keeper dies(pretty cool tradition).

Any way it has a few pages from the1862 British working man news paper on the inside,I guess it was used to line the chest, I'm just trying to find info on the paper but have drawn a complete blank, all i can find is referance to a sale made by collecting house for some printing plates. but nothing on the paper itself.any help would be great as I haven't a clue as to where to start.

Thank you for any help.

Southey.

 

[Retired Member southey]

He he, thats me third from the left on the right hand picci, the odd one in the sky blue beret.

 

[nitrambur]

Is this any use to you?

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...K#v=onepage&q=thomas bywater smithies&f=false

 

[Retired Member southey]

Fantastic nitrambur thank you, is it easyer to search the people who work for a paper rather than the paper it self?

 

[Womble_Lancs]

A few years ago, I was doing some research into Labour history and found that the main library in the centre of Blackpool had a good collection of various newspapers and periodicals. The People's History Museum might also be able to help.

 

[Retired Member southey]

Thats great Womble L thank you, I'm basicly trying to put together a family history book for my sister's kids and mine. I'm currenlt tracing the southey side and trying to find out a little about each of the men that have cared for the chest. thak you for your help guys those to snippets have helped a lot.

 

[nitrambur]

Fantastic nitrambur thank you, is it easyer to search the people who work for a paper rather than the paper it self?

I got too many hits on "British Workman" and not many relating to the newspaper, so I switched to the editor once I found that out.

 

[sandbender]

I have a chest which is always left to the youngest southey male when the current keeper dies(pretty cool tradition).

A very cool tradition.

Is it just the chest which is passed down or does each generation leave something in the box?

 

[Womble_Lancs]

"The British Workman magazine started in 1855 and was published by Partridge and Co in London. The aim was to 'promote the health, wealth and happiness of the working classes' and it was broadly both Temperance and Evangelistic. It was 'dedicated to the industrial classes' and has been included here to show another type of literature provided for the working man and woman. The magazines are rich in illustrations. The Heatherbank Museum of Social Work holds a run of the annual bound copies of the British Workman from 1855 to 1892, excluding the years 1870, 73, 76, 79, 81, 87 and 89. It also holds the British Workwoman annual copies for 1863, 1864, 1865, 1869, and 1881."

(http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archi...archcollectionsatglasgowcaledonianuniversity/)



This may also be linked to the magazine: http://www.headington.org.uk/history/buildings/british_workman.htm

If you google "British Workman" Magazine it comes up with loads of links.

 

[Retired Member southey]

A very cool tradition.

Is it just the chest which is passed down or does each generation leave something in the box?

It hasn't but I think i'll start it. it's caused a few family rifts over the years it was going to go to one of my cousens when my dad died, but ti turns out he is adopted so I ended up being not just being the youngest but the only southey boy of direct decent, So i've got it, used to cost me a bit as well, while in the Army moving camps ment always having to hire a van and they wouldn't send it through stores looked great in my singley room though.I think i'll leave my bushy kit in it for the next southey that gets it, along with the histoy bits.

Cheers Womble L it never occured to me to change the title a bit. many thanks chap.