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Pit Lad Wins Scholarship – From Billingley To Oxford

June 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - June 9, 1939 Pit Lad Wins Scholarship From Billingley To Oxford To Study Economics Eric Ashwood (22), of Pond House Billingley, near Darfield,...

Wedding – Greenwood & Hague

June 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 9, 1939 Miss Joyce Greenwood, 16 Barnsley Road, Darfield and Thomas Hague, Pear Tree Avenue, Thurnscoe At Darfield Parish Church

Wedding – Harry & Jenkins

June 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 9, 1939 Miss Dorothy Parry, 96 Barnsley Road, Darfield and Mr Thomas Hubert Jenkins, Ainsworth, Bolton, Lancashire at Darfield Parish Church

Wedding – Short & Williams

June 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times Friday, June 2, 1939 The Rev. H. Drown officiated on Saturday at the marriage at All Saints', of Miss Rosa Short,...

Darfield Hospital Carnival

June 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times Friday, June 2, 1939 Joan of Arc and King Coal in the procession at the Darfield Hospital Carnival on Tuesday.

Darfield Hospital Carnival Crowd

June 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times Friday, June 2, 1939 A section of the huge crowd attracted to the Darfield Hospital Carnival on Tuesday

Darfield Infants School Sweet Pea Queen

June 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times, June 30, 1939 Brenda Latham (left), who was crowned Sweet Pea Queen on Tuesday by Enid Lane, last year's Violet Queen,...

Darfield’s Hospital Queen.

June 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 2, 1939 The Mayoress of Barnsley crowning Darfield's second Hospital Queen.  

Royal Visit – Duke Talks to Plotholders

June 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times, June 30, 1939 An intimate study of the Duke talking to plot-holders at Darfield. The youngster in the foreground was evidently more...

Royal Visit – Great Day for Darfield – Wombwell Gets a Glimpse

June 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times, June 30, 1939 Great Day for Darfield Child Guard of Honour, For Royal Visit Talk To "Colonists" Children of Darfield, numbering something like a...