APART FROM GOSSIP THATS HOW YOU FID OUT WHATS GOING ON

Please oh please add the Thurrock Gazette

The Gazette was always read cover to cover. The certain way of getting us interested in local events

Digitisation of the Thurrock Gazette (and the earlier forms of the newspaper) would not only be of benefit to individuals browsing the newspaper out of curiosity or performing their own research, but would preserve the important historical aspect of a local newspaper for researchers working on social history.

It is great to see the votes rising to get the Thurrock's main newspaper in all its guises digitized and preserved for the future. We are fortunate to have 1889 to 1908 online already. The paper kept its name until c1936, when the name changed to Essex and Thurrock Gazette till 1965. The paper became Thurrock Gazette in 1966.

The Thurrock Gazette has always been such a great source of information for me as the Project Manager of a Tilbury Chairty. I also use the Thurrock Gazette for advertising any events that I arrange ffor Tilbury. This paper would be a great paper to add to your line.

I am part of Thurrock Museum volunteer team, the Thurrock Gazette is an important tool for me and the other volunteers researching facts and information. However, the newspapers are now very frail and are disintegrating. We have inquires from across the world. This would be a great paper to add to your line.

I use this paper for research but how much easier it would be if it was online. The newspapers we use are very frail and delicate. It is very informative local paper full of great news and stories. This would be a great paper to add to your newspapers on line.

I am part of a volunteer team at Thurrock Museum and we are working on a six year project to commemorate the 80th anniversary of World War 2. Access to the Thurrock Gazette is vital for our research as we focus on the local community. We completed a similar project to recognise the 100th anniversary of World War 1 and the newspapers from those years are now very fragile. It would be excellent to have online access, and would support our home research

This newspaper would greatly enhance the research process for local historians. I would love to see the paper and all its antecedents available digitally. The hard copies in our local museum archive are quite frail and vulnerable, heavily used as they are.

Thurrock Museum supports this request!

This local newspaper that has covered events of national significance including the landing of the Empire Windrush, contemporary understanding of the Blitz and key events of the 20th century.

The Gazettes are the most consulted item in our archive, viewed daily by volunteers and researchers (pre-Covid) - we'd love to see them online so research can continue with people safe and secure at home.

It would be great if the Grays & Tilbury and Thurrock Gazette were digitised as I could then search the archived editions as I can some or the other papers reporting Grays events where I found reports of my dad running in a race at the Oddfellows Sports day on the Grays Rec.!

The paper once did an article on the best dressed road sweeper on the job he was Sidney Carter. Would like to find article and picture was sometime in the 60/70

You probably know that Thurrock Museum holds a complete set of microfilms of this newspaper from 1880. I think it would be a great idea if these could be digitised so that they could be made widely available.