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The Hull Coal Trade – Returns for 1892

January 1893
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Friday 06 January 1893 The Hull Coal Trade The Returns for 1892 The j returns for December and for the all of last...

Editorial – Price of Peace

27 May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 27th 1944 Price of Peace Mr. Churchill’s opening of the debate on Foreign Affairs in the House of Commons on Wednesday, contained...

Marconigrams – May 20th, 1944

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 20th, 1944 Marconigrams Eighteen defendants from Wombwell, Blacker Hill, Darfield and Great Houghton were fined 7s 6d each at Barnsley on Monday...

Editorial – In Good Hands

20 May 1944
 South Yorkshire Times, May 20th, 1944 In Good Hands After a general lull in active land operations, fighting has again broken out in Italy.  This time...

Editorial – Labour at Loggerheads

13 May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 13th, 1944 Labour at Loggerheads The Labour Party could hardly have chosen a less appropriate time to stage a political squabble. Mr....

Soldier – Wigley, Harold – Prisoner in Japanese Hands

July 1943
South Yorkshire Times, July 10, 1943 Prisoner in Japanese Hands After a silence of eighteen months, Mr and Mrs Henry Wigley have had news that...

Editorial – Neutrality

6 May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944 Neutrality Neutrality is not an absolute state. It has infinite variety.  The war has gone on long enough to demonstrate...

Editorial – Finance and the Future

29 April 1944
South Yorkshire Times April 29th 1944 Finance and the Future Sir John Anderson's Budget withheld the last straw. Our national economy is now so finely adjusted...

Editorial – Waiting for the Zero Hour

1 April 1944
South Yorkshire Times April 01st 1944 Waiting for the Zero Hour Waiting for zero hour is always apt to be a trying experience. It tests the...

South Yorkshire Coal Strike – Majority of Miners Still Out

April 1944
South Yorkshire Times, April 8th, 1944 South Yorkshire Coal Strike Majority of Miners Still Out Despite a resumption of work at some pits the strike in the...

Editorial – Shadow and Substance

22 April 1944
South Yorkshire Times, April 22nd, 1944 Shadow and Substance Surely no campaign in the history of warfare has ever been so well advertised as the Second...

Nelson League Games – Middlecliffe’s Wonderful Run

17 February 1933
South Yorkshire Times - Friday 17 February 1933 Nelson League Games Middlecliffe's wonderful run in the Nelson League has focussed attention on this rather obscure little...

Marconigrams – February 17th, 1933

February 1933
South Yorkshire Times - Friday 17 February 1933 Marconigrams. "'Flu" is a lower middle-class form of influenza The rainfall in this area during January was 2.26...

Colliery Veterans – Three Old Servants of Hickleton Main

February 1933
South Yorkshire Times Friday 10 February, 1933 Colliery Veterans Three Old Servants of Hickleton Main After giving over a hundred years' service between them, three...

Chaos in the Coalfield

April 1944
South Yorkshire Times, Saturday, April 1st, 1944 Chaos in the Coalfield Far from there being any improvement in the coal situation in South Yorkshire the position...

Sailor – Hall, Robert – Sailor’s Escape

March 1944
South Yorkshire Times, March 25th, 1944 Sailor’s Escape One of the survivors of a warship sunk while on convoy escort duty, Petty Officer Robert Hall, (23),...

Sailor – Briscoe, Harold K. – Seeing the World

March 1944
South Yorkshire Times, March 4th, 1944 Seeing the World Able-Seaman Harold K. Briscoe, Great Houghton Able-Seaman, Harold K. Briscoe, of John Street, Great Houghton, spent his third...

Notable Service at Darfield

February 1944
South Yorkshire Times February 26, 1944 Notable Service at Darfield With 53 year’s service in pit work to his credit, Mr Robert Randerson (66), 76 Nanny...

King & Queen Tour of Yorkshire Coalfields – Pithead Canteen Lunch

February 1944
South Yorkshire Times, February 12th, 1944 King and Queen Tour of Yorkshire Coalfields Pithead Canteen Lunch at Elsecar Queen’s Interest in Hickleton Production Feats In the course of a...

Wedding – Rushforth & Bladen

January 1943
South Yorkshire Times January 9, 1943 Mr. W. Maiden (Gt. Houghton) and Miss B. Rushforth (Darfield). Miss Betty E. Rushforth, youngest daughter of Mrs. George Rushforth,...

Thurnscoe Head Retiring – Mr. T. H. Bollans of the Hill School

January 1943
South Yorkshire Times January 16, 1943 Thurnscoe Head Retiring Mr. T. H. Bollans of the Hill School Mr. T. H. Bollans headmaster of The Hill Modern Boys'...

Soldier – Powell, Ernest – Splendid Christmas Gift

February 1944
South Yorkshire Times, February 5th 1944 Splendid Christmas Gift Driver Ernest Powell of “Bona Vista,” Thurnscoe Lane, Great Houghton, is attached to the Royal Engineers.  He...

Undue Risk – Timbering Precautions Neglected – Fatal Sequel

January 1933
South Yorkshire Times, January 27th, 1933 Undue Risk Timbering Precautions Neglected At Houghton Fatal Sequel "I saw him coming down the drift on a stretcher. He moaned ,and...

0bituary – Doctor Baxter

June 1944
South Yorkshire Times June 3, 1944 0bituary - Doctor Baxter Mr. Doctor Baxter (74), a well-known resident and esteemed chorister in the Parish Church choir for...

Editorial – Getting to Grips

17 June 1944
South Yorkshire Times June 17, 1944 Getting to Grips These last ten days have been the most heartening since Britain took up arms against the all-pervading...