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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...

Wedding – Agar & Kaye

February 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times, February 10, 1939 Miss Annie Elizabeth Agar, of 183, Houghton Road, Thurnscoe and Mr. Vincent Kaye, of 124, Longwood Road, Huddersfield at St....

Highgate Youth Killed At Hickleton – Damaged Tub Brings Down Roof

February 1939
South Yorkshire Times, February 3, 1939 Highgate Youth Killed At Hickleton Damaged Tub Brings Down Roof Should Not Have Been Coupled To Run An opinion that all tubs...

Wedding – Howell & Perry

March 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times, March 17, 1939 Miss Miss Margaret Howell, 32 Tudor St, Thurnscoe East and Mr Frederick Perry, Small Heath, Birmingham at Saint Hilda's Church,...