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Marconigrams – November 10th, 1933

November 1933
South Yorkshire Times, November 10th, 1933 Marconigrams The next Wath Rural Deanery Choirs Festival will be held in 1935. Get ready to join our great knitting contest....

Mr. T. L. Curtis

January 1934
South Yorkshire Times, January 26th 1934 Mr. T. L. Curtis The death occurred with tragic suddenness on Monday morning of Mr. Thomas L. Curtis at his...

Quaint Clock – Wath Family Heirloom – Fine Specimen

January 1934
South Yorkshire Times, January 26th, 1934 Quaint Clock Wath Family Heirloom Fine Specimen This looks like a candlestick, but it is not.  Actually, it is a clock.  If...

Work-Sharing – Spreading In Local Collieries

January 1934
South Yorkshire Times, January 5th, 1934 Work-Sharing Spreading In Local Collieries Colliery owners and miners in this district favour the sharing out of work. Schemes inaugurated within...

Rural Crafts – Hedge-Laying & Trimming – A Decaying Art

January 1934
South Yorkshire Times, January 26th, 1934 Rural Crafts Hedge-Laying & Trimming A Decaying Art Nothing is more agreeable in the eye of a countryman than a well-trimmed hedge,...

Cinema – The Picture House – When Ladies Meet

January 1934
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Marconigrams – January 05th, 1934

January 1934
South Yorkshire Times, January 5th 1934 Marconigrams The “Royal Scot” will be on exhibition in Sheffield on January 19th. “Influenza is abroad” says a writer. Let us...

Marconigrams – January 19th, 1934

January 1934
South Yorkshire Times, January 19th, 1934 Marconigrams A Chamber of Trade has been formed at Goldthorpe. The Houghton Main Colliery Company have re-opened their Parkgate seam, closed...

Boat Building Family – A Swinton Group

February 1934
South Yorkshire Times, February 2nd, 1934 Boat Building Family A Swinton Group Here is a photograph of a group representing four generations of a Swinton family. Mr. W....

Wedding – Moore & Hibbert

February 1934
South Yorkshire Times, February 16th, 1934  Hibbert – Moore  At Swinton Parish Church on Saturday Miss Ethel Moore eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Moore,...