Nottingham Daily Express

The Nottingham Daily Express was a local newspaper published in Nottingham between 1860 and 1918. It was a radical, liberal and strongly Nonconformist newspaper.
It was published from 4 Jan 1860 to 6 April 1918. It continued as the Nottingham Journal and Express 8 Apr 1918 – 5 Sep 1953 (incorporating the long dormant copyright of Nottingham Journal which had been purchased from William Bradshaw in 1887). It was amalgamated with the Nottingham Guardian and subsequently published as the Guardian Journal.
The Nottingham Daily Express was based in a building on Upper Parliament Street in Nottingham designed by the Nottingham based architect Watson Fothergill. The ethos of the paper was marked by the inclusion over the door of images of the Liberal politicians Richard Cobden, William Gladstone and John Bright. With their prominence as leaders of the Anti-Corn Law League (1838–46) these were suitable subjects for the Liberal newspaper to commemorate. Inside the entrance...