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Editorial – Four Years of War

11 September 1943
South Yorkshire Times, September 11th 1943 Four Years of War Looking back across four years of war, as we do to-day, we cannot help but...

Editorial – A Well Kept Watch

2 December 1944
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944 A Well Kept Watch On Sunday the Home Guard formally “stands down.” In the critical days which followed the Dunkirk...

Soldier – Ogden, Alfred – Soldier Traced.

July 1943
South Yorkshire Times, July 24, 1943 Soldier Traced. News has been received of Dvr. Alfred Ogden (22), of the R.A., third son of Mr. and Mrs....

Mr & Mrs Critchley – Golden Wedding.

July 1943
South Yorkshire Times, July 24, 1943 Golden Wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Critchley, 13,Green Gate Close, Bolton, celebrated their golden wedding on Monday. Both are natives of...

Soldier – Ogden, Alfred – Rescued From Japs

November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944 Rescued From Japs Gnr. Alfred Ogden R.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ogden, 20, Dane Street, Thurnscoe East,...

Soldier – Brown, Douglas – With Front Line Laundry

November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944 With Front Line Laundry Thurnscoe Man’s Unusual Job Laundrymen in battle-dress are doing valuable work in the mobile laundry and bath...

Editorial – Hard Pounding

November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944 Hard Pounding General Eisenhower, like Wellington at Waterloo, is seeing who can pound longer.  It is a test of many...

Editorial – Well Begun

17 July 1943
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 17 July 1943 Well Begun The Second Front, about which so much has been said and written, particularly since Mr. Churchill...

Marconigrams – July 17th, 1943

July 1943
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 17 July 1943 Marconigrams More than 100,000 road passenger transport workers in England and Wales will benefit by an agreement...

Hickleton 143 for 4 Doncaster Town 142 – Hickleton Square Accounts.

July 1943
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 10 July 1943 Hickleton Square Accounts. Doncaster, the only team who have gained a victory over Hickleton, were at Thurnscoe...

Second P.M. Settles Cause of Baby’s Death

November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 18th 1944 Second P.M. Settles Cause of Thurnscoe Baby’s Death No neglect at Montagu Hospital Evidence of a pathologist called in to...

Airman – Walker, Ronald – Airman’s Funeral

November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 18th 1944 Airman’s Funeral The interment took place at Thurnscoe on Friday of Sgt. Ronald Walker (22), R.A.F., son of Mr. and...

Soldier – Johnson T. – Prisoner In Borneo

March 1943
South Yorkshire Times, March 20, 1943 Prisoner In Borneo T. Johnson, son of Mr. D. Johnson and the late Mrs. Johnson, of 73 Main Street, Goldthorpe,...

Soldier – Hirst F. – Presumed Dead

November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 11th 1944 Presumed Dead Mr. and Mrs. S. Hirst of 11, Windsor Square, Thurnscoe East, whose son, Spr. F. Hirst was reported...

Editorial – America’s Choice

4 November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 11th 1944 America’s Choice President Roosevelt’s re-election for a fourth term as President of the United States is not surprising, but in...

Editorial – Election in the Air

4 November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 4th 1944 Election in the Air Since it seems that sooner or later we must resign ourselves to a resumption of the...

Splendid Boxing Show at Thurnscoe

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 28th 1944 Splendid Boxing Show at Thurnscoe The canteen at Hickleton Colliery was well filled on Saturday for N.C.A.B.A. rules in aid...

Editorial – Root and Branch

21 October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 21st 1944 Root and Branch If Hitler and Himmler have their way the war will go on for a good deal yet,...

Dearne District Agricultral  Society

September 1970
South Yorkshire Times, September 5, 1970 Dearne District Agricultral  Society Jayne Smith and Dawn Lowe, of Thurnscoe, following events with the aid of a programme at...

Three Months’ Sentence For Thurnscoe Soldier

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 14th 1944 Three Months’ Sentence For Thurnscoe Soldier Having been committed for trial from Halesworth Police Court, Pte. B. Inscoe (25), whose home...

Editorial – “White Paper” On Peace

14 October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 14th 1944 “White Paper” On Peace A White Paper on international security.  That description seems to fit the report on the Dumbarton...

Nurse Goes Overseas

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 7th 1944 Nurse Goes Overseas Nurse Florence Mary Marsh, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Marsh, of 15 Saxon Street, Thurnscoe,...

Editorial – A Winter Campaign?

7 October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 7th 1944 A Winter Campaign? With Christmas less than three months away and the Germans still hanging on grimly to their frontier...

“What We Have We Hold”

March 1933
South Yorkshire Times, March 10, 1933 “What We Have We Hold” Thurnscoe Victoria players chair their captain, Sid Mace, after winning the Mexboro’ Challenge Cup for...

The Great Blizzard

March 1933
South Yorkshire Times  March 3, 1933 The Great Blizzard The severest snowstorm in living memory broke over South Yorkshire on Friday afternoon and continued without intermission...