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Curios Found in Gas Meters

January 1939
Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Friday 13 January 1939 Curios Found in Gas Meters The number of strange things used in the Wath, Thurnscoe and Bolton...

Roof Fall Caused By Bulging Tub

January 1939
Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Friday 27 January 1939 Roof Fall Caused By Bulging Tub A fatal roof fall at Hickleton Main Colliery on Tuesday, caused...

Busy Thurnscoe Woman

January 1939
Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 11 January 1939 Busy Thurnscoe Woman Few people can have had the distinction of serving on two municipal authorities at one...

Church Army Children’s Party

January 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 13, 1939 Smiles as well as solemn faces at a party arranged by local Church Army officials for Thurnscoe Children...

Pretty Thurnscoe Operetta – Children of St Helen’s Church Excel

January 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 13, 1939 Pretty Thurnscoe Operetta Children of St Helen’s Church Excel Two pictures taken at the centre Helen’s Church children’s concert on...

Beer for The Band at a Thurnscoe Dance – Prosecution for Selling Without Licence

January 1939
Leeds Mercury - Monday 16 January 1939 Beer for The Band at a Thurnscoe Dance Prosecution for Selling Without Licence Obadiah Rogerson (19), and Fred...

Thurnscoe Men Gaoled – Stole Eleven Electric Washing Machines

January 1939
Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Friday 27 January 1939 Thurnscoe Men Gaoled Stole Eleven Electric Washing Machines For stealing eleven electric washing machines, valued £275, Carmi Crannidge...

Editorial – “I Would” and “I Dare Not”

4 November 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 04 November 1939 "I Would" and "I Dare Not" Still, like the cat i' the adage would" waits upon...