Posted by Jock on December 18, 2011 at 06:54:36 user Jock.
In Reply to: Newspapers posted by John Nichols on December 17, 2011 at 07:54:52:
John's queries about plumbing are almost always guaranteed to generate a generous response from members of TarBoard's ram pump and tap washer Special Interest Group. Hwever, this time round, no one actually answered his specific question:
Our holdings of British national and provincial papers from the mid-19th century to the present are fairly comprehensive, although some gaps remain...
The British Library newspaper index can be searched free of charge; access to the full text of articles in behind a subscription door.