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Lighted Streets

January 1928
Mexborough & Swinton Times, January 20, 1928 Lighted Streets The main road in Swinton is the least lighted street in the town. Excepting at one or two...

Swinton Club Entered – Looking for Prison.

January 1928
Mexborough & Swinton Times, January 6, 1928 Swinton Club Entered. Looking for Prison. Ernest Metcalfe (35). a miner, of Swinton, was bound over in the sum of...

Swinton Woman’s Death – Found Hanging in Outhouse.

January 1928
Mexborough & Swinton Times, January 13, 1928 Swinton Woman's Death. Found Hanging in Outhouse. Mr. Kenyon Parker held an inquest in the Swinton Library on Monday on...

Stolen Turnips – Swinton Man Fined.

January 1928
Mexborough & Swinton Times, January 20, 1928 Stolen Turnips. Swinton Man Fined. For having stolen seven turnips, valued 1 shilling, from a field belonging to Thomas Sharpley,...

Deadly Don – Schoolboy Snatched away by River

February 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 17, 1928 Deadly Don Mexborough Schoolboy Snatched away by River The Rotherham West Riding Constabulary are searching for the body of Walter...

The Beloved Vagabond

February 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 24, 1928 The Beloved Vagabond Mrs L Hill 82, Charles Street, Swinton has a tame jackdaw which is as clever a...

Boat Building Looking Up

February 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 24, 1928 Boat Building Looking Up The local industry of canal boat building, once a thriving contributor to the prosperity of...

‘Shadows of Strife.”

February 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 24, 1928 'Shadows of Strife." Mr John Davison, of Piccadilly, whose strike play “ Shadows of Strife," is to be produced...

The Swinton Players – Performance of Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion.”

February 1928
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Friday 17 February 1928 The Swinton Players. Performance of Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion.” In choosing “Pygmalion” for their third production of season,...

Bus Fire –  Thrill for Passengers

March 1928
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 08 March 1928 Bus Fire.  Thrill for Passengers at Mexborough. Last evening there was some excitement Swinton Road. Mexborough, when a...