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Weekend Floods – In the Days of the Flood – ” Flood Friday.”

September 1931
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 11 September 1931 In the Days of the Flood " Flood Friday." The wettest summer in living memory culminated last...

Weekend Floods – Off to School on Monday Morning

September 1931
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 11 September 1931 Off to School on Monday Morning

Weekend Floods – Tragedy and Comedy

September 1931
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 11 September 1931 Floodlights.  Incidents of the Week-End. Tragedy and Comedy Though there are no reports from the urban districts...

A Batch of Minor Offences.

September 1931
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 25 September 1931 A Batch of Minor Offences. The Doncaster West Riding Bench Imposed the following fines on Tuesday: Drunk...

On Melton Hill – “Shifting Some,”

September 1931
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 18 September 1931 On Melton Hill. "Shifting Some" "I admit we were shifting some," was the remark alleged to...

Has The Tide Turned? – Trade Review – Coal, Iron & Steel, Brass, Glass,...

November 1931
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 20 November 1931 Has The Tide Turned? Can we bring back to the silent factories and workshops, to the derelict...

Thurnscoe Victoria’s Recent Record

November 1931
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 13 November 1931 Thurnscoe Victoria The record of Victoria for the last seven Saturdays is:— Sept.27—v Goldthorpe, 1 - 0, Sheffield...

Don and Dearne Valleys – Upward Tendency of Trade

December 1931
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 31 December 1931 Don and Dearne Valleys Upward Tendency of Trade General Confidence. In this mainly coal mining region the past year,...

Marconigrams – December 11th, 1931

December 1931
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 11 December 1931 Marconigrams Parliament adjourns to-day till Feb. 2. Hickleton Main will probably work every day up to Christmas, except...

Casualty List of 1931

January 1932
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 01 January 1932 Casualty List of 1931 January. 2— Dominic Gilmore (14), pony driver, 28 Braithwell St, Denaby, crushed and...