Copy of Local newspapers ??

[BULLDOGFOGG]

Any Pals know of anyone out there who can provide copies of old newspapers. In particular local newspapers that contained obituries. Ive microfiched to death and found the obituries i needed for my family research but the photos are very poor quality after photocopying.

Regards

Kevin

[Tony Lund]

Newspaper Library Link.

The British Newspaper Library may well have hard copies of your local newspapers, they have of mine. I have had a photograph provided by them. They took a photo of the photo in the original newspaper. I think the charge was £22.50.

An example of the quality is Here, it is the picture of two girls filling hand grenades in the last post in the thread.

Tony.

[Bernard_Lewis]

Having seen original copies of the South Wales Daily Post for 1914 on I have to say that the quality of the original newspaper snaps is often very grainy - and not a lot you can do with that...no idea where the original photos went - the negatives seem very rare.

Bernard

[BULLDOGFOGG]

Tony, Bernard

Thanks for the replies, im contacting the Brit Library and hopefully they will photograph the articles (they do hold them). The photocopies i have are very poor.

Kev