If it happened, it was in the news.
Interwar broadcasting · editorial standards · communications technology On the evening of 18 April 1930, listeners to the BBC’s evening bulletin heard an announcement that has since passed into legend: “Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news.”[1] For the remainder of the scheduled news slot, the BBC played piano music. In an […]
Illustrated Police News – Thursday 04 January 1923 DIVORCE COURT. A WIFE’S MATERNAL WAIL. Rather unusual features were presented by a case in the Divorce Division in which Mr. Leo Alexander Lancaster-Gaye, of Brighton, and late of Ventnor, Isle of Wight, petitioned for a divorce from his wife Aida because of her misconduct with Jack Ewens, otherwise […]
Tewkesbury Register – Saturday 31 October 1931 PETTY SESSIONS Monday. — Before Colonel A. Dugdale (chairman), Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. Clarke, Major R. C. Freer, and Mr. J. Watton. Armistice Dinner. — Permission was given to the British Legion Club to keep open until 12 p.m. on November 11th on the occasion of their annual dinner. Two Poachers […]
