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Killed In Raid.

May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 May 1941 Killed In Raid. Miss Mona Bedford (21), grand-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Wistow, The Bungalows, Edderthorpe...

Soldier – McArdle – Darfield Lads

May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 31 May 1941 Darfield Lads Three sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. McArdle of Coronation Street, Darfield, are serving in...

Editorial – Recoil

3 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 03 May 1941 Recoil Once again Mr. Churchill has been called upon in an hour of black discouragement to rouse...

Editorial – Less Talk

10 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 10 May 1941 Less Talk The House of Commons debate, intended to be an inquest on the ill-fated expedition to...

Editorial – Rudolf Hess

17 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 17 May 1941 Rudolf Hess Rudolf Hess is a welcome gift in one sense, for he comes as light...

Editorial – Crete

24 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 May 1941 Crete The strategic necessities of the struggle in the Near East made it imperative for the...

Editorial – Hard Punches

31 May 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 31 May 1941 Hard Punches The loss of H.M.S. Hood, blown up by a single shell with practically all hands,...

Two Saved – One Drowned

June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times  June 28, 1941 Two Saved - One Drowned At an inquest at Darfield on Monday a 12 year old pupil of Wath...

Darfield Heroin

June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times  June 28, 1941 Eileen Woodcock, of Darfield (right) the Wath Grammar School girl who rescued two children who were in danger...

Editorial – The Tragedy of Syria

June 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 21 June 1941 The Tragedy of Syria Against brave resistance bred of loyalty to a bad cause, we are...