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Editorial – A Well-Kept Watch
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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...