The newspaper library at Colindale is being closed. The paper newspapers are being removed to storage "safely" away from users :-( I recently read an article describing how some are so well used they are falling to pieces. The publicised plans are for relevant items to be filmed and made available at St Pancras. Somehow all this sounds so much like the current debacle with FRC/GRO/TNA...and all those various "birds" which seem to have been ousted by a cuckoo <g> So if you need to look at newspapers, do it soon. That said, local libraries often hold film copies of the newspapers of that town/district. It is always worth checking before heading for London/Colindale; but if you want specific years, be specific in your enquiry. I went two counties away to use papers, having checked on a website for years, booked in without being specific to the actual month/year I needed, got there and guess what...yes, that short period was not in their holding!! Jacqui ----- Original Message ----- From: Charani To: warwick@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [WAR] Gazette Website sue collins wrote: > Since I responded by mentioning the Times newspaper archive, several people > have written, off list, to ask me how to access it. The answer is by using > your UK library card and number. Not sure how/if you can do it from outside > the UK. There are some UK libraries who will accept online applications for readers tickets from anywhere in the world. I think Bedfordshire Libraries do and also Manchester, but don't hold me to that. Googling for both should give you more information. I can only access the Times in my local library. They don't allow access via a home computer. > I don't know about local Warwickshire papers - perhaps someone more > experienced can enlighten? The Colindale archives are being moved (I think) > to the British Library. The Newspaper Library at Colindale is part of the British Library and is moving to a site near St Pancras in London. From what I've heard the service is not going to be as extensive as it is now. As always, exactly what the service will be like won't be fully known until the new site is up and running. I didn't think that it was going to the same site as the British Library itself, but may be wrong there. Googling will find the answer. A search of the Newspaper Library site and/or Warwickshire Record Office's online catalogue should find local papers. Google should also find them. "Warwickshire Newspapers" (with the quote marks) should find them as well. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.0/1135 - Release Date: 16/11/2007 22:58

Jacqui Simkins wrote: > The newspaper library at Colindale is being closed. The paper > newspapers are being removed to storage "safely" away from users > :-( I recently read an article describing how some are so well > used they are falling to pieces. > > The publicised plans are for relevant items to be filmed and made > available at St Pancras. Somehow all this sounds so much like the > current debacle with FRC/GRO/TNA...and all those various "birds" > which seem to have been ousted by a cuckoo <g> And it's enough to drive everyone "cuckoo"!! Thanks for the memory refresher :)) -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk