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Editorial – Getting to Grips

17 June 1944
South Yorkshire Times June 17, 1944 Getting to Grips These last ten days have been the most heartening since Britain took up arms against the all-pervading...

Editorial – Secret Weapons

24 June 1944
South Yorkshire Times, June 24, 1944 Secret Weapons Reprisals for allied bombing attacks on Germany have been long promised. This was one of the hopes used...

Wedding – Skelton & Ranger

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 22nd, 1944 Wedding Skelton & Ranger Miss Barbara Skelton, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Skelton, 45, Bridge Street, Swinton,...

Wedding – Hince & Smedley

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 1st, 1944 A peal was rung on Swinton St. Margaret’s Church tubular bells while members and candidates of St. Michael’s Church...

Wedding – Lowe & Hellewell

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 15th 1944 The wedding was solemnised at St. Margaret’s Church, Swinton, of Miss Audrey Lowe, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs....

Wedding – Oxer & Higgins

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 1st, 1944 Wedding – Oxer & Higgins Miss Kathleen Mary Oxer, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Oxer, 10, Prince Seet,...

Successful Swinton Garden Fete – Prize Winning Babies

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 29th, 1944 Successful Swinton Garden Fete Mrs F. R. Moberly with some of the prize-winning babies and their mothers at the Manvers...

Backing up Second Front – Record Output at Kilnhurst Works

July 1944
South Yorkshire Timmes, July 1st 1944 Members Of The First Unit Of Women Forge Workers At The Kilnhurst Works Of Baker And Bessemer Ltd. Three years...

Cinema – Roxy – Oh My Darling Clementine

July 1944
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Marconigrams – July 09th 1944

July 1944
South Yorkshire Timers, July 9th, 1944 Marconigrams Mr. Frederick Allen, the well-known BBC newsreader and announcer has promised to attend the Montagu Hospital “Dig for Victory”...