The Seabrook town crest: a shield edged with rope, showing a gold lighthouse, a sailing boat and an anchor, the date 1324, and the motto on a ribbon beneath.

newspaper office

The Chronicle Office

Advertisements and letters accepted. A number of letters are already in hand.

The Seabrook Chronicle is the town’s weekly newspaper, a thin broadsheet. Its office is on the High Street. The editor is Mr Gareth Price.

The paper reports council business, planning applications, the weather and school sport, and prints letters from readers. A photograph of a resident holding a large marrow appears in most years.

The office is modest: desks, a layout table and filing cabinets full of back issues. It smells of paper and, faintly, of old ink. The archive goes back more than a hundred years, with the exception of 1956, which was lost when the former office burned down.

Classified advertisements and letters are received at the front desk or by post until noon on Tuesday. A box with a thin black border may be had on request. Letters for publication must carry a name and address, and not every letter received can be printed.

Details

Address
High Street, at the western end
In charge
Mr Gareth Price, editor
Hours
  • Monday to Friday, 9 to 5

On the map

Marked on the town map as “The Seabrook Chronicle”.

Find it on the map of Seabrook

Appears in

  1. Book 0Prequel A Small Matter of a Missing Cat
  2. Book 1 Murder at Seabrook Pier

What the locals say

“It’s mostly parking charges and marrows. I’ve not missed an issue in forty years.”

Elsewhere in Seabrook

  • private investigator

    Penrose’s Office

    Up the stairs at the back of the bookshop. The eighth one creaks.

  • solicitors

    Drummond and Hale

    Wills, probate, conveyancing and leases. No criminal work is undertaken.

  • doctors’ surgery

    Seabrook Medical Centre

    General practice. Telephone at 8 for an appointment. The line may be engaged.

The whole Seabrook directory

Holmes wisdom: Penrose once opened a tin of sardines he believed to date from 1987. Holmes raised no objection.