Flipbook: Newspaper: Goole Times 1903 Special Edition
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Goole Times Jubilee Supplement, 1903
Introduction
Local newspaper The Goole Times, launched in 1853, celebrated its first 50 years of existence in1903 by issuing a special edition which it called the Jubilee Supplement. It was presented with the Goole Times issued on Friday 14 August, 1903. Unlike the modern Goole Times which is printed today in tabloid form, in 1903 the newspaper was printed in broadsheet format. The six pages of the supplement measured 440mm x 565mm which make it quite a handful to manage.
Unfortunately you will notice that this copy of the newspaper had sustained some damage during the last 120 years requiring the use of sellotape which is not ideal as it has created a brown stain as it deteriorated. Fortunately the image remains legible.
Content
The material published in this supplement holds a fascinating review of matters reported in the newspaper during the period 1853 – 1903. The Goole Times itself summed up the content in the following mini-headline:
Moving around the newspaper
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Source
The original copy of The Goole Times Jubilee Supplement was provided to local historian David Galloway by fellow historian Susan Butler. Susan has given a home to an archive of Goole Times copies and this anniversary edition is part of that collection. David Galloway used Goole firm Harry Broadley and Sons to scan the original and construct a digital replica. It is that digital replica which David has donated to this Society for publication.
Publication permission for copyright images
We acknowledge that copyright images are being shown for which no explicit permission to publish has been given to this Society. Many of the digital images shown had originally been produced with the knowledge and permission of the now defunct Yorkshire Waterways Museum from original photographs deposited there for public display. Following the closure of that organisation in 2019 and the break up of their collection those original photographs have disappeared and have effectively been lost to the public.
Through an incredible stroke of good fortune digital copies of those images were donated to this Society in 2022 allowing our volunteers to finally achieve the wishes of those photographers and collectors who had made the original donations.
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