Newspapers Searched

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