Nottingham Journal

The Courant lasted until 1769, when Samuel Cresswell bought it and in 1787 changed its name to The Nottingham Journal.

[1] In 1860 they occupied new premises on Pelham Street, Nottingham, built to designs by the architect Robert Clarke.

[3] The writer Graham Greene was a sub-editor on The Nottingham Journal before joining The Times; he then launched his career as a novelist.

[4] J. M. Barrie worked at the Nottingham Journal from 1883 to 1884 at three guineas a week, hand-writing daily leaders and Monday columns under the pseudonym Hippomenes, along with whimsical Thursday essays attributed to A Modern Peripatetic.

The impressions he gained from this period took tangible form in his novel of provincial life, When a Man's Single, which first appeared as a serial in the British Weekly.