Kentish Gazette..
Folded broadsheet. Title decorated with vignettes of royal arms and Kent and Canterbury arms, etc. Red newspaper stamp at top. Newspapers and other periodicals are always offered subject to the usual wear and tear associated with ephemeral items. Major condition issues will be described but minor tears, creases and folds are not mentioned unless it affects legibility. Notice of the life and death of the Duke of Kent, father of Princess Victoria, in black borders.
£15.00
Details
COLD KILLS OYSTERS
Publisher
Kentish Gazette, Charles Petman Rouse, George Kirkby and James Lawrence.,
Place
Canterbury
Date
1820
Synopsis
No. 5386 friday, january 28, 1820.
Item Description
BROADSHEET NEWSPAPER. 14.75 x 19.75 inches. [4] pp.
Notes
Original issue of this newspaper containing a fascinating variety of notices and advertisements on the front page; the inside and back pages are a mixture of national and Kentish news and a Corn Exchange section which supplies corn and other commodity prices. News from abroad noted another possible attempt to liberate Bonaparte from St Helena and in Chile, Lord Cochrane's squadron, armed with Congreve rockets, sailed out to attack the Spanish fleet in Callao Roads. In Kent the late severe frost had caused heavy losses of oysters in the creeks of the Swale and Medway and in the Whitstable and Seasalter grounds In Gravesend a ground collapse revealed ancient chalk pits thought to be of Roman origin. Farmers and carmen were reminded of the law requiring ownership details to be clearly displayed on the bodies of their vehicles as informers were reporting unmarked vehicles to the magistrates in the hope of reward.
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