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Looking Back on 1952 – Beginning of a New Reign
South Yorkshire Times and Express – Saturday 3 January 1953
Looking Back on 1952
Beginning of a New Reign
South Yorkshire Scrapbook
1952 and 1953 will be linked...
Marconigrams – Saturday 14 June 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 14 June 1924
Marconigrams
The late Councillor John Robinson, of Wombwell, left estate of the value of £30,382.
The Order of...
Marconigrams – Saturday 07 June 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 07 June 1924
Marconigrams
The Wath Medical Officer holds that school parties for Wembley should be vaccinated.
The expensive tip we...
Marconigrams – Saturday 29 October 1960
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 29 October 1960
Marconigrams
The Queen has decided that November 13th shall be observed as Remembrance Sunday. The Two Minutes Silence...
Events of 1933
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 29 December 1933
Events of 1933
January
18—County Council fixed new scale of public assistance which caused widespread protests, several guardians'...
Editorial – The Merry Month
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 29 May 1943
The Merry Month
The merry month becomes more and more of a mockery for the Axis as the...
Editorial – Taken at the Flood
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 22 May 1943
Taken at the Flood
Mr. Churchill's Congress speech on Wednesday, while subject to the obvious limitations of the...
Editorial – Now For It
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 15 May 1943
Now For It
Whatever hopes the Germans had of making a Sebastopol of Bizerta or a Bataan of...
Editorial – Shadows Of Strife
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 08 May 1943
Shadows Of Strife
To those of us who have often looked askance at the sheer blatancy of German...
Editorial – Frightfulness
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 01 May 1943
Frightfulness
Primitive morality has long been a special attribute of the Axis powers, war reeks with examples of...
Marconigrams – November 6th 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 6th 1943
Marconigrams
The Swinton branch of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has been revived.
Coun. P.B. Nicholson,...
Marconigrams – Saturday 29 March 1913
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 29 March 1913
Marconigrams
The local places of entertainment have done big business during Eastertide.
Great developments are being made in...
The Coal War – Ballotting on the Proposed Partial Resumption of Work.
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 29 September 1893
The Coal War.
Ballotting on the Proposed Partial Resumption of Work.
Everything Quiet, Soldiers and Police Leaving the...
1960 in Retrospect – Flash-Back on Items of News Interest
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 07 January 1961
1960 in Retrospect
Flash-Back on Items of News Interest in an Eventful Old Year
Do You Remember These?
January
Hundreds of...
Wiser Now – Defective Tyres
South Yorkshire Times, November 3rd 1933
Wiser Now
“I ought to have had more sense,” was the remark made by William Watts, pony driver, Great Houghton,...
Widespread Grief & Sympathy – Heavy & Unexpected Blow
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 09 February 1952
Widespread Evidence of Personal Grief and Sympathy
A Heavy and Unexpected Blow
South Yorkshire heard the news of the...
Editorial – “Happy Returns” – Hitler’s Birthday
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 April 1943
“Happy Returns”
Hitler’s birthday, always a portentous rather than a cheerful anniversary, was a more hollow affair...
Editorial – The Budget
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 17 April 1943
The Budget
The Budget, over whose secrets we were wont to tremble, caused barely a ripple on...
Editorial – Coming Events
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 10 April 1943
Coming Events
An unmistakable tendency for the fighting in North Africa to impinge more and more on the...
Editorial – View Halloo
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 03 April 1943
View Halloo
Though it is not by any means over yet, the Battle of Tunisia has been...
Marconigrams – Saturday 22 February 1913
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 22 February 1913
Marconigrams
A property owners’ protection association is being formed at Wombwell.
The annual dinner of the Wath Cricket...
The Hull Coal Trade
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 15 February 1913
The Hull Coal Trade
The returns of the coal traffic through the Port of Hull for last...
The Hull Coal Trade
Mexborough and Swinton Times – Saturday 14 May 1904
The Hull Coal Trade
The return of the Hull Incorporated Chamber of Commerce and Shipping of the...
Marriages – Saturday 09 April 1904
Mexborough and Swinton Times – Saturday 09 April 1904
Marriages
Tyas–Oliver.—March 31st, at Mexboro’ Parish Church, Charles Robert Tyas, of Doncaster, and Edith Oliver, spinster, both...
Hull Coal Trade in February – Slight Decreases
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 07 March 1904
Hull Coal Trade in FebruarySlight Decreases
The usual return of the Hull Incorporated Chamber of Commerce and Shipping...