Newspaper records
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| Title of newspaper | Holdings |
|---|---|
| Advertiser | 1980 to 1982 |
| Bexley and Eltham Express | July 2000 to 25 May 2006 |
| The Bexley and Eltham Leader | July 1984 to June 2000 (incomplete 1985, 1986, 1991, 1995 and 1999) |
| Bexley Comet | July 1984 to May 1989 |
| Bexley Heath and Bexley Observer and Weekly Intelligencier | 1914 |
| Bexleyheath and Erith Observer | 1881, January 1892 to December 1895 |
| Bexleyheath and Welling Times | July 1987 to May 2004 |
| Bexleyheath, Bexley and District Times and Dartford Chronicle | January 1905 to December 1915 (lacks 1912) |
| Bexleyheath, Dartford and Erith Observer | January 1873 to 1880 |
| Bexleyheath, Erith and Sidcup Observer | 1882 to 1891, 1896 to 1913 |
| Bexley Extra | May 2004 to 16 May 2008 |
| Bexley Heath Observer | 1916 to 1933, 1938 to 1947 |
| Bexleyheath Observer | 1948 to June 1987 (lacks 1 May to 12 June 1975, not published January to February 1979, lacks 12 January 1984) |
| Bexley Heath Observer and Kentish Times | 1934 to 1937 |
| Bexleyheath, Welling and District Free Press | 17 June 1933 to 30 October 1937 |
| Bexley Times | 19 August 2004 to December 2018 |
| Crayford Chronicle | March 1965 to December 1967 |
| Dartford Chronicle (see also: Bexleyheath, Bexley and District Times and Dartford Chronicle) | July 1869 to 1872 |
| Dartford Express | 1898 to 1899 |
| Erith and Crayford Observer | July 1973 to December 1985 (lacks August, September, and December 1978, incomplete 1980) |
| Erith and Crayford Times | January 1986 to August 2004 |
| Erith, Belvedere and District Free Press | 15 November 1930 to 30 October 1937 |
| Erith Observer | 1907 to June 1973 |
| Erith Times | April 1883 to December 1895, January 1899 to 29 August 1919 |
| Insight (Thamesmead Community Association) | May 1970 to December 1987 |
| Kentish Independent | 1900 to 30 May 1985 |
| Kentish Times: Classified and Property Times | 1986 to 1989 |
| Mainline | 1982 to 3 January, 21 March 1985 to 14 November 1985 |
| The Mercury | January 1998 to November 2006 |
| The Mercury (Bexleyheath and Welling) | July to December 1994 (incomplete) |
| The Mercury (Sidcup and Bexley) | July to December 1997 (incomplete) |
| The Mercury (Sidcup, Bexley and Bexleyheath and Welling) | January 1989 to June 1990 |
| News Shopper | September 1967 to December 2018 |
| North Kent Argus | 1929 |
| The Record for Old Bexley, Bexleyheath, East Wickham, Welling | March 1929 to August 1939 |
| Sidcup Times | 1884 to April 1887, October 1888 to December 1985 |
| Sidcup and Blackfen Times | January 1986 to August 2004 (lacks 14 April 1988) |
| Thamesmead People | August 1994 to September 1999 |
| Thamesmead Post | 1974 to 1975 |
| Thamesmead Times | December 1987 to 1993 |