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Editorial – A Well-Kept Watch

2 December 1944
South Yorkshire Times, 2 December 1944 A Well-Kept Watch On Sunday the Home Guard formally “stands down.” In the critical days which followed the Dunkirk evacuation,...

The Birth of a Coalfield – Looking Back 150 years

January 1947
South Yorkshire Times January 4, 1947 Looking Back 150 years South Yorkshire Pioneer's Legacy In South Yorkshire a chapter of its industrial history 150 years long came...

Scouts in Paris

May 1947
South Yorkshire Times May 24, 1947 Here are the 10 First Class Scouts of Mexborough Local Association, who will attend the jamboree to be held...

Strike Costs 60,000 Tons of Coal Daily – 42 Pits & 50,000 Men...

September 1947
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 04 September 1947 Strike Now Costs 60,000 Tons of Coal Daily 42 Pits and 50,000 Men Involved Government May...

A Parish Hall Preview

October 1947
Mexborough and Swinton Times October 18, 1947 A Parish Hall Preview Colin Leech (Great Houghton), who in the evening won the junior solo challenge class at...

Conisbrough School Headship

November 1947
South Yorkshire Times November 15, 1947 Conisbrough School Headship " Short-listed "  at County Hall, Wakefield, on Friday for the headship of Conisbrough Morley Place Infants' School,...

Thurnscoe and Houghton Girls in Crash

June 1948
South Yorkshire Times June 19 1948 Thurnscoe and Houghton Girls in Crash Driver's Collapse at Wheel Passengers Try to Control Runaway Bus In the early hours of...

Will be On the Air

August 1948
South Yorkshire Times August 21, 1948 Will Be On The Air A sixteen-year-old Thurnscoe girl Miss Betty G. Brooke, of 15: Hanover Street, Thurnscoe East, and...

Attempted Murder Charge – Miner Remanded – Alleged Knife Attack On Thurnscoe Girl

September 1948
South Yorkshire Times September 25, 1948 Attempted Murder Charge Miner Remanded Alleged Knife Attack On Thurnscoe Girl At Barnsley W.B. Magistrates court on Friday, Supt. H. Dunn asked...