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Marconigrams – Saturday 28 June 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 28 June 1924
Marconigrams
The Dearne Valley District Light Railway will be opened, subject to the Board of Trade inspection...
Marconigrams – Saturday 14 June 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 14 June 1924
Marconigrams
The late Councillor John Robinson, of Wombwell, left estate of the value of £30,382.
The Order of...
Marconigrams – Saturday 21 June 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 21 June 1924
Marconigrams
Mexborough Feast opens this week-end.
It is in the hard school of life that men get the...
For This Relief, Much Thanks
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 22 October 1960
For This Relief, Much Thanks
With the Cadeby explosions of 1912 ever at the back of my memory,...
Marconigrams – Saturday 08 May 1943
outh Yorkshire Times – Saturday 08 May 1943
Marconigrams
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A Thurnscoe woman was sent to prison for a month at Doncaster on Tuesday for assaulting Mrs....
Editorial – The Merry Month
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 29 May 1943
The Merry Month
The merry month becomes more and more of a mockery for the Axis as the...
Editorial – Taken at the Flood
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 22 May 1943
Taken at the Flood
Mr. Churchill's Congress speech on Wednesday, while subject to the obvious limitations of the...
Editorial – Now For It
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 15 May 1943
Now For It
Whatever hopes the Germans had of making a Sebastopol of Bizerta or a Bataan of...
Yorkshire Council Cricket – Saturday 29 May 1943
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 29 May 1943
Yorkshire Council
Swinton Favourably Placed
After dismissing Thorncliffe cheaply at Thorncliffe on Saturday, Swinton had made a satisfactory beginning...
Editorial – Shadows Of Strife
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 08 May 1943
Shadows Of Strife
To those of us who have often looked askance at the sheer blatancy of German...
Marconigrams – Saturday 01 May 1943
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 01 May 1943
Marconigrams
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Wombwell Butchers are to present a cheque for £307 to the Red Cross at a dance they...
Editorial – Frightfulness
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 01 May 1943
Frightfulness
Primitive morality has long been a special attribute of the Axis powers, war reeks with examples of...
Events of 1933
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'...
Marconigrams – Saturday 31 May 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 31 May 1924
Marconigrams
A "Mayor's Parlour" has been provided at Wombwell Town Hall.
The "Hospital Sunday" season opens next Sunday...
Marconigrams – Saturday 10 May 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 10 May 1924
Marconigrams
The glass trade at Conisbrough is reported to be improving.
Miners are due to receive this week...
Marconigrams – Saturday 15 March 1913
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 15 March 1913
Marconigrams
The question of Urban Powers for Conisboro’ and Denaby is being revived.
The next issue of the...
Fraud Not Intended – Thurnscoe Relief Case Adjourned
South Yorkshire Times, November 3rd 1933
Fraud Not Intended
Thurnscoe Relief Case Adjourned
Charged with obtaining £9 15s. from the Don Valley Public Assistance Committee by false...
Armistice Parades – Militarist Or Pacifist?
South Yorkshire Times, November 3rd 1933
Armistice Parades
Militarist Or Pacifist?
Thurnscoe Discussion
Sharply divided views on Armistice Day parades and services were expressed at the meeting of...
The Coal War – Ballotting on the Proposed Partial Resumption of Work.
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 29 September 1893
The Coal War.
Ballotting on the Proposed Partial Resumption of Work.
Everything Quiet, Soldiers and Police Leaving the...
1960 in Retrospect – Flash-Back on Items of News Interest
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 07 January 1961
1960 in Retrospect
Flash-Back on Items of News Interest in an Eventful Old Year
Do You Remember These?
January
Hundreds of...
First Aid At Thurnscoe
South Yorkshire Times, October 13th, 1933
First Aid At Thurnscoe
The first annual social gathering of the Thurnscoe Division of the St John Ambulance Brigade. The...
Widespread Grief & Sympathy – Heavy & Unexpected Blow
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 09 February 1952
Widespread Evidence of Personal Grief and Sympathy
A Heavy and Unexpected Blow
South Yorkshire heard the news of the...
Editorial – “Happy Returns” – Hitler’s Birthday
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 April 1943
“Happy Returns”
Hitler’s birthday, always a portentous rather than a cheerful anniversary, was a more hollow affair...
Marconigrams – Saturday 24 April 1943
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 April 1943
Marconigrams
Rotherham Quarter Sessions will be held on Friday, April 30th.
Holidays at home will be arranged in...
Editorial – The Budget
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 17 April 1943
The Budget
The Budget, over whose secrets we were wont to tremble, caused barely a ripple on...