At the time most of the reporting was small local papers - who as Dave mentioned often had news items about local people. Use the Oxhist link that Wendy gave us last month: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/heritagesearch and use the advanced search to narrow down the results. There is a listing of newspaper held that I found using the main page, going to Oxhist and searching 'collections' - according the line under the notes about the newspaper collection photographs, documents and objects can be viewed on line for this part of the collection (have not tried it myself) Wendy -----Original Message----- From: David Beames Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 6:50 PM To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OXF] Newspaper reporting Chris wrote: > I'm trying to get a feel for what level of reporting might exist in > newspapers from Oxford(shire) in the 1900s to 1930s period. > I'm assuming there would have been formal birth, marriage and death > notices. And major national (or international) news reported, > unless that was left to The Times etc. There would presumably have > been formal notices covering other items such as land sales. But > how about social events? Smaller events happening in the shire, > like a local cricket match or similar? Dunno about earlier -- I wasn't around -- but certainly by the fifties The Oxford Times (weekly) carried short pieces by local reporters from the villages -- just the sort of thing that you're looking for, in fact. Come to think of it, it recorded my grandfather's death in 1915, not as a "Death" or an Obit, but just as a news item from Ramsden. Though how you'd track down a specific item is another matter :-) DaveB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Have you considered joining, supporting, or becoming involved with, Oxfordshire Family History Society www.ofhs.org.uk ? To join, click on Membership at the left at www.ofhs.org.uk. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Wendy - I'll follow that up. Good suggestion. I now suspect I need to move my search for such reports earlier; the photo that triggered this shows tennis racquets, though poorly as the image is in poor condition. But it has enabled me to date the racquets, at least roughly, by their design to the late 1800s or very early 1900s (of course, the racquets could have been used for many years after ...) Chris > At the time most of the reporting was small local papers - > who as Dave > mentioned often had news items about local people. > > Use the Oxhist link that Wendy gave us last month: > www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/heritagesearch and use the advanced > search to narrow > down the results. There is a listing of newspaper held that > I found using > the main page, going to Oxhist and searching 'collections' - > according the > line under the notes about the newspaper collection > photographs, documents > and objects can be viewed on line for this part of the > collection (have not > tried it myself) > > Wendy