Johnb Davidson News Today

The community leader started Davidson Drugs in 1958, founded and published the Pelican Press and tirelessly served his fellow islanders.

As we reach the milestone of the 8000th issue of the "Friend", I look back with the help of our archivist, Barry, to find out about our previous “People's Friend” Editors, from 1869 til the present day

That mystery? Image by DC Thomson Ltd. The above timeline is taken from our 150th Anniversary Special. As you can see, for such a long-running magazine, we’ve had relatively few people in the editor’s chair. That’s what makes the uncertainty even  harder to bear! A new candidate Previous research has suggested our wartime editor could have been a man named John B Davidson. Recent work from the folks in our Archives has potentially proven that to be the case for at least a few years —...