''The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate'', also

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as ''Gosford Times and Gosford & Wollombi Express'' and the ''Times-Herald'', was a weekly English language

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published in

Gosford, New South Wales Gosford is the city and administrative centre of the Central Coast Council (New South Wales), Central Coast Council local government area in the heart of the Central Coast (New South Wales), Central Coast region, about north of Sydney central ...

, Australia.

History

The newspaper was founded by publisher Alfred Higgs in 1883 with the title ''Gosford Times and Gosford & Wollombi Express''. In May 1906 the newspaper changed its title to ''The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate'', which it remained until 25 September 1961 when it changed its title to ''Times-Herald''. In May 1938 the paper absorbed the Gosford title ''Man on the Land.'' The paper was bought by the Henderson family in November 1962 who absorbed it in their paper ''Central Coast Express ''in December 1962.

Digitisation

The paper has been digitised as part of the

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project of the

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Availability

As at June 2016, the digitisation of ''The Gosford Times'' covers the years 1905 to 1954 in which copies of the newspaper are known to have survived. In addition,

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copies are available for the period from July 1897 to December 1904, and the years 1955 to 1962. There is also a microfilm reel with a few miscellaneous issues of ''The Gosford Times'' and ''Wyong Advocate''. During the period of its existence, there were two other newspapers from the

Central Coast (New South Wales) The Central Coast is a peri-urban region in New South Wales, Australia, lying on the Tasman Sea coast to the north of Sydney and south of Newcastle. The local government area of the Central Coast Council has an estimated population of 333, ...

for which copies survived, albeit in patches. Microfilm reels exist for ''The Guardian'' and ''The Wyong and Lakes District Advocate''.

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate, The Newspapers established in 1883 Publications disestablished in 1962 1883 establishments in Australia 1962 disestablishments in Australia Defunct newspapers published in New South Wales

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