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Genealogy

1954 baby swap featured in Woman's Weekly

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MrsMortimer · 23/04/2021 22:34

We have a family legend about an accidental baby swap that happened at a hospital in Glasgow in August 1954.
The babies were later swapped back after the mistake was discovered!

I recently had a chat with an older family member who told me a story about being away in the army at the time of this baby swap, and receiving a page torn out of woman's weekly in a letter from home, with the story featured.

This has really piqued my interest and I would love to get hold of a copy or at least find a record of the article in an archive somewhere.
Having looked briefly online, there seem to be a lot of newspaper archives but I can't find a way to search old copies of woman's weekly. There are some 1950s copies for sale on eBay, but I have the extra complication of not knowing exactly which date I need - I'm assuming August or September issues from 1954.

Can anyone offer any advice to help me know where to look, or how to narrow my search?

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RaspberryCoulis · 24/04/2021 23:06

Wouldn't it be more likely that the story would be in the local paper and not a magazine? Evening Times is the local evening paper in Glasgow, the Glasgow Herald (or just The Herald) is a broadsheet daily. Daily Record also Glasgow based and more tabloid.

NaToth · 26/04/2021 18:10

I would check the Glasgow papers in the British Newspaper Archive.

SunshineCake · 28/04/2021 15:45

There is an app called Readly but I can't see how far back it goes at the moment. It has lotus of magazines, many I've never seen in the shops.

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