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Montagu Hospital – Week’s Casualty List – 6th January 1939

January 1939
Montagu Hospital - Week’s Casualty List South Yorkshire Times, 6th January 1939 Cases Admitted Mexborough Albert Booth (5 months), of 3 Highfield Cottages, Mexborough, fractured humerus, at home. Treated...

River Don Overflowed its Banks – Hedgerows Covered

January 1939
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 16 January 1939 River Don Overflowed its Banks The River Don overflowed its banks at Kilnhurst Wash yesterday, with the result...

Snow, Ice, Fog and Floods in South Yorkshire

January 1939
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 03 January 1939 Winter Again Cuts Off Northern Villages Flooding Threat in Sheffield Area Blizzards swept the North of England...

Editorial – “I Would” and “I Dare Not”

4 January 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 04 November 1939 "I Would" and "I Dare Not" Still, like the cat i' the adage would" waits upon...

Accident at Woodman

February 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 24th 1939 Sweeping up broken glass after a lorry overturned near the Woodman cross-roads at Swinton last Thursday

Wedding – Young & Watts

February 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 24, 1939 Miss Hephzibah Young, 253, Queen St, Swinton and Mr Hartley Stevenson Watts,  28 Lincoln Rd, Blackpool at Swinton Parish...

Cinema – Roxy – No Limits (video)

February 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 24, 1939 From YouTube:

A. R. P. Demonstration at Swinton

February 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 10, 1939 Big Crowd See A.R.P. Organisation in Action Many Women Watchers More than 1,000 Swinton people, including a large percentage of...

A.R.P. Demonstration – Signs of Things to Come ?

February 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 10, 1939 Signs of Things to Come ? There is a sinister atmosphere about the picture (below) of the extinguishing of...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – 17th February 1939

February 1939
Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List – Friday 17th February 1939 Cases Admitted MONDAY: Horace Pond (18), 21 Birdwell Road, Kilnhurst — lacerations of face and concussion, at...