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Marconigrams – Saturday 29 March 1913

March 1913
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 29 March 1913 Marconigrams The local places of entertainment have done big business during Eastertide. Great developments are being made in...

Marconigrams – Saturday 22 March 1913

March 1913
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 22 March 1913 Marconigrams This year, spring begins on Good Friday. A new picture palace is to be opened at Wath...

Marriages & Deaths – 01 September 1893

September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 1 September 1893 Marriages. Goode—Bradley.—August 20, at the Register Office, Barnsley, James Albert Goode to Elizabeth Bradley, both of Darfield. Johnson—Parkes.—August...

The Coal War – Ballotting on the Proposed Partial Resumption of Work.

September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 29 September 1893 The Coal War. Ballotting on the Proposed Partial Resumption of Work. Everything Quiet, Soldiers and Police Leaving the...

Distress in the  District – Relief Works.

September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 22 September 1893 Distress in the  District Relief Works. CONISBOROUGH. On Wednesday relief in the shape of soup and bread was distributed...

1960 in Retrospect – Flash-Back on Items of News Interest

January 1961
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 07 January 1961 1960 in Retrospect Flash-Back on Items of News Interest in an Eventful Old Year Do You Remember These? January Hundreds of...

Marconigrams – November 3rd, 1933

November 1933
South Yorkshire Times, November 3rd, 1933 Marconigrams "Anything for an unquiet life—that’s the modem slogan."—Mr. Ingleby Oddie. October was the best trading month in the Yorkshire coal...

Joie de Vivre

October 1933
South Yorkshire Times, October 27th 1933 Joie de Vivre Still full of the joie de vivre Abraham Hesketh, a native of Low Valley, visits his relatives...

Editorial – “Happy Returns” – Hitler’s Birthday

24 April 1943
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 April 1943 “Happy Returns” Hitler’s birthday, always a portentous rather than a cheerful anniversary, was a more hollow affair...

Marconigrams – Saturday 24 April 1943

April 1943
Mexborough & Swinton Times Marconigrams Rotherham Quarter Sessions will be held on Friday, April 30th. Holidays at home will be arranged in most industrial areas this summer. Royston...

Editorial – The Budget

17 April 1943
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 17 April 1943 The Budget The Budget, over whose secrets we were wont to tremble, caused barely a ripple on...

Editorial – Coming Events

10 April 1943
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 10 April 1943 Coming Events An unmistakable tendency for the fighting in North Africa to impinge more and more on the...

Editorial – View Halloo

3 April 1943
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 03 April 1943 View Halloo Though it is not by any means over yet, the Battle of Tunisia has been...

Marconigrams – Saturday 16 February 1924

February 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 16 February 1924 Marconigrams Mr. G. H. Hirst, M.P., of Darfield, who has been ill, is recuperating at Bridlington. No house...

The Hull Coal Trade

February 1913
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 15 February 1913 The Hull Coal Trade The returns of the coal traffic through the Port of Hull for last...

The Hull Coal Trade

May 1904
Mexborough and Swinton Times – Saturday 14 May 1904 The Hull Coal Trade The return of the Hull Incorporated Chamber of Commerce and Shipping of the...

Marconigrams – Saturday 07 May 1904

May 1904
Mexborough and Swinton Times – Saturday 07 May 1904 Marconigrams The cuckoo was heard at Warmsworth on Sunday week. Another case of small pox has been notified...

Marriages – Saturday 09 April 1904

April 1904
Mexborough and Swinton Times – Saturday 09 April 1904 Marriages Tyas–Oliver.—March 31st, at Mexboro’ Parish Church, Charles Robert Tyas, of Doncaster, and Edith Oliver, spinster, both...

Hull Coal Trade in February – Slight Decreases

March 1904
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 07 March 1904 Hull Coal Trade in FebruarySlight Decreases The usual return of the Hull Incorporated Chamber of Commerce and Shipping...

Editorial – The Coal Strike.

August 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 11 August 1893 The Coal Strike. So far as South Yorkshire generally is concerned the state of affairs is practically...

The Great Strike

August 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 04 August 1893 The Great Strike All the pits were set down last Friday, and implied that the great strike...

South Yorkshire Collieries & Hull Coal Trade.

August 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 18 August 1893 South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade. The return showing the quantity of coals sent to...

Mexborough & District Collieries & Hull Coal Trade

July 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 14 July 1893 Mexborough and District Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade Yesterday the official return showing the quantity of...

The South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade in 1881

January 1882
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 20 January 1882 The South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade in 1881 The annual return relating to the...

Obituary – John Bouskill

October 1933
South Yorkshire Times, October 13th, 1933 Darfield Bouskill Mr. John Bouskill (88), New Street, Darfield. died in the Sheffield Infirmary on Friday after an unsuccessful operation...