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Marconigrams – Saturday 15 March 1952
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 15 March 1952
Marconigrams
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A rate of 24s. in the £—and an increase of 3s.—has been declared at Darfield.
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Armour plate castings...
Marconigrams – Saturday 08 May 1943
outh Yorkshire Times – Saturday 08 May 1943
Marconigrams
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A Thurnscoe woman was sent to prison for a month at Doncaster on Tuesday for assaulting Mrs....
Editorial – The Merry Month
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 29 May 1943
The Merry Month
The merry month becomes more and more of a mockery for the Axis as the...
Editorial – Taken at the Flood
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 22 May 1943
Taken at the Flood
Mr. Churchill's Congress speech on Wednesday, while subject to the obvious limitations of the...
Editorial – Now For It
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 15 May 1943
Now For It
Whatever hopes the Germans had of making a Sebastopol of Bizerta or a Bataan of...
Marconigrams – Saturday 15 May 1943
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 15 May 1943
Marconigrams
Latest investments have brought the final figure for Swinton Wings for Victory Week to £67,195.
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The President of...
Editorial – Shadows Of Strife
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 08 May 1943
Shadows Of Strife
To those of us who have often looked askance at the sheer blatancy of German...
Editorial – Frightfulness
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 01 May 1943
Frightfulness
Primitive morality has long been a special attribute of the Axis powers, war reeks with examples of...
Wedding – Myers & Larvan
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 01 May 1943
Myers–Larvan
Miss Joyce Myers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Myers, of 41, Gower Street, Wombwell, was married...
Events of 1933
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 29 December 1933
Events of 1933
January
18—County Council fixed new scale of public assistance which caused widespread protests, several guardians'...
Marconigrams – Saturday 31 May 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 31 May 1924
Marconigrams
A "Mayor's Parlour" has been provided at Wombwell Town Hall.
The "Hospital Sunday" season opens next Sunday...
Marconigrams – Saturday 29 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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...