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Editorial – America’s Choice
South Yorkshire Times, November 11th 1944
America’s Choice
President Roosevelt’s re-election for a fourth term as President of the United States is not surprising, but in...
Editorial – Election in the Air
South Yorkshire Times, November 4th 1944
Election in the Air
Since it seems that sooner or later we must resign ourselves to a resumption of the...
Editorial – Twice Taught Lesson
South Yorkshire Times 18 November 1944
Twice Taught Lesson
Royal Air Force Lancasters intervened dramatically in the inconclusive Battleships versus Bombs debate this week. The sinking...
Editorial – Hard Pounding
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944
Hard Pounding
General Eisenhower, like Wellington at Waterloo, is seeing who can pound longer. It is a test of many...
Wedding – Buxton & Drakeford
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944
Wedding: Flight Sergeant. H. Drakeford (Swinton)
and Miss P. B. Buxton (Swinton)
The wedding took place at St. Margaret’s Church, Swinton,...
“Walk-Round Fairyland” – Swinton Red Cross Effort
South Yorkshire Times, December 23rd 1944
“Walk-Round Fairyland”
Swinton Red Cross Effort
A photo taken at Swinton “Walk-Round Fairyland” shows Father Christmas (Captain M. Tyas), and four...
Marconigrams – December 02nd 1944
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944
Marconigrams
The Mining Association of Great Britain is to appoint a Director of Recruitment, Training and Education, at a salary...
Editorial – A Well-Kept Watch
South Yorkshire Times, 2 December 1944
A Well-Kept Watch
On Sunday the Home Guard formally “stands down.” In the critical days which followed the Dunkirk evacuation,...
Editorial – Greece in Travail
South Yorkshire Times, 16 December 1944
Greece in Travail
There is a significant obduracy about ‘the manner in which the Greek ‘“rebels” (as General Scobie's...
Snow at Swinton Station
South Yorkshire Times, January 11, 1947
Snow clung to the uneven stone wall at Swinton L.M.S. railway station to produce this dainty nature-made pattern reminiscent...