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Breakfast with Bishop – Deanery Welcome for Dr L. S. Hunter

December 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times December 16, 1939 Breakfast with Bishop Wath Deanery Welcome for Dr L. S. Hunter The clergy of the Rural Deanery or Wath-on-Dearne extended...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – 9th December 1939

December 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 09 December 1939 Montagu Hospital The Week's Casualty List Admitted cases:— Monday Aubrey Bullars, 12, 1 Deightonby Street, Thurnscoe, injury...

Montagu Hospital – Week’s Casualty List – 23 Dec 1939

December 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 23 December 1939 Montagu Hospital The Week's Casualty List Admitted Cases: Sunday: James Nee, Lodging House, Mexborough, multiple fractures, road...

Soldier – Rowe, Edward Victor – Army Athlete

December 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times – December 9th 1939 Army Athlete Edward Victor Rowe, of Windsor Street, Thurnscoe East, is at present in Gibraltar. An old pupil...

Soldier – Francis D. – “Feeling Fine”

December 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times December 16, 1939 "Feeling Fine" Driver B. Francis (18), son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis, of 7, Landsdown Avenue, Thurnscoe, joined the...

Soldiers – Hichcliffe H. & Sales B. – Wants His Darts

December 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times December 16, 1939 Wants His Darts Two Thurnscoe men serving in France are Lance Bombardier H. (Paddy) Hinchcliffe, third son of Mr....

Editorial – Grey Goebbels

2 December 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 02 December 1939 Grey Goebbels Dr. Goebbels, speaking at a "Strength Through Joy" concert, spoke of the "fresh sorrows that...

Editorial – “Guilty, But Insane”

9 December 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 09 December 1939 "Guilty, But Insane" The Bolshevik invasion of Finland is a turning-point in the war and in...

Editorial – Alas, Poor Ghost!

16 December 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 16 December 1939 Alas, Poor Ghost! The intervention of the League of Nations in the Russo-Finnish dispute came as...

Editorial – Recipe for a Happy Christmas

23 December 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 23 December 1939 Recipe for a Happy Christmas Twenty-two years have rolled by and again we face a war...