ON a busy and fast-moving newspaper it’s sometimes possible to get things wrong - but it’s not often that we’re 300 years out of date.
Carolyn Hillman, 67, and her brothers, Roger, 70, and Phillip, 64, found an old copy of the Wiltshire Times & News while clearing out their mother’s effects after Marion Tryner, 89, of Windsor Road, Melksham, died in April.
In a wardrobe they found an old trunk, containing a copy of the Times & News, as the paper was then known, dated Friday, October 18 1698 - instead of 1968.
Carolyn, of Bradford Road, Trowbridge, said: “We just had to laugh.
“We get used to seeing spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes in newspapers but never one that’s 300 years older than it should be.”
She remembers that when she was a young girl, the trunk was under her bed when the family lived in Pembroke Road, Melksham. The family cannot work out if Mrs Tryner had kept the paper for a reason or just used it as lining paper.
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