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PB0 Abbreviations & Notes for Database v3
Notes
Since batches are compilations of earlier files there is uniformity of format within each file but differences between batches, eg row height usually 17.4 but can be 20
Prefix letters & numbers for notes & footnotes removed from batches for database but kept in my working files, SEE references also removed
My preference for places has been pre 1974 counties & recent districts, for towns & cities taking account of local authorities & distance from centre – most outer suburbs usually not included. As this will be related to the mapping system, it will be best if my decisions are replaced by whatever works for the mapping system.
All places stated to be Liverpool believed to be Liverpool local authority, the other places in this file are Northern outer suburbs believed to be in Sefton local authority; Eastern outer suburbs excluded & in St Helens & District Word file
Where I have put ? this means either not reported or report unclear, occasionally not clearly legible.
Notes & statistics in separate file –only sample file for Liverpool sent at this stage. Hopefully these can be used at some stage but would require further checking & editing.
I have checked for accuracy as far as I can, especially to ensure dates are correct. There will inevitably be some mistakes & discrepancies (some arising from the original newspapers) but I hope they will be at an acceptably low level. I think these files are now more logically organized & hopefully easier to understand. Given the limits of my stamina & only basic expertise at Excel, I do not think I can improve them any further.
Batches 1 to 5 expecting few future additions & amendment from Guardian post July 1941. I am working on Batch 6 Bury, Salford & Wigan area & Batch 7 Manchester (676 names so far) – these will have significant new names & some amendments post July 1941 from Guardian (for most titles approx. 80% of names found before mid 1941.
I would like if possible to get as much of Lancashire on the new database as we can – ideally up to 3,000 – but have no idea how long the process will take. It should be easy enough to add new names & amendments later from Guardian from August 1941 + Rosendale & Stockport papers. New names will be straightforward to add. For amendments or additional information, might it be easier to substitute the whole row in the database? I am doubtful whether it is worth adding solely reference to an additional source, when there is no additional information
Tribunals (all replaced by full place name)
AT = Appellate tribunal place not specified,
BM = Birmingham tribunal,
BW = Bristol tribunal
CA = Cardiff Tribunal,
CE = Cambridge Tribunal,
CHAT = Chester Appellate tribunal,
CN = Carlisle tribunal,
DAT = Durham Appellate tribunal,
LE = Leeds tribunal,
LAT = London Appellate tribunal,
LELT = Leicester Local tribunal,
LNW = Liverpool tribunal,
NT = Lancaster tribunal,
LOT = London tribunal,
LSE – London& South Eastern Tribunal,
LT = Local tribunal place not specified,
MT = Manchester tribunal, MAT = Manchester appellate,
NE = Newcastle Tribunal,
NM = Nottingham Tribunal,
PRT = Preston tribunal,
SAT = Southport Appellate tribunal
Newspapers
Abbreviation & Title
ACA = Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser
AEE = Aberdeen Evening Express,
AG = Arbroath Gazette
AH = Arbroath Herald
ALDN = Aldershot News
APE = Aberdeen People’s Journal,
APJ = Aberdeen Press & Journal,
ATHN= Atherton News & Herald
AWA = Alderley & Wilmslow Advertiser
AWJ = Aberdeen Weekly Journal,
AYA = Ayrshire Advertiser
AYP = Ayrshire Post
BA = Berwick Advertiser or Brechin Advertiser
BANA = Banbury Advertiser
BANE = Barrow News
BATC = Bath Chronicle
