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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...

A Sleek Champion

January 1932
South Yorkshire Times, Friday, January 8th, 1932 A Sleek Champion Blue Dutch owned by F Ricksby of Thurnscoe, which had a triumphant day at Rotherham Fur...

Four Generations at Thurnscoe.

January 1932
South Yorkshire Times, Friday, January 8th, 1932 Four Generations at Thurnscoe. Mrs Willits, of Lidgett Lane, Thurnscoe, with the representative of the fourth-generation, Walter James; her...