Front pages from a local newspaper during the Battle of Britain – link

I visited the archives of the newspaper I worked at in Birmingham, UK called The Birmingham Post. Tucked away in the depths are newspapers dating back to 1881, but I was heading for the Battle of Britain period.

Unfortunately, because they are so fragile now, they are not allowed to be removed from the binders that they are in, so I set a camera up (Nikon D2H with 50mm lens) on a tripod and photographed the main news page, which detail the attacks on Britain, and also reports other war zones.

The detail is quite amazing, and I’d like to point out that as these were written 67-years-ago, we have the benefit of hind-sight so any ‘historical’ inaccuracies….well…er…weren’t at that time!

I have done my best to keep the quality as good as I could, and every page is readable when zoomed to 100%. The .zip file contains the original size photos of the pages, un-cropped.

So if you fancy seeing what was being written through that period between the 2nd of September and 18th of September 1940, have a look at this file.

As I have said, the quality is the best I can keep it with the constraints I was given, but it was strange for me to read events, which at the time were being faced by real people, but which now is only found in History books.

Anyway, the .zip also contains some close-ups of war bond adverts of the time, and also (which I was amazed at to be honest) an aerial view of Buckingham Palace!

So at least the Germans would be able to ID it from the air then!

I have uploaded the file here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?15w2xtgfldy

If you download it, please take the time to reply to this post.”

Cheers, MP.