BDE = Beeston Gazette & Express
BE = Burnley Express
BET = Bedfordshire Times or Barnoldswick & Earby Times
BEXO = Bexhill Observer
BFP = Bury Free Press (Suffolk)
BGE = Beeston Gazette & Echo
BIC = Biggleswade Chronicle
BIDG = Birmingham Saily Gazette
BIM = Bitminham Mail
BIDP = Birmingham Daily Post
BJ = Bolton Journal
BJLA = Bo’ness Journal & Linlithgow Advertiser
BLN = Blyth News
BN = Bolton Evening News
BNGA – Berwickshire News & General Advertiser
BOC = Burton Chronicle
BOG = Boston Guardiam
BOGRO = Bognor Regis Observer
BOUTD = Bournemouth Times & Dircectory
BT = Blackburn Times
BU = Bury Times
CA = Clitheroe Advertiser
CADH = Caernarvon & Denbigh Hereld
CAJ – Carlisle Journal
CC = Chester Chronicle
CDN = Cambridge Daily News (to 31/12/39-
CFC = Chelmsford Chronicle
CHAN or CN – Chatham News
CHEC = Cheltenham Chronicle
Cheshire Observer
Chester Chronicle
CHIO = Chichester Observer
CIP = Cambridge Independent Press (ro 31/12/390
CL = Coatbridge Leader
CLG = Carluke & Lanark Gazette
CO = Chatham Observer
COCH = Coleshill Chronical
COET = Coventry Evening Telegraph
COVH = Coventry Herald
COVS = Coventry Standard
CRC = Crewe Chronicle
CRDO = Crawley District Observer
CROYA = Croydon Adveriser
CROYT = Croydon Times
CS = Cleveland Standard
CSOG = Central Somerset Gazette
DAA = Dalkeith Advertiser
DC = Dundee Courier,
DDT = Derby Daily Telegraph
DET = Dundee Evening Telegraph,
DGM = Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough
DGS = Dumfries & Galloway Standard
DH = Daily Herald
DIE = Diss Express
DMI = Daily Mirror ( not searched systematically)
DR = Daily Record,
DORKA = Dorking Advertiser
DOVE or DE = Dover Express
DR = Daily Record,
DRT = Derbyshire Times
DWSM = Deal, Walmer & Sandwich Messenger
EACH = Eastbourne Chronicle
EADT = East Anglian Daily Times
EASH = Eastbourne Herald
EASTG = Eastbourne Gazette
EE or EEE = Evening Echo Exeter
EEN = Edinburgh Evening News
EKG = East Kent Gazette
EKTM = East Kent Times & Mail
EN = Essex News
EPGZ = Exeter & Plymouth Gazette
EVD = Evening Dispatch, Birmingham
EVES = Evesham Standard
FAVN or FN = Faversham News
FCH = Flintshire County Herald
FELT = Felixstowe Times
FFP = Fife Free Pres
FH = Frazerburgh Herald
FJ = Farnworth Journal
FKH = Falkirk Heraold
FLC = Fleetwood Chronicle
FKHC or FKHCH = Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald
FORG = Forward Glasgow at Mitchell Library Glasgow
FRI = The Friend
FW = Farnworth Journal
GDT = Grimsby Daily Telegraph
GEN = Glasgow Evening News to 31/5/40 at Mitchell Library,Glasgow
GH = Glasgow Herald
GJ or GRJ = Grantham Journal
GLOC = Gloucester Citizen
GLOE = Gloucester Echo
GOP = Govan Press at Mitchell Library Glasgow
GRET = Grimsby Telegraph or Greenock Telegraph at Watt Institution Greenock
GRJ = Grantham Journal
GUA = Guardian
HAAD = Hampshire Advertiser
HAE = Haverhill Echo
HAMT = Hampshire Times
HASTO = Hastings & St Leonatds Observer
HBP = Herne Bay Press
HDM = Hartlepool Daily Mail
HEC = Halifax Evening Courier
Helensburgh Times to10/40 at Helensburgh Library
HESO = Herts & Essex Observer
HEWA = Herald of Wales (usually same reports as SWDP)
HIN = Highland News,
HiNE =Hinckley Echo
HINT = Hinckely Times
HUDE = Huddersfield Examiner
HNDM = Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
HUDM = Hull Northern Daily Mail
INC = Inverness Courier,
KEEX or KE = Kentish Express
KESC or KSC = Kent & Sussex Courier
KH = Kilmarnock Herald or Kirkintilloch Herald
KINT = Kington Times
KM = Kent Mercury
KMGT = Kent Mercury & Gravesend Times
LA = Lynn Advertiser
LBO = Leighton Buzzard Observer
LDM = Leicester Daily Mail
LDP = Liverpool Daily Post
LEA = Long Eaton Asvertiser
LEC = Liverpool Echo
LEE = Liverpool Evening Express
LEIC = Leicester Chronicle
LEM = Leicester Evening Mail
LEP = Lancashire Evening Post,
LG = Lancaster Guardian or Linlithgow Advertiser
LIE = Lincolnshire Echo
LIFP = Lincolnshire Free Press
LIM = Lichfield Mercury
LIP = Liverpool Evening Post,
LITTG = Littlehampton Gazette
LM = Leeds Mercury or Leven Mail
LNCP = Lynn News & County Press
LOS = Louth Standard
LSBG = Lincolnshire Standard & Boston Guardian
LUN = Luton News
MA =Midlothian Advetiser
MABR = Montrose, Arbroath & Brechin Review,
MACT = Macclesfield Times
MAHA = Marker Harborough Advertiser
MAIT or MT = Maidstone Telegraph
ME =Merthyr Express
MEN = Manchester Evening News
MICT = Midland Counties Tribunal
MG = Morecambe Guardian
MH = Milngarvie Herald
MIDST = Mid Sussex Times
MS = Montrose Standard
MT = Motherwell Times
NC = Newcastle Chronicle
NDT = Northern Daily Telegraph
NEC = Newcastle Evening Chronicle
NG = Neath Guardian
NEP = Nottingham Evening Post
NJ = Newcastle Journal,
NL = Nelson Leader
NMAD = New Milton Advertiser
NOJ = Nottingham Journal,
NORET or NRET = Northampton Evening Telegraph (to 31/12/39)
NORM = Northampton Mercury
NUNC = Nuneaton Chronicle
NWH = Northern Whig (not searched systematically)
NWIH = North Wiltshire Herald
NWWN = North Wales Weekly News
OBAT = Oban Times
OEC = Oldham Evening Chronicle
OH = Orkney Herald
ORA = Ormskirk Advertiser,
OWC = Oldham Weekly Chronicle
PA = Perth Advertiser
PEST = Peterborough Standard
PG = Paisley & Renfrewshire Gazette at Paisley Heritage Centre
PJI = Press & Journal Inverness
PO = Penrith Observer or Pontypridd Observer
POEN = Portsmoith Evening News
REAM = Reading Mercury
REAS = Reading Standard
RHH = Rhos Herald
RHIF = Ripley Herald & Ilkeston Free Press
RO = Rochdale Observer
RUGA = Rugby Advertiser
RUT = Rugeley Times
RWN = Runcorn Weekly News,
SALIT = Salisbury Times
SCET = Scunthorpe Evening Times
SDE = Sunderland Daily Echo
SDG = Shields Daily Gazette
SDN = Shields Daily News,
SEFP = Sufffolk & Essex Free Press
SEVC or SCKA = Sevenoaks Courier and Kentish Advertiser
SHRG or STG = Sheerness Tines & Guardian
SKN = Skegness News
SKS = Skegness Standard
SLG = Sleaford Gazette
SNE = South Notts Echo
SO = Stirling Observer
SOGRO = Somerset Gazette & Radstock Observer
SPG = Spalding Guardian
SS = Staffordshire Sentinel
SSN = Stapleford & Sandiacre News
SSNE = Sunday Sun Newcastle
STA = Staffordshire Adveriser
STAH = Stratford on Avon Advertiser
STEX – Stockport Express
SURAD = Surrey Advertiser
SURMI = Surrey Mirror
SUSEX = Sussex Express
SWDP = South Wales Daily Post
SWG = South Wales Gazette
SWJ = Swinton & Pendlebury Journal
SWWN = Saffron Waldon Weekly News
TAH = Tamworth Herald
TAUC = Taunton Chronicle
TEWR = Tewksbury Register
THAD or TA = Thanet Advertiser
TOPF or TFP = Tonbridge Free Press
TORE = Torbay Express
TORT = Torbay Times
TUEX or TE = Tuesday Express (Kent)
WAWA= Warwick & Warwickshire Advertiser
WBCA =West Briton & Cornwall Advertiser
WEG or WG = Western Gazette
WELM = The Welshman
WET = Western Times
WLC = West Lothian Courier
WILTN = Wiltshire News
WJ = Westhoughton & Horwich Journal
WM = Western Mail
WMN = Western Morning News
WO= Walsall Observer
WOES = Wolverhampton Express & Star
WOKT = Wokingham Times
WORH = Worthing Observer
WP = Wishaw Press
WSUG = West Sussex Gazette
WTHB or WTHBH = Whitstable & Herne Bay Herald
WTTA = Wiltshire Tines & Trowbridge Advertiser
YEP = Yorkshire Evening Post
YP = Yorkshire Post
Abbreviations Retained
Ave = Avenue
C of E = Church of England
Co-op = Co-operative Society
Govt = Government
1st = first
JW = Jehovah Witness
RC = Roman Catholic
Rd = Road
Rev = Reverend
s= shilling
St = Street
Other abbreviation of which there were very many should have been replaced by full words, using find & replace function
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