Papers Past 45th Anniversary

45 years in the business and still going strong!

I am pleased and proud to announce that Papers Past will celebrate their 45th year in business on 1st March 2026.

It was back in 1981 that I saw an advertisement in "Exchange and Mart" for Old Newspapers. I travelled up to North Wales and met Ed. Jones who was selling big volumes of "Times" Newspapers and I loved the sight and smell of the papers so bought some. Over the years whole large collections of newspapers were offered to me by Libraries and Government Departments.

They were selling them off as they had bought reels of microfilm of the newspapers so no longer needed to hold the originals. Tons and tons were brought back and held in store waiting for our wonderful customers to request a Special Date Newspaper for a Birthday or Anniversary.

It has been my job to find those dates and post them out and what a fascinating job it has been. I still sit and read the old news reports and adverts and hope to continue solving customers gift buying problems by sending out many more newspapers in the future.

Ian.