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Editorial – Loss Upon Loss!

7 March 1942
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 07 March 1942 Loss Upon Loss! Java and Lower Burma have vanished for a time beneath the Japanese tidal wave....

Editorial – Time To Strip

7 March 1942
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 07 March 1942 Time To Strip The Allies continue to wage unequal war in the Pacific. The scene changes to Java...

Editorial – The Next Round

21 March 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 21 March 1942 The Next Round Mr. Roosevelt has answered Mr. Curtin's appeal with an expeditionary force for Australia under...

Editorial – Australia

28 March 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 28 March 1942 Australia The queer squabble over the appointment of Mr. Casey to Cairo is symptomatic of the strain...

Editorial – Malta

28 March 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 28 March 1942 Malta Heroic Malta is gain passing through a period of storm. This devoted outpost is braving and...

Wedding – Jackson & Knill

April 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 11 April 1942 Swinton's Coronation Queen, Miss Edith Jackson, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jackson, Rowms Lane,...

Wedding – Stanworth & Marks

April 1942
South Yorkshire Times, April 25, 1942 Mr. O. Marks (Swinton) and Miss A. Stanworth (Swinton) Miss Amy Stanworth, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanworth,...

Runaway Tub – Mineworker Fatally Injured

April 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 04 April 1942 Runaway Tub Denaby Mineworker Fatally Injured "It seems that the tub which ran away could not have been...

Councillor – W. Popplewell

April 1942
Mexborough and Swinton Times, April 22nd, 1932 Mr. W. Popplewell was born at Swinton 54 years ago. He commenced work at the age of 13 for...

Cinema – Roxy – Blossoms in the Dust (video)

April 1942
South Yorkshire Times, April 25, 1942 From YouTube: