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Editorial – Spendthrift

18 April 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 18 April 1942 Spendthrift The Budget is a present for a good boy. Those who are already putting their earnings into...

Editorial – Second Front

25 April 1942
South Yorkshire Times, April 25, 1942 Second Front The demand for the opening by the United Nations of a second front in Europe is not now...

Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Sympathy With District – Mine Minister’s...

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe Mine Minister's Message Sympathy With District Late on Saturday night Mr. Bell stated...

Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Earth Tremour

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe Earth Tremor Cuts Off District at Barnburgh Main Seventeen Men Entombed :...

Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – Six Feet High Plane Reduced To a Foot

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Six Feet High Plane Reduced To a Foot Leslie Thompson, one of the five men released from the...

Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – The First Man Rescued

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Matthew Fairhurst, of Thurnscoe, the first man to get out, photographed at his home with his wife and...

Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – The Last Two

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 The Last Two End of Five and a Half Days' Search The last two men, G. F....

Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe – The Men Involved

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Epic Rescue after Pit Catastrophe - The Men Involved The Men who Died The Men who Survived

Four Months After Accident – Mine Worker’s Death

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942 Four Months After Accident Thurnscoe Mine Worker's Death A verdict of "Accidental Death" was recorded by Doncaster...

South Yorkshire Colliery Disasters

May 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 02 May 1942