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Beauty Queen Wanted

March 1938
Leeds Mercury - Saturday 26 March 1938 Beauty Queen Wanted When the Darfield and Low Valley Hospital Committee decided that a “Beauty Queen should be...

Threw Acid at Woman – Penal Servitude for Darfield Miner

March 1938
Leeds Mercury - Thursday 24 March 1938 Threw Acid at Woman Penal Servitude for Darfield Miner Walter Barton (52), miner, of Station Road, Darfield, near Barnsley,...

Wedding – Broke & Judd

April 1938
Mexborough and Swinton Times April 29, 1938 Miss Florence Evelyn Rooke, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Rooke, Edward Street, Darfield, was married at...

Darfield Urban Council – John Hill

April 1938
Mexborough and Swinton Times April 1, 1938 A feature of the Darfield Urban Council election on Saturday was the return of Mr John Hill, of...

Darfield Urban District Council – Mr Fred Bly

April 1938
Mexborough and Swinton Times April 1, 1938 Mr. Fred Bly, who was successful at the Darfield Council election, has served on  Darfield Council for a...

Hospital Queen – First Entrants

April 1938
Mexborough and Swinton Times April 1, 1938 Hospital Queen. Since an advertisement fora Darfield Hospital Queen appeared in the "South Yorkshire Times" a few weeks ago,...

Hospital Queen – More Entrants

April 1938
Mexborough and Swinton Times April 15, 1938 Hospital Queen. Here are more photographs of Darfield aspirants for the honour of becoming Darfield's Hospital Queen. All applicants wishing...

Darfield Women’s Keep-Fit Class

April 1938
Mexborough and Swinton Times April 1, 1938 To mark the end of the session members of the Darfield women's keep-fit class gave a display at...

Mr. Timothy Harding, of Darfield

May 1938
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 13, 1938 Congratulations to Mr. Timothy Harding, of Darfield, on attaining the eighty-second anniversary of his birthday. Born in Barnsley, he...

Wedding – Fenn & Davison

May 1938
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 20, 1938 Mrs Bertha Fenn, Edderthorpe Lane, Darfield and Mr Wilfred Davison, the Town Hall House, Wombwell