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’ committees refusing to function.
19—Mr. C. W. H. Peat, former head teacher of Swinton National School, and leader in local public life, dies at age of 71.
21—New junior and infant school opened at Mexborough.
22—Bolton Wesleyan Methodists celebrated jubilee of their church.
27—Lord Halifax saw his first “talkie,” Mr. Charles Hanmer’s Black Diamonds.
28—Modern infant school opened at Cortonwood.
February
10—Railway Queen (Miss Marjorie Goodall) visited Wath.
16—Lieut.-Colonel E. D. B. Johnson, M.C., retired from command of 5th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment.
24—South Yorkshire transport, phone and rail communications dislocated, and sporting and other events “washed out” by severest snowstorm of century.
Mr. and Mrs. George Rhodes, Lundhill, and Mr. and Mrs. Amos Ellison, Fitzwilliam, celebrated golden wedding.
March
13—Mr. Percy Priestley, former manager of Mexborough and Swinton Traction Company, died at Liverpool.
15—Labour members of County Council walked out in protest against Chairman’s ruling during debate on public assistance.
24—Body of Douglas Maw (10), of Mexborough, recovered from Don after seven weeks immersion.
26—Mr. and Mrs. W. Taylor, Hoyland, celebrated golden wedding.
28—Rev. Walter Dyer, vicar of High Melton, died.
31—Mr. Arthur Smith retired after many years as under-manager at Frickley Colliery.
April
19—Viscount Milton married in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, to Miss Olive Dorothea Plunkett.
Mexborough Urban Council appointed their first woman Chairman, Mrs. Marie Singleton.
Work resumed at Mitchell Main after threat of complete closure “owing to uneconomic conditions due to quota system.”
22—Mr. and Mrs. Evans, Wombwell, celebrated golden wedding.
23—Denaby Main Nursing Division celebrated silver jubilee.
28—Kilnhurst Colliery closed for rest of year for electrification of plant.
May
12—Local appointments to West Riding Bench announced: Mrs. Hardaker, South Elmsall; Mr. G. B. Hillier, Hemsworth; Lieut.-Colonel Landon, Wentworth; Mr. W. H. Marlow, Stannington; Mr. W. Matthews, Aston Hall; Mr. R. Morgan, Denaby; Mr. W. Parkes, Wath; Mr. C. Wannop, Rawmarsh; Mr. Wray, Conisborough.
At age of 94 Mr. Daniel Hamilton, died.
June
6—Miss Frances Hirst, daughter of Mr. G. H. Hirst, M.P., married at Darfield to Mr. J. W. Lovatt.
19—Presentation made at Wombwell Main to Mr. Peter Geoffrey Roberts, only son of Sir Samuel Roberts, M.P., Chairman of the Company, on coming of age.
22—High Mass held on lawn at Hickleton Hall in honour of Centenary of Oxford Movement.
26—Richard Dalton (12), Riley Road, Wath, killed by falling down disused pit shaft at Newhill while bird-nesting.
30—Mr. T. L. Soar retired from management of Barnburgh Main.
July
11—Departure for St. Ann’s of Mr. John Minnikin, retired agent of Hickleton Main, after thirty years notable service to Thurnscoe.
17—Mr. and Mrs. E. Drew, West Melton, celebrated golden wedding.
29—Canon H. F. Greenwood instituted vicar of High Melton.
September
2—Mr. Thomas Butterbusk Farm, Conisborough, well-known farmer and show judge, died at age of 77.
4—Mrs. Hatherley, wife of Dr. S. O. Hatherley, Medical Officer, Swinton, fatally injured while motoring in south of France.
18—“The Bonnet of Harworth Parsonage,” a play by John Davison, railway worker, Swinton, given successful premiere at Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
19—New by-product plant “lighted up” at Manvers Main.
30—Dearne District Light Railway taken over by Yorkshire Traction Company. Supt. V. Huddlestone succeeded Supt. A. J. Minty in charge of Doncaster West Riding police division.
October
5—Coming-of-age of Hon. Charles Wood, son of Lord Irwin, celebrated at Hickleton Hall.
7—Mr. Seth Kilner, Wombwell, head of famous cricketing family, died aged 68.
12—First meeting of reconstituted Wath Hospital Board on incorporation of urban authorities of Hoyland and Worsboro’.
18—Ald. G. B. Lomas-Walker elected Chairman of County Council.
20—John Mattocks, said to be “England’s oldest newsboy,” died at Wombwell aged 77.
21—Co-operative Party Federation, for political purposes, formed at conference of South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire co-operative guilds.
27—Canon Leveux, former Roman Catholic priest at Hemsworth and Denaby, died at Wakefield aged 71.
31—Bishop of Sheffield’s Appeal Fund closed: £113,378 raised.
Mr. P. H. Lloyd, assistant general manager, Manvers Main Collieries, married in London to Mrs. Emmanuel Victor.
November
14—Contract let for one of the largest primary schools in Yorkshire, to be built at Goldthorpe.
17—Mexborough and Swinton Traction Company announced proposals, for which a provisional order is being sought, for a trolleybus service from Rotherham to West Melton.
18—Rev. Frank Cook, vicar of Chapeltown, accepted living of St. John’s Park, Sheffield.
Mr. Herbert Smith, miners’ leader and ex-Mayor of Barnsley, regained in a by-election the seat he lost in the municipal elections.
21—Adwick on Dearne Church rededication after restoration.
28—Thurnscoe Urban Council decided to lease Lou Grange, Thurnscoe, from Hickleton Main Colliery Company, for municipal offices.
December
14 & 15—Prince of Wales visited Social Service centres in South Yorkshire, including those at Barnsley, Rotherham, Hemsworth and Penistone.