Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 19 July 1941

Mr. M L. G. Hawkins (Leicester) and Miss K Twigg (Swinton).

Miss Kathleen Twigg, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Twigg. of Griffin Road, Swinton, and Mr. Leslie George Hawkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Hawkins, of Leicester, were married on Saturday at Swinton Parish Church.

Given away by her brother, the bride wore a gown of dusty pink crepe suede with a floral headdress. She carried cream roses. Attending her were Miss Phyllis Twigg and Miss Vera Nettleton in n****r brown dresses trimmed with dusty pink with hat to tone, and carrying pink carnations.

Miss Jean Bort, presented the bride with a silver horseshoe on leaving church. The bridegroom’s gifts to the bridesmaids were curios in bog oak.

The best man was Mr. G. Shipley, and the groomsman Mr. Alfred Midgly.

The bride travelled to Scotland, where is honeymoon is being spent, in a Harris tweed costume. The bride’s gift to the bridegroom was a travelling case and the bride received a fur coat from the bridegroom.