Biographical newspaper cuttings held in Middlesbrough Reference Library

The Reference Library holds a collection of newscuttings, broadly biographical in nature, which include many 'worthy' characters as well as people of more general interest.

They are being indexed alphabetically by name, and grouped A-Z.

A collection of this type was formed, typically, by cutting out the relevant text, and mounting it on cardboard, with an index entry at the edge of the cardboard. Some of the cuttings in the collection date from the 19th century.

There is a brief description of each cutting, together with its source, and the date it was published.

The majority of the cuttings are taken from the Evening Gazette, which is held in Middlesbrough Reference Library, from 15 November 1869, on microfilm.
 

Other sources include :-

Darlington and Stockton Times
Daily Mail
Evening Chronicle
Financial Times
Local Government Chronicle
Middlesbrough News and Cleveland Advertiser
Northern Echo
North Eastern Weekly News
Newcastle Journal
Newcastle Journal and North Mail
North Mail and Newcastle Chronicle
Northern Star
Sunday Sun
Yorkshire Post

A biographical cuttings
Filename:  Biographical newspaper cuttings A.htm
Description:    a collection of newscuttings, broadly biographical in nature
Type and size:    html doc size 69.8KB

B Biographical cuttings
Filename:  Biographical newspaper cuttings B.htm
Description:    a collection of newscuttings, broadly biographical in nature
Type and size:    html doc size 252 KB

C Biographical cuttings
Filename:  Biographical newspaper cuttings c.htm
Description:    a collection of newscuttings, broadly biographical in nature
Type and size:    html doc size 277 KB
 
 
 

Some examples from the collection
 
 
 
 

Captain Cook's Cottage
Filename:  CookCottage.pdf
Description:    Cuttings about Captain Cook's Cottage
Type and size:    Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Document 2,508 kb
 

First Woman Freeman 1934
Filename:  misscarter.pdf
Description:    Miss Carter accepts honour
Type and size:    Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Document 965 kb
 

Felix Corbett
Filename:  corbett-001.pdf
Description:    Felix Corbett, borough organist, organist and choirmaster at St. Hilda's Parish Church, Middlesbrough.
Dr Corbett was pesonally responsible for bringing to the town many world-famous artists whose names are now legendary.
Type and size:    Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Document 2.27 MB