The copies of Radley News and its predecessors held in the Radley History Club Archive are now available to download as PDFs from the Club’s website.
- Predecessors of Radley News (Church Monthly, Radley Parish Magazine and Radley News Supplement)
How times have changed: the front covers below are from an issue of the Radley Parish Magazine in 1947, the first ever issue of Radley News in January 1971 and a more recent front cover of Radley News, now in full colour.
The price of the monthly Radley News has also changed over the years. When it was first published in 1971 it cost 10p. The very modest increase to 11p in 1979 was obviously not enough because the price jumped to 14p in 1980 and then in 1982 went to 15p. The next big jump was to 25p in 1988 and then to 30p in 1989. The price held steady at 30p until 2005 when it went up to 40p. 2010 saw a price increase to 50p and 2014 to £1 – a price that holds to this day.
The price of the first issue of Church Monthly back in 1895 was 1d (one old penny)!