Newspapers

The Evening Gazette Launched in Middlesbrough in November 1869, the Gazette was reputed to be the first half-penny evening newspaper in Britain. Run on strong Liberal lines by Hugh Gilzean Reid, its early format included only four pages of local news..

The Darlington & Stockton Times A Liberal, weekly newspaper, founded in Barnard Castle in 1847. It was the brainchild of Liberal philanthropist and barrister, George Brown, who sought to challenge the Tory monopoly of the the press in the region..

The Northern Echo A Liberal, half penny daily newspaper, founded in Darlington in 1870. It was started by John Hyslop Bell at the behest of local industrial magnates, the Peases, largely to counter the political outpourings of rival newspapers, the Darlington & Stockton Times and the Darlington Mercury..