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Editorial – Election in the Air
South Yorkshire Times, November 4th 1944
Election in the Air
Since it seems that sooner or later we must resign ourselves to a resumption of the...
Editorial – Twice Taught Lesson
South Yorkshire Times 18 November 1944
Twice Taught Lesson
Royal Air Force Lancasters intervened dramatically in the inconclusive Battleships versus Bombs debate this week. The sinking...
Editorial – Hard Pounding
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944
Hard Pounding
General Eisenhower, like Wellington at Waterloo, is seeing who can pound longer. It is a test of many...
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,...
Editorial – Greece in Travail
South Yorkshire Times, 16 December 1944
Greece in Travail
There is a significant obduracy about ‘the manner in which the Greek ‘“rebels” (as General Scobie's...
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...