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The Cumberland Free Press
''The Cumberland Free Press'' was a short-lived weekly Australian newspaper published and printed in Parramatta, New South Wales, with a coverage extending across the Inner West, Western Sydney, Western and Northern Suburbs, North West regions of Sydney. The paper was first published on 22 June 1895 and ceased publication in March 1898. History ''The Cumberland Free Press'' was published by John Black and Company, located in Church Street, Parramatta. The company had been founded in 1895 by John Black, George B. Davey and William Henry Hillis, three former employees of ''The Cumberland Mercury'', a newspaper that had recently been absorbed by ''The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers' Advocate''. The first edition of the paper was issued on Saturday, 22 June 1895, with the masthead proclaiming that the newspaper was "devoted to the interests of and circulating extensively throughout the electorates of Electoral district of Parramatta, Parramatta, Electoral district of Granvill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cumberland Free Press 5 June 1897
Cumberland ( ) is an area of North West England which was Historic counties of England, historically a county. The county was bordered by Northumberland to the north-east, County Durham to the east, Westmorland to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Scotland, Scottish counties of Dumfriesshire and Roxburghshire to the north. The area includes the city of Carlisle, part of the Lake District and North Pennines, and the Solway Firth coastline. Cumberland had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974, when it was subsumed into Cumbria with Westmorland as well as parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire. It gives its name to the unitary authority area of Cumberland (unitary authority), Cumberland, which has similar boundaries but excludes Penrith, Cumbria, Penrith. Early history In the Early Middle Ages, Cumbria was part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde in the Hen Ogledd, or "Old North", and its people spoke a Brittonic languages, Brittonic language now calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |