Market Rasen Mail
The changing face of the Market Rasen Mail. I am always on the look out for any old editions. If anyone has any editions gathering dust anywhere, please get in touch. Here is a brief history of the Mail..
- 1856 - 1st edition 20 Sep started by Richard Hackett, printer bookseller and paper hanger of Waterloo St and Queen St.
- 1870 - Sold to Thomas Hulme Whittingham who carried on the Rasen Mail Office at 30 Queen Street
- 1915 T.H. Whittingham entered into a partnership with Thomas Benson Baty - Whittingham & Baty was formed
- 1947 - Teddy Sharpe bought Whittingham & Baty
- c 1957 - Mr Sharpe bought W.K. Morton & Son merging the Mkt Rasen Mail, Horncastle News and Louth Leader under the same roof. Printing of the Rasen Mail moved from 7/8 Waterloo Street to Horncastle
- 2001 - the Morton newspapers were bought by Johnston Press
Market Rasen Mail - 3 November 1900
This is the earliest edition of the Rasen Mail that I have to date, now proudly framed and hung on the wall. Many thanks to Sue Ranby for the kind donation.