Proud to be local for 127 years
Published Date:
08 May 2008
By Free Press reporter
STARTING a newspaper - and an English language one at that - in the Vale of Clwyd in the 1880s must have been a calculated gamble.
But the man who did it, Charles Cottom, was that rarest of birds, a newspaperman and a businessman.
He had come from Shrewsbury to Denbigh in 1871 as the Vale of Clwyd correspondent for the Wrexham Guardian and must have seen that there was a niche in the market which could be cornered.
If it was a gamble then it was a brave one but Mr Cottom evidently believed in the 'in your face' approach to competition.
There was already a paper in Denbigh, the Welsh language Y Faner, published in Vale Street by the godfather of Welsh literature, Thomas Gee.
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08 May 2008 1:24 PM
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