Cheshire Observer

A weekly newspaper circulating in Cheshire and north Wales that mainly published local news. The newspaper was established in 1854 by Henry Smith and Henry Mills, with the Cheshire and North Wales Newspaper Company becoming proprietors in 1891. Originally a politically neutral newspaper, by the late 1850s it was a liberal newspaper and by the 1890s a conservative one. The newspaper ceased publication in 1989. Associated titles: Cheshire Observer and Chester, Birkenhead and North Wales Times (1863); The Chester Observer (1979).

COPYRIGHT: UNKNOWN

FREQUENCY: Weekly

PUBLISHER: Published and printed in Chester by James Albert Birchall in 1871, by Robert Dennis in ca.1895, and by the Chester Observer between 1987 and 1989.

ISSUE DATES: 1900 - 1908

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Title Information
Title	Cheshire observer
Type of Resource	text
Genre (marcgt)	newspaper
Genre ()	English newspapers-Wales, North.
Origin Information
Place
Place Term: Code (MARC Country Code)	enk
Place
Place Term: Text	Chester
Publisher	James Albert Birchall
Publisher	[Chester Observer]
Date Issued	1871-1979, 1987-1989
Date Created: Start (encoding="marc")	1871
Date Created: End (encoding="marc")	1979
Frequency	Weekly
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)	eng
Physical Description
Form (marcform)	print
Extent	v. : ill. ; 69 cm.
Abstract (lang="cy")	Papur newydd wythnosol a oedd yn cylchredeg yn Swydd Gaerlleon a Gogledd Cymru. Cyhoeddai newyddion lleol yn bennaf. Sefydlwyd y papur newydd yn 1854 gan Henry Smith a Henry Mills, gyda Cwmni Papur Newydd Swydd Gaerlleon a Gogledd Cymru yn berchnogion wedi 1891. Yn wreiddiol 'roedd yn bapur newydd gwleidyddol diduedd, erbyn diwedd y 1850au 'roedd yn bapur newydd rhyddfrydol ac erbyn y 1890au yn un ceidwadol. Cyhoeddwyd y rhifyn olaf yn 1989. Teitlau cyslltiol: Cheshire Observer and Chester, Birkenhead and North Wales Times (1863); The Chester Observer (1979).
Abstract (lang="en")	A weekly newspaper circulating in Cheshire and north Wales that mainly published local news. The newspaper was established in 1854 by Henry Smith and Henry Mills, with the Cheshire and North Wales Newspaper Company becoming proprietors in 1891. Originally a politically neutral newspaper, by the late 1850s it was a liberal newspaper and by the 1890s a conservative one. The newspaper ceased publication in 1989. Associated titles: Cheshire Observer and Chester, Birkenhead and North Wales Times (1863); The Chester Observer (1979).
Note: date/sequential designation	Began with issue for: No. 965 (4 Feb. 1871). Ended with issue for: 21 June 1989.
Note	Description based on issue for: Vol. XLV, no. 2353 (11 Sept. 1897).
Note: issuing body note (lang="cy")	Cyhoeddwyd ac argraffwyd yng Nghaer gan James Albert Birchall yn 1871, gan Robert Dennis yn ca.1895, a gan y Chester Observer rhwng 1987 a 1989.
Note: issuing body note (lang="en")	Published and printed in Chester by James Albert Birchall in 1871, by Robert Dennis in ca.1895, and by the Chester Observer between 1987 and 1989.
Note	Continues from 1979 to 1987 as: Chester observer, and reverted in 1987 to: Cheshire observer.
Subject (LCSH)
Topic	Newspapers
Temporal	19th century
Subject (LCSH)
Topic	Newspapers
Temporal	20th century
Subject (LCSH)
Geographic	Cheshire (England)
Genre	Newspapers
Related Item: preceding
Title Information
Title	Cheshire observer and Chester, Birkenhead and North Wales times
Related Item: succeeding
Title Information
Title	Chester observer
Record Information
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languageOfCataloging
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)	eng

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