Description:A group of Cannock Advertiser staff during trip to Blackpool. Included are: Ken Harrison, Ernie Jones, Frank Arrowsmith (back row, far right), Iris Withington (middle row, 5th from left), Miles Withington (middle row, 4th from left) and Alice Mary Ann Withington (middle row,3rd from left).
The Cannock Advertiser was founded in June 1878 by Alfred Withington. He set up a printing business at 71 High Green, Cannock and opened a stationers shop soon after. The business stayed in the Withington family for three generations, until it was sold to West Midlands Press in 1964. Miles and Iris Withington continued as directors for a number of years, although the newspaper was by this time printed in Walsall.
Photographer: Turnbull, Blackpool.