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Cinema – Roxy – Tomorrow We Live

December 1943
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Marconigrams – May 05th 1933

May 1933
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 05 May 1933  Marconigrams A fourteenth-century arrow-head has been unearthed in Conisborough garden. There is no one livning person who is...

Editorial – Looking for Trouble

20 November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 20th 1943 Looking For Trouble There is still a good deal that is not clear about the unrest in the Lebanon,...

Wedding – Bool & Myers

December 1943
South Yorkshire Times, December 18th 1943 Mr. Owen Myers (Swinton) and Miss. Peggy Bool (Mexborough).

Nursing Success

December 1943
South Yorkshire Times, December 4th 1943 Nursing Success Miss Marjorie Brooks (22), only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Brooks of Brookville, Rockingham Road, Swinton, has...

Soldier – Haigh, Cyril – Flying Instructor

December 1943
South Yorkshire Times, December 4th 1943 Flying Instructor Cyril Haigh, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Haigh, 35, Highfield Road, Swinton, is now serving in England...

Soldier – Cooke, Ernest – Reported Prisoner

December 1943
South Yorkshire Times, December 4th 1943 Reported Prisoner Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Cooke, of Lyndon Leigh, Church Street, Swinton, have received news from the Air...

Editorial – Common Cause

6 November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 6th 1943 Common Cause News from Moscow was scanty for the duration of the conference between Britain, the United States and...

Swinton’s Oldest Resident

December 1943
South Yorkshire Times, December 4th 1943 Swinton's Oldest Resident Here is a picture of Mrs. Grace Mary Abbott, (93), of 39, Thomas Street, Bowbroom, Swinton’s oldest...

Airman – Heald, Sydney – Airman Missing

December 1943
South Yorkshire Times, December 4th 1943 Airman Missing Mrs. Heald, of 24, Manor Road, Swinton, has received news that her husband, Flt.Sgt. Sydney Heald, is missing...

Soldier – Nicholls, Jack – Astride An Elephant

December 1943
South Yorkshire Times, December 4th 1943 Astride An Elephant The man astride the elephant is Pte. Jack Nicholls, of 45, Church Street, Swinton. The picture was...

Marconigrams – November 13th 1943

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 13th 1943 Marconigrams Mr. E. Bell, of Mexborough, has completed fifty years' service as a bell-ringer at Mexborough Parish Church. The Bishop...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – November 27th 1943

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 27th 1943 Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List Wednesday George Hunter, 30, Lindale Gardens, Goldthorpe, foreign body in eye; Betty Nelson (17½)...

Airman – Culpin B.W. – Swinton D.F.C.

December 1943
South Yorkshire Times, December 11th 1943 Swinton D.F.C. Flight-Lieut. B. W. Culpin Flight-Lieut, Bernard Walter Culpin, 21-year-old member of a “pathfinder” squadron of the R.A.F.,...

Soldier – Raynor, Leslie – D.C.M. Investiture 

December 1943
South Yorkshire Times, December 11th 1943 Investiture  At a recent investiture at Buckingham Palace L/Sergt. Leslie Raynor (25), of 15, Coronation Road, Swinton, received his award...

Marconigrams – November 20th 1943

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 20th 1943 Marconigrams “The Bible is the world’s best seller because it is the world's best book. It owes its vitality...

Soldier – White, Sam – Missing Soldier

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 27th 1943 Missing Soldier Here is a photograph of Pte. Sam White (25), only son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. White...

Editorial – Women at War

2 October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 2nd 1943 Women at War Mr. Bevin is credited as the initiator of the vast meeting of British women held in...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – October 02nd 1943

October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 2nd 1943 Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List The following casualties were treated at the Montagu Hospital during the week ending September 29th. Wednesday John...

Marconigrams – October 02nd 1943

October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 2nd 1943 Marconigrams Mr. W. J. Harrison, stationmaster at Ashton Park Parade, has been appointed stationmaster at Wath. St. John Ambulance Classes, which...

Editorial – The Coal Debate

16 October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 16th 1943 The Coal Debate A good many straws which have hovered in the wind for the last few weeks were...

Editorial – Europe’s Ordeal

9 October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 9th 1943 Europe’s Ordeal The sack of Naples by the retreating Germans is a horrid foretaste of what is in store...

Editorial – Greece in Travail

16 December 1944
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...

Marconigrams – July 29th, 1932

July 1932
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 29 July 1932 Marconigrams Work will commence next week on a new Labour Exchange to be erected in Mexborough. A second...

Soldiers & Sailor – Sgt. D. Cope – C.P.O. J. T Howlett – F....

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 13th 1943 Sgt. D. Cope – C.P.O. J. T Howlett – F. Howlett Mrs. Grocott, of Church Street, Cudworth, sends us...