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Review of the Year – July to December

December 1913
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 27 December 1913 July Madman at large at Thurnscoe caused considerable commotion amongst the inhabitants, and was eventually removed to...

Review of the Year – January to June

December 1913
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 27 December 1913 A Bright and Happy New Year. January £200 raised by an important “Mythological” Church Bazaar, at Swinton, January...

Review of the Year – Preview

December 1913
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 27 December 1913 Review of the Year Before another issue of the “Times” reaches our readers the old year will...

Coal Conciliation Board

July 1904
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday, 16 July 1904 Coal Conciliation Board A meeting of the Coal Conciliation Board was held on Wednesday, to consider an...

South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade

October 1881
Mexborough & Swinton Times — Friday, 28 October 1881 South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade The quantity of coal sent from both the South...

Police Court Briefs

June 1934
South Yorkshire Times — Friday, 29 June 1934 Police Court Briefs At Barnsley on Friday, Wilfred Perks, miner, of Great Houghton, was fined 10s. and costs,...

Marconigrams — Friday, 22 June 1934

June 1934
South Yorkshire Times — Friday, 22 June 1934 Marconigrams Adjacent posters at Thurnscoe: "Beer Best," "Save Water." In the parish of Hampall Stubbs there was neither birth...

Marconigrams – Saturday, 12 June 1943

June 1943
South Yorkshire Times — Saturday, 12 June 1943 Marconigrams An exhibition lawn tennis match is being arranged on the courts of the Mexborough Athletic Club on...

Editorial – Mr. Churchill’s Return

12 June 1943
South Yorkshire Times — Saturday, 12 June 1943 Mr. Churchill's Return Mr. Churchill seems to derive additional vitality from travels which would be trying to a...

Editorial – Keeping Axis Guessing

5 June 1943
South Yorkshire Times — Saturday, 5 June 1943 Keeping Axis Guessing It is not surprising that hard news about the expected Allied invasion of the Continent...

Looking Back on 1952 – Beginning of a New Reign

January 1953
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

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

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

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

December 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

29 May 1943
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

22 May 1943
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

15 May 1943
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

8 May 1943
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

1 May 1943
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

March 1913
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

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.

September 1893
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

January 1961
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

November 1933
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,...