| Birmingham Daily Post: 4 December 1857 to 29 September 1900 | |
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| The Birmingham Daily Post was founded in 1857, offering a new form of provincial newspaper, renowned for its large readership, liberal values and its role in fostering civic pride in the fourth largest city in England. In Henry Fox Bourne's 1887 book English Newspapers: Chapters in the History of Journalism he describes how the Post "has both interpreted and educated the temper of this thriving and enterprising part of England". | |
| The daily paper was sold for only 1d, making it one of the first newspapers to offer a cheap source of news to a mass audience. The proprietors, John Frederick Feeney (and later his son) and John Jaffray also published the Saturday paper, The Birmingham Journal, and founded The Saturday Evening Post explicitly for working-class readers. From 1870 these titles formed a single daily eight-page newspaper. "Jaffray Feeney and Company" had many press rivals, the most serious of which was the Conservative Birmingham Daily Gazette, but the comprehensive coverage offered by these newspapers was unique. | |
| KING EDWARD VI.'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Birmingham Daily Post (Birmingham, England) Saturday, July 12, 1873 Issue 4678 Category: News |
Bath Row School … Writing … 2nd class, Emily Ramsdale |
| SPORTS Birmingham Daily Post (Birmingham, England) Monday, September 1, 1884 Issue 8165 Category: Sports |
Football … Walsall Swifts v Wolverhampton Wanderers … friendly match … Swifts … forwards … Ramsdale and Horton |
| NEWS Birmingham Daily Post (Birmingham, England) Saturday, December 27, 1884 Issue 8266 Category: News |
Fatal Ice Accident: Two boys, named Garlington and Ramsdale, were drowned on Thursday night at Chorley. They were sliding on a frozen pit when the ice gave way. A man called Kirk who attempted to rescue them had a narrow escape. |
| NEWS OF THE DAY Birmingham Daily Post (Birmingham, England) Friday, April 26, 1889 Issue 9621 Category: News |
At Maidenhead Petty Sessions yesterday, Joseph Bonnie, alias "Black Joe", was charged on remand with having burgulariously entered Ramsdale, the residence of Mr Henry White, secretary to the United States Legation, and stolen £4,000 worth of jewellery. After further evidence the magistrates decided that there was not sufficient evidence to convict Bonnie, and ordered him to be discharged. |
| BIRMINGHAM QUARTER SESSIONS Birmingham Daily Post (Birmingham, England) Wednesday, October 23, 1861 Issue 1016 Category: News |
Stealing Scale Beams |
| SPORTS Birmingham Daily Post (Birmingham, England) Tuesday, March 16, 1858 Issue 73 Category: Obituary |
Died … On the 11th inst., at Victoria Cottage, Wednesbury, aged 41 years, Mary Ann, the beloved wife of Mr William Horton, late of Great Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia |