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Highgate Crash

January 1939
Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Friday 13 January 1939 Highgate Crash As the result of a motor accident on the main Doncaster-Barnsley road at the Water...

Annual Fancy Dress Parade for Hospitals

January 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 13, 1939 The children in the front row were prizewinners at the annual fancy dress parade organised by Mrs CH...

Wedding – Carr & Martin

January 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 6, 1939 Miss Margaret Joan Car, Coronation Street Darfield and Mr Charles Arthur Martin, George Street, Low Valley at Darfield Parish Church

Wedding – Whitehead & Gawthorpe

January 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 13, 1939 Miss Maud Whitehead, Victoria Hotel, Snape Hill, Darfield and Mr William James Goldthorpe, Edward Street, Darfield at Darfield Parish Church

Fate of Historic Old Hall at Houghton

January 1939
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 14 January 1939 Fate of Historic Old Hall at Houghton One of the most interesting old houses in South Yorkshire...

Snow, Ice, Fog and Floods in South Yorkshire

January 1939
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 03 January 1939 Winter Again Cuts Off Northern Villages Flooding Threat in Sheffield Area Blizzards swept the North of England...

Former School Street Pupil to Appear in Jessie Matthews Show

January 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 20, 1939 Former School Street Pupil to Appear in Jessie Matthews Show Once upon a time there attended the Ellis School...

Darfield Woman Identifies Dead Husband – Brighton Tragedy Recalled

January 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 13 January 1939 Tattoo Marks Clue Darfield Woman Identifies Dead Husband Brighton Tragedy Recalled The story of how she was...

Tattoo Marks Clue – Identifies Dead Husband

January 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 13, 1939 Tattoo Marks Clue Darfield Woman Identifies Dead Husband Brighton Tragedy Recalled The story of how she was able to identify her...

Editorial – “I Would” and “I Dare Not”

4 January 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 04 November 1939 "I Would" and "I Dare Not" Still, like the cat i' the adage would" waits upon...