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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,...

Presentation for Services

February 1934
South Yorkshire Times, February 23rd, 1934 Presentation for Services As a token of esteem and appreciation of services rendered Mr. Edmund Senior, of Osmaston House, Station...

New County Districts West Riding Proposals Completed

February 1934
South Yorkshire Times, February 2nd, 1934 New County Districts West Riding Proposals Completed Important Revisions Reorganisation Of Doncaster, Hemsworth, Barnsley and Penistone Rural Districts Fewer and Bigger Urban Authorities Local...