Provincial newspapers contain a source of information on a district or a local community which cannot be found elsewhere. They contain feature articles on topics not to be found in books or official papers, with full accounts of local social and political more>>

All newspapers were published in High Street, though it appears that the Worcester Chronicle was for a time pubished from Copenhagen Street, but in B.W.J. 13.11.1937, on the amalgamation of the B.W.J with the Worcestershire Advertiser, it was stated that more>>

One of the features of Berrow's Worcester Journal was the comments on local affairs by 'Crowquill'. The nom-de-plume comes from the fact that in medival times reed pens and quills were chiefly used, and artists to this day found a turkey quill, well baked more>>

Worcester has been an important centre of printing from the mid 16th century. The first of that craft to practise in Worcester began there in 1548. He was John Oswen of Ipswich, which at that time, had three printers. Worcester was the nineth place in the more>>

The story started with the publication of the single-sheet Worcester Postman in 1690, when the Press had finally won its fight for freedom against rigorous repression and control. The Post-Man dated December 8th to Decemeber 16th, 1710 is the earliest copy more>>

Provincial newspapers did not exist until the 18th century. Before then however, there were newsletters written by 'reporters' employed by persons of rank to keep them informed of happenings during their absence from Court. During the Civil War, Charles 1 more>>

The men who supplied the newsheets gathered their news mostly by spending their days going the rounds of the London Taverns and Coffee houses. Shirley, in Love Tricks, wrote of them: 'They will write you a battle at an hours warning and yet never set foot more>>

Pekin boasts of a printed sheet on silk which appeared every week for over a thousand years, but in the modern sense, it cannot claim to be a newspaper. The London Gazette, published in 1665, twice weekly, remained a continuous series since that date, but more>>

In January, 1701, Francis Burges of Norwich, published the first provincial paper, a four-page foolscap sheet, which he called the Norwich Post. A few copies remain, the issue numbered 348 is in the British Museum. A letter of Dr. Thomas Tanner, Bishop of more>>

The Postman assumed a new title c.1720, The Worcester Post or Western Journal. This is thought to counter the Ludlow Postman, or Weekly Journal, commenced October 1719, which was borrowed in almost every respect from Worcester - with left of title a woodcut more>>

It has been argued that even before 1709 Worcester had a newspaper. Local Historians, Dr.Nash and Valentine Green, both linked the Worcester newspaper with the period following the Glorious Revolution which deposed James 11. This was the time when the first more>>

Stephen Bryan served his apprenticeship in London, taking up his freedom on June 3rd, 1706. He had a press in Worcester by 1709 for in that year he printed a sermon by E.Chandler, and began publishing his Worcester Postman. We know very little about him, more>>

By 1725, the old title of Worcester Postman, was changed to that of the Worcester Journal, and the imprint, which had been simply 'Printed by S.Bryan' and the date, became 'Printed by Stephen Bryan'. In 1730, the name became the Weekly Worcester Journal. more>>

On taking over the Worcester Journal, Harvery Berrow issued the following announcement, adored with a curious engraving of 'The West Prospect of Worcester': 'Mr. Bryan having lately declined printing the Worcester Journal, it is now undertaken by H.Berrow more>>

All went well with Harvey Berrow for some years, until 1753, when  a rival printer, Richard Lewis, started a paper in opposition, which he called the New Worcester Journal, and published from the Bible and Crown, in High Street. After a few weeks, the title more>>

From October 11, 1753, the title became Berrow's Worcester Journal. Harvey Berrow carried on the Journal until his death on August 16th, 1776, when his eldest son, also Harvey Berrow, continued the publication, but not for long. Harvey Berrow 11 died in more>>

By 1836, Henry Deighton was the sole owner, and the paper was printed and published from 53 High Strret (on the corner of Church Street), where the Deighton family had kept a bookshop, as well as a small printing office doing general work and lithography, more>>

 At the end of the 18th century, William Holl, with the encouragement of Lord Sandys, established a new weekly newspaper called the Worcester Herald. The first issue came out January 4, 1794, printed by Holl at 72, High Street, and was much favoured by the more>>

No more than 13 of the papers in the Berrow's group have been established for more than 100 years. The oldest of course, is the founder member, Berrow's Journal, which traces its ancestry back to 1690, and is the oldest continuously published newspaper in more>>

When in 1894, a private company was formed the first Secretary and General Manager was W.J.Pearce, who came from Plymouth, and who held that post for 50 years. With him in those days was Harry Davey, who was Editor for many years, and was followed by his more>>