Description:Printed and published by the proprietors, Thomas Wood and W. B. Upcott, 7 Queen Street, Wolverhampton, the Wolverhampton Chronicle and General Advertiser for Staffordshire and the Midland Counties featured a wide variety of national and local news, notices and advertisements telling us about life in and around Wolverhampton in the nineteenth century.
The Sutherland Papers includes editions of the Wolverhampton Chronicle from March 1848 and May 1849. These editions of the newspaper feature notices relating to national politics and local public issues such as Bilston Turnpike Roads. In addition to these, advertisements for bizarre medicinal products and employment opportunities feature, telling us about local life at the end of the 1840s.
Missing Ponies!
The Wolverhampton Chronicle and General Advertiser featured advertisements from local tradesmen, local job opportunities and also general notices relating to the area. These notices included reports of local lost property such as horses who had gone missing. One such notice relates to a man named Mr. B. Williams of Monmore Green in Wolverhampton who had lost ‘two PONYS’ which had either been stolen or had strayed. The ponies are described as ‘one a dark brown, four years old, eleven and a half hands high, the other a bay, eleven and a half hands high, four years old, with long tail.’
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