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Stories Of The Flood – Week-End Despatches From All Areas
Mexborough and Swinton Times, May 27th, 1932
Stories Of The Flood
Week-End Despatches From All Areas
Mexborough
On three sides Mexborough was surrounded by floods; the waters of...
Prodigal Son – May Get Borstal
Mexborough and Swinton Times, May 13th, 1932
Prodigal Son
May Get Borstal
At Barnsley on Wednesday Fred Harrison, unemployed, admitted stealing a 10s. note, the property of...
Dearne Valley Reorganisation – 1. Wombwell Scheme (Opposition)
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 03 June 1932
The Opposition
Things Darfield Doesn't Want.
Mr. N. Goodyear, Clerk to the Darfield U.D.C., " said they entirely...
Dearne Valley Reorganisation – 2. The Darfield Scheme
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 03 June 1932
Darfield's Scheme
Parishes Willing If - "A Compact Area"
Scheme No. Two, put forward by the Darfield U.D.C.,...
Dearne Valley Reorganisation – 1. Wombwell Scheme
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 03 June 1932
Bold "Greater Wombwell" Scheme
Affinities and Aversions
County Conference on Dearne Valley Reorganisation
Four more schemes of...
Marconigrams – June 24th, 1932
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 24 June 1932
Marconigrams.
Yesterday was the Prince of Wales' thirty-eighth birthday.
The nightingale has been heard on several occasions...
Colliery Official and Public Worker
Mexborough and Swinton Times, July 15th, 1932
Colliery Official and Public Worker
Mr. John Briggs, a well-known figure in Little Houghton, died after a brief illness...
Four Generations
Mexborough and Swinton Times, July 29th,1932
Four Generations
Mrs. Hazell, aged 82 of Wadsley Bridge, a native of Thurnscoe, with her daughter, Mrs. A. Stansfield (59),...
Miner’s Family of Nineteen Perfectly Happy
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 22 July 1932
A Broomhill Family of Nineteen Perfectly Happy
See these two fine little chaps! They belong to a...
Darfield & Wombwell Main Dismissals – Another 1300 Men Out
Mexborough and Swinton Times, July 29th, 1932
Another 1300 Men Out
Darfield & Wombwell Main Dismissals
This has been a depressing week for Wombwell. In two consecutive...