Anyone keen on looking through the first ever issues of the Tenby Observer, will find their task a whole lot easier in future, with the recent introduction of a new viewing system at Tenby Library. Provided by the Newsplan 2000 Project, the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Regional Newspaper Industry, the Kodak Microfilm scanner and printer system allows people to view and even print out pages from Tenby Observer editions dating back from 1853 up to 1950, making the job of looking back at the history of the town through the pages of the 'paper a lot easier as they are stored and filed on reels of microfilm. The British Library has also been given copies of the microfilm reels, with Tenby Library in Greenhill Avenue also looking to eventually transfer old editions of the Observer onto CD Rom in the future. Seen above is an edition of the Tenby Observer from May 7, 1870, brought up on screen on the new microfilm system at Tenby Library.
