Hawkesbury Herald
The Hawkesbury Herald was a weekly English language newspaper published in Windsor, New South Wales, Australia for the Hawkesbury River community.
History
[edit]The first issue of The Hawkesbury Herald was published on 24 April 1902 by William Henry Pinkstone and Frederick William Collison.[1] Pinkstone and Collison published the newspaper until 1940.[1] The newspaper continued to be published after 1940 until 1945 when it was merged into the Windsor and Richmond Gazette.[1] The Windsor and Richmond Gazette is now published as the Hawkesbury Gazette.[2][3] The newspaper was circulated in townships along the Hawkesbury River including Windsor, Richmond, Castlereagh and Marsden Park.[1]
Digitisation
[edit]The newspaper was digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Hawkesbury Herald (Windsor, NSW : 1902 - 1945)". Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ "Windsor and Richmond Gazette (NSW : 1888 - 1954)". Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ "Hawkesbury City Council Library Service Local Studies Fact Sheet 9: Newspapers" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
External links
[edit]- Hawkesbury Gazette
- Hawkesbury Herald (Windsor, NSW : 1902 - 1945) at Trove
- Press timeline: Select chronology of significant Australian press events to 2011
- The birth of the newspaper in Australia
- Isaacs, Victor, Kirkpatrick, Rod and Russell, John (2004). Australian Newspaper History: A Bibliography
- Isaacs, Victor; Kirkpatrick, Rod, Two hundred years of Sydney newspapers: A short history, Rural Press Ltd.