The file consists of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in XML format for one year of The Slaithwaite Guardian and Colne Valley News. The full digitised newspaper comprises no.1-52; 63-524 (13 Nov.1896 -5 Nov.1897; 21 Jan.1898 - 28 Dec.1906). The digitised page images are available on the British Newspaper Archive website, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/colne-valley-guardian The British Newspaper Archive pages images are behind a paywall, but from March 2021 the paywall will be lifted and some of these images will be eventually free to view. The last edition has not been digitised.
