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Successful Swinton Garden Fete – Prize Winning Babies
South Yorkshire Times, July 29th, 1944
Successful Swinton Garden Fete
Mrs F. R. Moberly with some of the prize-winning babies and their mothers at the Manvers...
Successful Swinton Garden Fete – Ventriloquist
South Yorkshire Times, July 29th, 1944
Successful Swinton Garden Fete
Children listening to a ventriloquist at the Manvers Main garden party on Saturday.
Yorkshire Council – Hickleton’s Proud Place
South Yorkshire Times, July 29th, 1944
Hickleton’s Proud Place
Hickleton Main proudly lead the Yorkshire Council with an unbroken record of victorles and a 100 per...
Editorial – When Rogues Fall Out
South Yorkshire Times, July 29th, 1944
When Rogues Fall Out
Like a good defensive fighter the Nazis have covered up quickly after the staggering blow which...
Marconigrams – July 29th, 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 29th, 1944
Marconigrams
The Salute the Soldier campaign, now in its last week, has so far realised £506,187,519. The figure is equal...
Rotherham 129 for 5 Swinton 76 for 5 – Swinton’s Moderate Score.
South Yorkshire Times, July 8 1944
Yorkshire Council
Hickleton Too Sound For Denaby.
Denaby & Cadeby 57 Hickleton 58 for 6
Hickleton defeated Denaby by four wickets before...
South Yorkshire Welcomes London Evacuees
South Yorkshire Times, July 15th 1944
Billeting Arrangements Work Well
South Yorkshire Welcomes London Evacuees
Evacuees, mothers with small children and school children, have this week been...
Wedding – Skelton & Ranger
South Yorkshire Times, July 22nd, 1944
Wedding Skelton & Ranger
Miss Barbara Skelton, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Skelton, 45, Bridge Street, Swinton,...
Editorial – Careless Talk
South Yorkshire Times, July 22nd, 1944
Careless Talk
Careless talk, which has been the theme for many an official sermon, is not the monopoly of the...
Marconigrams – July 22nd, 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 22nd 1944
Marconigrams
Brampton Hospital Gala on Saturday realised £230 for the Mexborough Montagu and Barnsley Beckett Hospitals.
A speaker on “Re-organisation of...
Wedding – Lowe & Hellewell
South Yorkshire Times, July 15th 1944
The wedding was solemnised at St. Margaret’s Church, Swinton, of Miss Audrey Lowe, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs....
Marconigrams – July 15th, 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 15th, 1944
Marconigrams
The directors of the Midland Bank Limited announce an Interim Dividend for the half year ended June 30th last...
Editorial – Germany at Bay
South Yorkshire Times, July 15th, 1944
Germany at Bay
Caen, the Norman town in the streets of which British airborne troops were fighting on the night...
Marconigrams – July 09th 1944
South Yorkshire Timers, July 9th, 1944
Marconigrams
Mr. Frederick Allen, the well-known BBC newsreader and announcer has promised to attend the Montagu Hospital “Dig for Victory”...
Soldier – Oliver, Herbert – Wounded In Normandy
South Yorkshire Times, July 8th, 1944
Wounded In Normandy
Sergeant Herbert Oliver, (32), R.A. has been wounded by shrapnel in the right shoulder and left side...
World Famous Cricketers at Mexborough – Advert
South Yorkshire Times June 17, 1944
World Famous Cricketers at Mexborough
Entire Proceeds for Montagu Hospital
Charity Cricket Match – Herbert Sutcliffe leads the Team
South Yorkshire Times June 24, 1944
Herbert Sutcliffe (fourth from right), leading out Earl Fitzwilliam's XI to Field
Charity Cricket Match – Wonderful Feast Monday – Over £1000 Realised
South Yorkshire Times Saturday, June 24, 1944
Charity Cricket Match at Mexborough
A Wonderful Feast Monday
Over £1000 Realised
Mr P Beaumont's XI 145
L Townsend 76, W Barber...
Denaby & Cadeby 139 Swinton 140 for 9 – Swinton Snatch Victory
South Yorkshire Times, July 1st, 1944
Yorkshire Council
Sheffield United 100 Mexborough 133
Mexborough Win at Bramall Lane
Mexborough did well to win at Bramall Lane, where they...
Wedding – Hince & Smedley
South Yorkshire Times, July 1st, 1944
A peal was rung on Swinton St. Margaret’s Church tubular bells while members and candidates of St. Michael’s Church...
Editorial – Shadow of Defeat
South Yorkshire Times, July 1st 1944
Shadow of Defeat
With the fall of Cherbourg things really begin to look bad for the Germans. Having got our...
Wedding – Oxer & Higgins
South Yorkshire Times, July 1st, 1944
Wedding – Oxer & Higgins
Miss Kathleen Mary Oxer, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Oxer, 10, Prince Seet,...
Backing up Second Front – Record Output at Kilnhurst Works
South Yorkshire Timmes, July 1st 1944
Members Of The First Unit Of Women Forge Workers At The Kilnhurst Works Of Baker And Bessemer Ltd.
Three years...
Editorial – Frozen War
South Yorkshire Times, January 6th 1940
Frozen War
Our war is still frozen, and shows little sign at present of thawing. Here do we see...