The Wharncliffe Companion to Ipswich by Robert Malster

Author:Robert Malster
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783408399
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2013-05-31T00:00:00+00:00

IPSWICH BUILDING PRESERVATION TRUST

See Building Preservation Trust

IPSWICH BUILDING SOCIETY

See Freehold Land Society, Ipswich & Suffolk

IPSWICH JOURNAL

One of the earliest local newspapers in Britain, the Ipswich Journal was established by John Bagnall ‘at the Printing Office in St. Mary-Elms’ in 1720. It was later published by William Craighton, printer and bookseller at the Stationers’ Arms in the Buttermarket, and when he died in 1761 his sister Elizabeth and a nephew, William Jackson, carried on producing the paper. As a result of a dispute following Jackson’s bankruptcy two rival versions of the Ipswich Journal appeared from 1774 to 1777, Mrs Craighton publishing the Original Ipswich Journal and another printer producing the Ipswich Journal.

For one week in 1867 when the Royal Show was held at Bury St Edmunds, the Journal came out every day, giving it a claim to be the first daily paper in the region, special staff being brought in from London to produce the newspaper. It was a commendable experiment that was stifled by the inability to carry it further due to lack of financial resources. The Journal ceased publication in 1902.

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