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On Strike One Week – Hit Target Next

November 1951
South Yorkshire Times, November 24th, 1951 On Strike One Week - Hit Target Next Last week’s output from 13 pits in the No 3 Area of...

Third Time in Five Weeks – Coal Output

November 1951
South Yorkshire Times, November 3rd, 1951 Third Time in Five Weeks Wentworth drift mine last week established a new record output for the third time in...

Election Notebook – Flag For Tory Victory Was Sabotaged

November 1951
South Yorkshire Times, November 3rd, 1951 Election Notebook Wombwell Flag For Tory Victory Was Sabotaged In celebration of the return of a Conservative government a Union Jack...

Election Results in Don & Dearne Valleys

November 1951
South Yorkshire Times, November 3rd, 1951 Mr. W. Paling (Dearne Valley) Dearne Valley *W Paling Lab.):  39,782 J. Sizer (Con.): 10,197 Majority:              29.685 No change 1950 Election: Lab. Majority 30,055 There was...

No Change but Majorities Down

November 1951
South Yorkshire Times and Express, November 3rd, 1951 No Change but Majorities Down Most interesting statistical detail revealed by South Yorkshire’s General Election results declared on...

Cinema – Roxy – Halls of Montezuma (video)

November 1951
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Sale of Work at St Michael’s

November 1951
South Yorkshire Times, November 17th, 1951 Smiles were in evidence as well as many good bargains at the sale of work at St. Michael’s Schoolroom,...

Rotary Club presentation to Swinton Urban Council

November 1951
South Yorkshire Times, November 17th, 1951 Rotarian T. R. Squires, President of Mexborough and District Rotary Club, planting on Tuesday in the verge adjoining the...

“Rowms River”

November 1951
South Yorkshire Times, November 10th, 1951 Guess Where? …. No prizes are offered for pin-pointing this scene, taken on Monday as the periodic “Rowms River”...

Marconigrams – 03rd November 1951

November 1951
South Yorkshire Times November 3rd, 1951 Marconigrams The Pennine Way  - which will enable travellers to go from Derbyshire to the Scottish border on foot or...