Local Newspapers

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Explore digitised collections of local material from Herefordshire’s libraries, archives and museums, including newspapers, photographs, burial records, historic maps, postcards and letters. Digitised newspapers include the Hereford Journal, Ledbury Guardian, Leominster News and

Kington Reporter. social activities of factory staff, and their contribution to the war effort including their work with Air Raid Precautions (ARP).”

1944

Puppeteer and director Frank Oz, who is best known as the voice of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Yoda, is born in Hereford.

1974

Herefordshire merges with neighbouring Worcestershire to form the administrative county Hereford and Worcester. This arrangement is dissolved in 1998.