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Soldier – Biggs, Fred – Service Snap
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 17 February 1940
Service Snaps
Pte. Fred Biggs, aged 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Biggs, 39, Cross...
Swinton Evening School Display Of First Aid
South Yorkshire Times, April 7th, 1939.
Swinton Evening school students gave a display of first aid work at their annual exhibition on Friday.
Language at Swinton
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 25 August 1870
Samuel Webster of Swinton was summoned by a married woman named Anne Smith, designer at Swinton Bridge...
The Burial of the Dead.
Sheffield Independent - Monday 23 November 1874
The Burial of the Dead.
Of the twenty-three men who lost their lives on Friday, more than half that...
The Shocking Explosion at the Warren Vale Colliery.
Sheffield Independent - Monday 23 November 1874
The Shocking Explosion at the Warren Vale Colliery.
Exploration of the Workings.
The excitement caused in the South...
A Curious Transaction.
Sheffield Independent - Tuesday 30 January 1877
A Curious Transaction.
John Stokes, of Swinton, was ctarged by James Beevors, glass-blower, with stealing a gun at...
Annual School Sing
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 22 May 1877
Annual School Sing
The annual gathering of the various schools connected with the Mexborough and District Sunday School...
Court Cases
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 19 May 1877
Trial Of Prisoner.
Pleaded Guilty.
Francis Baynes (on bail), labourer, pleaded guilty to having unlawfully assaulted Mary Priest,...
The South Yorkshire Miners’ Association
Sheffield Independent – Saturday 09 June 1877
The South Yorkshire Miners’ Association
The third of a series of open-air demonstrations which are being held by the...
State of Coal Industry
Birmingham Daily Post – Saturday 23 March 1878
Barnsley, Friday.
The whole district is in a very unsettled state, whilst trade was scarcely ever more depressed....