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Editorial – Four Years of War
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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”
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
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...