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Coroner Though Bus Should Have Missed Swinton Child

February 1949
South Yorkshire Times, February 19th, 1949 Coroner Though Bus Should Have Missed Swinton Child How a two year old child walked 19 feet across a road...

Further Success

March 1949
Mexborough & Swinton Times – March 26, 1949 Further Success Twenty-one-year-old Jack Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Smith, of 31a, Bridge Street, Swinton, on...

Wedding – Dobson & Wyatt

March 1949
South Yorkshire Times March 12, 1949 Mrs Hilda Dobson, 22 A Talbot Rd, Swinton and Mr Kenneth Wyatt, “Lynne – Dean”, Carhampton, Minehead, Somerset at St Margaret’s...

Nominations for April Elections – Many Unopposed Returns

March 1949
Mexborough & Swinton Times – March 26, 1949 Nominations for April Elections Many Unopposed Returns New Councillors at Dearne and Darfield Labour’s firm hold on this part of...

Cinema – Roxy – I Remember Mama (video)

March 1949
Mexborough & Swinton Times – March 26, 1949 From YouTube:

Roman Terrace 1930/31: Schools Reminiscence

March 1949
Mexborough & Swinton Times – March 26, 1949 Roman Terrace 1930/31: Schools Reminiscence Reader interest in schoolboy football, reflected in letters in recent issues, has brought...

All-Swinton Billiard Finalists

March 1949
South Yorkshire Times March 12, 1949   "Con's" impressions of Friday's all-Swinton finalists in the individual billiards championship of the South Yorkshire Branch of the Club...

Editorial – Sheffield Smitten

26 March 1949
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 21 December 1940 Sheffield Smitten Sheffield has now experienced the full fury of a Nazi mass raid and has...

Wedding – Mellors & Mitchell

April 1949
South Yorkshire Times, April 9, 1949 Miss Edna Mellors, 7 Woodlands Crescent, Swinton and Mr Jack Mitchell, 46, Riley Road, Sandygate, Wath at Swinton Parish Church

Cinema – Roxy – Sleeping Car to Trieste (video)

April 1949
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