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7. Even Fishergate was a
mini-Fleet Street

8. 1844

10. 1844

13. 1862

14. 1882

16. 1 Philatelic World (1899)
2 Preston Argus (1897 - 1917) Monthly Satirical Magazine
3 Cross Fleury's Journal (1896 - 1900?) Monthly Misc Magazine
4 Empire Journal (1896 - 1897) Monthly/Weekly Misc Magazine
5 Preston Monthly Circular (1895 - 1915) Monthly Advertiser
6 Lancashire Catholic (1895-1902) Monthly Catholic Magazine
7 Upward (1895? - 1900) Monthly Temperance Magazine
8 Preston Co-operative Record (1894 - 1920) Monthly Membership Magazine
9 Faith Of Our Fathers (1891-?) Monthly Catholic Magazine
10 Preston Weekly Advertiser (1890 - 1894?) Weekly Advertiser
11 The Antidote (1890 - 1892) Weekly Catholic, polemical Magazine
12 Financial Opinion (1889) Financial
13 Catholic News (1889 - 1934) Weekly Catholic Newspaper
14 Onward (1888-?) Monthly Temperance Magazine
15 Lancashire Evening/Daily Post (1886 to date) Evening Newspaper
16 The Football News (1884-87) Weekly Football Newspaper
17 National Fair Trader (1884) Weekly Protectionist Newspaper
18 Preston Telegraph (1881) Weekly? Sports Newspaper
19 The Echo (1880) Monthly Satirical Magazine
20 The Wasp (1878) Weekly Satirical Magazine
21 Commercial Traveller's Review (1874-75)
22 Preston Penny News (1874) Weekly Newspaper
23 Preston Sun (1874) Weekly Newspaper
24 Preston Illustrated Times (1874) Weekly Illustrated Newspaper
25 Preston Daily Guardian (1870) Morning Newspaper
26 Preston Evening News (1870 - 1871) Evening Newspaper
27 Preston Evening Express (1870) Evening Newspaper
28 Longworth’s Preston Advertiser (1867 - 1882) Monthly Misc Advertiser
29 Staunch Teetotaller (1867-68) Monthly Temperance Magazine
30 Collector's Circular (1865-66)
31 Preston Mercury (1861) Weekly Newspaper
32 Mitchell's Monthly Preston Advertiser (Oct-Nov 1859) Monthly Advertiser
33 Preston Herald & General Advertiser (1855 - 1970) Weekly/bi-weekly Newspaper
34 Preston Standard and Northern Weekly Advertiser (1855-56) Weekly Newspaper
35 Preston Illustrated General Advertiser(1854-55) Weekly Illustrated Magazine?
36 Livesey's Progressionist (1852-53) Weekly Political Magazine
37 Weekly/bi-weekly Newspaper
38 Preston Magazine & Christian's Miscellany (1843) Monthly Anglican, anti-RC Magazine
39 The Struggle (1841-46) Weekly Anti-Corn Laws Magazine
40 Pollard’s Preston Advertiser (1840-41) Advertiser
41 Livesey's Moral Reformer (1838-39) Weekly Political, temperanceMagazine
42 Preston Observer (1837-40) Weekly Newspaper
43 Youthful Tee-totaller (1836) Temperance
44 Preston Temperance Advocate (1834-37) Weekly Temperance Magazine
45 An Address From One of the 3730 Electors of Preston (1831-32)Weekly Political Newspaper
46 Moral Reformer (1831-33) Weekly Political, temperanceMagazine
47 The Crisis, or Star to the Great Northern Union (Sept-Aug 1830)Weekly? Political Magazine
48 Preston Pilot (1825 - 1888) Weekly Newspaper
49 Preston Sentinel (1821-22) Weekly Newspaper
50 Preston Chronicle (1812 - 1893) Weekly Newspaper
51 Preston Journal (1807-12) Weekly Newspaper
1850 1860 18701800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1880 1890
Preston Guardian (1844 - 1964)

17. Image courtesy of Ian Rigby and Peter Holme

19. OK so there were more
local papers than
London papers,
but which were
more popular?

21. “I should say nearly every home took
the Post” – Preston oral history
interviewee
“The … local halfpenny evening paper
… seems to be in the hands of every
man and woman, and almost every
child” – Lady Florence Bell, Middlesbrough

32. So why was the local
newspaper so popular?

36. Preston Herald, 5 April 1889

37. Victorian ‘time
capsule’
containing local
newspapers,
buried beneath
Kendal’s new
market hall in
1855, dug up in
1909
(now in Kendal
Museum)

39. So the newspapers sold
local identity.
But did the readers buy it?

40. “I got the Carlisle Journal today
which was sent me and I was very glad
to get it … I read it all through
advertisements and all I was so keen
of it.” – John O’Neil, Carlisle weaver,
exiled to Clitheroe

41. “I cannot resist the temptation to
inform you of the pleasure with which
I receive my Standard & Express
each week in this far-off land. It seems
to take me once again amongst old
friends … But there is another
pleasure … the really good poetry and
prose in our dear old dialect -- James
Lonsdale, Blackburn exile in South Africa