January

Contents:
Ladies’ Beetle Drive Club
Weddings:
– Woods & Taylor
– Whaley & Sanderson
– Elliott & Lunt
District Industrial Leaders Confident
A Famous Autograph (video)

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February

Contents:
Children’s Fancy Dress Party
Wards Staff Dinner and Social
Cinema – Roxy – Indiscreet (video)
A Famous Autograph (video)
Ronnie Caroll Helps Darby and Joan
SY Musical Comedy Society Awards
Swinton W.V.S. Bring and Buy Sale
Queen Street Pancake Day:
Pancakes at Queen Street
Scrambling for Pancakes
After the Pancake Scramble
Swinton Secondary School Canteen
Swinton Student helps with Dinners

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March



Contents:

Swinton Man’s 33 Years’ Service
Two and Half Years Old Twins
Weddings:
– Eyre & Regan
– Hobson & Green
– Waddington & Skirrow
Cinema – Roxy –Perri (video)
Swinton St. Margaret’s Youth Club
Queen’s Sports Club Annual Dinner
“For Good Honest Triers
– Schoolboy Footballers ! ”
First Winner for Tony Potts

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April

Contents:
Evening School Display Of First Aid
Daffodil tea
LVA Dinner Dance
Weddings:
– Burns & Webb
– Shirtcliffe & Chapel
– Beardsley & Duncan
– Lundry & Wray
– O’connor & Holmes
– Ramsey & Lunn
– Wath & Firman
Toad of toad Hill
South Yorkshire Club Plans for Season
Cup final
Swinton Beaten In Derby Final – Challenge Cup to Kilnhurst

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May

Contents:
Local Accident Statistics
A May Celebration
On Her 80th Birthday
First Woman Chairman Of The Council
Election Candidates
Cinema – Roxy – The Captain’s Table
Happy Faces
Whitsuntide procession – Free Lift.
School Students at Rock House
Bridge Infants School May Queen
Whitsuntide procession
Highest Score in 10 years of Cricket
Tottys Cup

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June

Contents:
The Printing Dispute
Labour Party Presentation
Milton Street Wesleyan Reform Church
St. Michael’s Church Garden Party
Mexborough & Swinton Nursing Cadets
Junior School Old Folk’s Treat
Bridge Junior School Staff
– “Maybe Wedding”
Swinton School “Shooting Stars”
Ladies Darts League Final

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July

Printing Strike

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August

Contents:
Another “Title” for a Swintonian
Sisters Are Nurses
Weddings:
– Duckworh & Fry – Horseshoe for Bride
– Dutchman & Logereau – In Paris
– Josephs & Brooks
– Oxley & Shirley
– Potter & Shaw
– Robinson & Brook
– Wilde & Senior
Barnburgh Fatality
– Difficult to Understand
Cinema – Roxy – The 39 Steps
Allotment Association’s Show
Miners Welfare Club Opens
Road Safety Tests
Swinton Bridge School Annual Sports
Swinton Milton School Open day
Lawn Tennis Association Finals

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September

Contents:
Weddings:

– Charity & Duncan
– Jones & Simpson
– Pinkerton & France
Concert for R.S.P.C.A.
Cinema – Roxy
– Hound of the Baskervilles (video)

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October

Contents:
Golden Wedding – Mr & Mrs Hydes
“Wonderful” Parade
– Swintonian Gets Commission
Wedding – Dungworth & Unwin
Fashion Parade in Swinton Parish Hall
Cinema – Roxy – Look Back in Anger (video)
Parish Church Harvest Festival
Bowbroom W.M.C. Angling team
Bowbroom W.M.C. New Premises
Swinton W.M.C. Presentation
Fitzwilliam School Harvest Festival

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November

Contents:
Saved By Girder
– Fall Checked 60 feet Above
Empress Ballroom, “Birthday Queen”
Photographer to Wed Teacher
Weddings:
– Meggitt & Firth
– McErlane & Bell
Groundnuts at Waddingtons
Cinema – Roxy – Parisienne (video)
St Michael’s Church Autumn Bazaar
Swinton Congregational Church
Canal Tavern Landlord’s Retirement
Mexborough G.S. Centre-Half
– Chosen for Yorkshire

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December

Contents:
Football Pools Winner
Weddings:
– License & Vickerage
– Walton & Barton
Boy Bishop at St. Margaret’s Church
Cinema – Roxy – Shaggy Dog
Ladies’ Darts League Individual Trophy
Fitzwilliam Infants’ School Nativity

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