South Yorkshire Times, September 16th 1944
Marconigrams
Wombwell U.D.C. have served notice to quit on one of their tenants who has not properly cultivated his garden.
Major Denys Hardy, of Thurnscoe, an old boy of Wath Grammar School, has been promoted Staff Major at the early age of 25. He is serving in India.
Since the beginning of July, no less than 623 special L.M.S. trains conveying nearly half-a-million evacuees left London (Euston and St. Pancras Stations), for the Midlands and the North.
Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, in Quebec, on Tuesday, celebrated the 36th anniversary of their wedding day.
The death has occurred at Keynsham (Somerset) of Miss Beatrice Mary Raine Harrop, formerly of Swinton, one of the donors of Harrop Gardens. The funeral takes place at Swinton at noon to-morrow (Saturday).
The oil painting of Mr. Joseph A. Hall, J.P. President of the Yorkshire Mineworkers’ Association, to be presented to-morrow (Saturday) is to be exhibited for a time in the Chamber of Wombwell U.D.C of which he is a member.
The late Mr. Edward Wingell of 9, Mellor Road, Wombwell retired canal inspector, who died on 9th July 1944, left estate of the gross value of £732 15s. and testator by his will bequeathed the residue of his estate, amounting to £615/6/10, to the Barnsley Beckett Hospital and Dispensary, to be applied for the general purposes of the Hospital.