The Runcorn Examiner (1870-1954) was a weekly newspaper and years 1870-1920 have been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.
The file consists of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in XML format for one year of The Runcorn Examiner. The full digitised newspapers comprises 2 Apr.1870 � 19 Aug.1876 (Runcorn and Widnes Examiner), 6 Jan.1877 � 24 Dec.1920 (Runcorn Examiner). The period 1921 - 1954, after which the title was discontinued, has yet to be digitised. The digitised page images for years 1870 - 1920 are available on the British Newspaper Archive website, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/runcorn-examiner The newspaper continued until 1901, but this has not been included in the dataset due to copyright considerations. The British Newspaper Archive pages images are behind a paywall, but from March 2021 the paywall will be lifted and some of these titles will eventually be free to view.
