Newly added to the website
Middlecliffe Case at Assizes
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 12 December 1959
Co-Op. Director First Defence Witness at Leeds Assizes
Barnsley Case Still Incomplete After Hearing Lasting Four Days...
Nazi Air Force’s Busy Day – Planes Over British Coast
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 13 January 1940
Nazi Air Force's Busy Day
Planes Over British Coast
Soon Driven Off : No Bombs Dropped
Italian Volunteers...
Soldier – Chadwick, Harry – Darfield Man Entertains.
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 13 January 1940
Darfield Man Entertains.
Are the troops downhearted?—No! At least not when Private Harry Chadwick, of Darfield, is...
Editorial – Slippery Places
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 11 January 1941
Slippery Places
Then understood I the end of these men; namely, how Thou dost set them...
Editorial – Roosevelt’s Resolve (video – Arsenal of Democracy)
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 04 January 1941
Roosevelt's Resolve
Mr. Roosevelt has now made' it clear "beyond a per-adventure," as his illustrious predecessor of...
Last Year’s Tale of Tragedy – A Diary of Inquests.
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 03 January 1930
Last Year's Tale of Tragedy.
A Diary of Inquests.
January
7—Suicide of Consiboro’ saddler, Philip Elmhurst, by...
Diary of Local History in 1929 – Quarter 4 – October to December
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 03 January 1930
Local History in 1929.
A Diary of Outstanding Events - the Year Reviewed.
Diary of the Year.
October.
1—Public...
Diary of Local History in 1929 – Quarter 3 – July to September
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 03 January 1930
Local History in 1929.
A Diary of Outstanding Events – the Year Reviewed.
Diary of the Yar.
July
6- West...
Diary of Local History in 1929 – Quarter 2 – April to June
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 03 January 1930
Local History in 1929.
A Diary of Outstanding Events - the Year Reviewed.
Diary of the Year....
Diary of Local History in 1929 – Quarter 1 – January to March
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 03 January 1930
Local History in 1929.
A Diary of Outstanding Events - the Year Reviewed.
Gains and Losses.
Diary...
Houghton Main Fatal Accident.
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 13 January 1940
Houghton Main Fatal Accident.
CharIie Ward (36), married, a surface worker, of 8, College Terrace, Darfield, slipped...
Soldiers – Bladen C. & Cooke, Charles -Two Local Reservists
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 06 January 1940
Two Local Reservists
A reservist who has seen three of six three years' service in India, C....
Caught Red-Handed Gun-Stealing at Darfield
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 06 January 1940
Caught Red-Handed
Gun-Stealing at Darfield
For stealing a shot gun and a Winchester rifle three haulage...
Editorial – Adolf Strafe England
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 28 October 1939
Adolf Strafe England
The war still hangs fire but the German Foreign Minister came in front...
Editorial – The Tempo Quickens
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 21 October 1939
The Tempo Quickens
The tempo of the war quickens by land, sea, and air. The Germans in...
Editorial – The Monomaniac
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 14 October 1939
The Monomaniac
Hitler has got his answer. The worst he can do is more tolerable than...
Editorial – Pistol Point Peace
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 07 October 1939
Pistol Point Peace
These are early days to be talking of war aims although we are...
Editorial – Mr Churchill’s Broadcast to the Italian People (video)
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 28 December 1940
Mr Churchill's Broadcast to the Italian People
Mr Churchill's broadcast to the Italian people was a magnificent...
Round your Way – The Houghtons
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 14 May 1949
Round your Way – the Houghtons
Where the Rotherham road dips and rises out of Darfield you will...
Editorial – Sheffield Smitten
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 21 December 1940
Sheffield Smitten
Sheffield has now experienced the full fury of a Nazi mass raid and has borne...
Editorial – Past Pardon
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 14 December 1940
Past Pardon
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_Speech_to_the_Workers_of_Berlin_(10_December_1940)
When Hitler spoke to German factory workers on Tuesday he took care to choose a...
Editorial – The Science of War
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 07 December 1940
The Science of War
The Germans have made an angry protest against the publication in Switzerland...
New Playground: A Happy Day for Houghton
South YorkshireTimes - Saturday 09 May 1959
New Playground: A Happy Day for Houghton
Within seconds of Great Houghton's first children's playing field being declared...
Editorial – Queens Speech and Churchill’s Review (videos)
Mexborough and Swinton Times November 18, 1939
The Gentle Queen
The Queen's broadcast to the women of the Empire was one of the war's loveliest interludes....
Clever Young Pianist
Mexborough and Swinton Times December 30, 1939
Clever Young Pianist
Sonia Ann Lukins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Fletcher, of 127, Pleasant Avenue Great...