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Review of the Year – July to December
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,...