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Wedding – Wardle & Spencer

August 1959
South Yorkshire Times, August 8, 1959 Miss Ollie Wardle of Wombwell and Mr Trevor Spencer of Middlecliffe at Wombwell Parish Church on July 11

Wedding – Dolby & Bushby

September 1959
South Yorkshire Times September 19, 1959 Miss Anne Dolby (Thurnscoe) and Mr John Robert Bushby (Great Houghton) at St Helens Church Thurnscoe

The “Boy With the Lethal Fists”

31 October 1959
South Yorkshire Times, October 31, 1959 Billy Thompson, Now 34, Recalls  When he Was the "Boy With the Lethal Fists” Crowds of excited fellow townspeople lined the...

Wedding – Haddock & Eastwood

November 1959
South Yorkshire Times November 28, 1959 Mr Harry Eastwood (Wombwell) & Miss Jean Haddock (Great Houghton), who were married at Wombwell Parish Church on Saturday

Wedding – Harris & Bailey

November 1959
South Yorkshire Times November 14, 1959 Miss Josephine Harris, of Great Houghton and Mr R.W. Bailey of Goldthorpe, after their marriage at Thurnscoe St Helens Church...

Wedding –Turner & Birch

November 1959
South Yorkshire Times November 7, 1959 Mr. Clifford F. Birch of 67, Windsor Crescent, Middlecliffe, Little Houghton and Miss E. Turner, of 41, Straight Lane, Goldthorpe, who...

Wedding – Wilkinson & Thurnscoe

December 1959
South Yorkshire Times December 12, 1959 Mr Peter Taylor (Thurnscoe) and Miss Mary Wilkinson (Great Houghton), who were married at St Helens Church Thurnscoe on Saturday

Dearne Valley Officials’ Christmas party

December 1959
South Yorkshire Times December 19, 1959 A shot at Dearne Valley Colliery officials' Christmas party in the Thurnscoe Hotel on Saturday.

Houghton Main Colliery Veterans

December 1959
South Yorkshire Times December 26, 1959 Houghton Main Colliery veterans at tea at Snape Hill Council schools, Darfield on Saturday

Middlecliffe Case at Assizes

December 1959
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 12 December 1959 Co-Op. Director First Defence Witness at Leeds Assizes Barnsley Case Still Incomplete After Hearing Lasting Four Days...