Copeland - Newspapers

 

Copeland - Newspapers

 

 

Copeland Newspapers

A primary source of historical information is the humble newspaper and Copeland and its people have been particularly well served in this respect

 

Cumberland Pacquet *

1774 to 1915

Whitehaven News

1852 to date

Northern Counties Gazette

1875 to 1886

West Cumberland News

1930 to modern

Whitehaven Advertiser

1885 to 1921

Whitehaven Free Press

1879 to 1919

Whitehaven Herald & Cumberland Advertiser

1831 to 1878

   

Evening Star & Cumberland Evening Mail

1926 to date

Workington News

1883 to 1919

Workington Star

1888 to date

Solway Pilot & Workington Free Press

1870 to 1893

   

Millom Advertiser

1875 to 1885

Millom Gazette

1889 to 1933

Millom News

1884 to modern

   

Cockermouth Chronicle

1885 to 1919

Cockermouth Free Press

1899 to 1918

West Cumberland Times

1874 to modern

 

* was also known as Wares Whitehaven Advertiser

There were many more papers that were published for periods of less than two years.

 

Nev. Ramsden, November 2008