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British Newspaper Archive
See the British Newspaper Archive home page for more details of this project including progress to date: a full list of titles published AND a list of additions in the last 30 days can be accessed from the 'Search by Newspaper' link: 'show all titles'.The indexing used in searches relies on Optical Character Recognition (OCR), so is not perfect (I suspect worse for older publications, where the print may not be so clear), but never-the-less this is a very valuable resource.
The search facilities are good and it is also possible to filter by publication title, date, region, county, place and type. Searching is free, accessing the original article is chargeable (there is a range of subscriptions).
Date coverage varies from title to title, the database includes entries from 1700-1999.
In 2012 a search showed 70,000 matches for 'Brentford':
34,000 being between 1850 and 1899
nearly 22,000 between 1900 and 1949
nearly 12,000 between 1800 and 1849.
Examples of Brentford stories
I hope to add a Brentford story each month, current list:- April 1854, 1884: painting at the Three Pigeons; charges against Benjamin Newman, High-street, Brentford, a shopman
- May 1885: Brentford and district Tramways Bill
- June 1862: Royal Horticultural Society's second fete
- July 1829: Coroner's Inquest, George Angel, aged 30
- August 1828: sale of farmland, Ealing
- September 1824: rebuilding of Brentford Bridge
- October 1927: fining of Emanuel Smith for an unregistered canal boat
- November 1846: death of a miser, Thomas Kane
- December 1805: proposals for paving part of the High Street
- January 1881, 1889 bizarre events leading to a 'singular fatality'; also short advert from a lady wishing to travel to India
- February 1847 a heroic rescue; names Grover (or Govey), Best and O'Hara
Published December 2011; last updated February 2013