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Editorial – Alas, Poor Ghost!
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 16 December 1939
Alas, Poor Ghost!
The intervention of the League of Nations in the Russo-Finnish dispute came as...
Editorial – Recipe for a Happy Christmas
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 23 December 1939
Recipe for a Happy Christmas
Twenty-two years have rolled by and again we face a war...
Editorial – This Year of Fate
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 30 December 1939
This Year of Fate
And so draws to its close this year of fate, 1939, in...
Obituary – Mr. Theophilus Gough
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 27, 1940
Obituary - Mr. Theophilus Gough
A well-known Swintonian, noted for his activities in connection with Mexborough Montagu Hospital and...
Wedding – Beech & Sprunt
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 6, 1940
Miss Joan Mary Beech, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Beech, "Linwood”, Station Street, Swinton, was...
Wedding – Norton & Massey
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 6, 1940
The marriage of Miss Lily Norton. younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Norton, of 41, Queen...
Both To Blame – Cars Collide In Black-Out Incident
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 20, 1940
Both To Blame
Cars Collide In Black-Out Incident Near Mexborough
A Swinton contractor and a soldier who were driving cars...
Nazi Air Force’s Busy Day – Planes Over British Coast
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 13 January 1940
Nazi Air Force's Busy Day
Planes Over British Coast
Soon Driven Off : No Bombs Dropped
Italian Volunteers...
Sailor – Viccars, Stanley – A Swinton Seaman
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 06 January 1940
A Swinton Seaman
A.B. Seaman Stanley Viccars, aged 22, a seaman gunner, only son of Mr. and...