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The Hull Coal Trade – Returns for 1892
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...