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Pictures and Stories from 1970

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Pictures and Stories from 1960

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Pictures and Stories from 1951

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Pictures and Stories from 1932

April 1932

Contents:
Found Drowned – Miner’s Fate
At Our Service
Wath’s Oldest – Memories Of A Nonogenarian
Councillors:
– Archibold Fouchard
– Frank Bailey
– Frank Burns
– W. Popplewell
Election Address – George Price
Wath Urban District Council – Rents
– Cut 3d – Baths Open Sundays
Charming Lighting Effect
Cinemas:
– Grand – Defenders of the Law
– Majestic – Transatlantic
Marconigrams
– April 8th, 1932
– April 22nd, 1932
– April 29th, 1932
Betting House – “Spot-Ball For Police”

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August 1932
Contents:
Five Generations
– Roman Terrace Patriarch
– Perfectly Fit at 91
Weddings:
– Barnes & Dearden
– Baylis & Henwood
– Dawson & Ellis
– Jackson & Scott
– Taylor & Housman
– Winder & Harrison
Children’s Corner – This Week’s Picture
Advert – A.W.Thompson
Dearne Valley Scythestones
Cinema – Grand – The Avenger
Cinema – Majestic – Men Like These
Fanciers’ Fight – Clash at Newhill
Around the Yorkshire Council

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Pictures and Stories from 1942

April 1942

Contents:
Golden Weddings:

– Manvers Main Pensioner Feted
– Mr & Mrs Walton
Weddings:
– Clearey & Sheldon
– Dilkes & Blaney
– Lidster & Nicholls
– Scutt & Manley
– Vernon & Sturgeon
– North & Marshall
Cinemas:
– Grand – Wagons Roll at Night (video)
– Majestic – No No Nanette (video)
Marconigrams:
– April 4th, 1942
– April 11th, 1942
– April 25th, 1942
Brampton Bump
Manvers Main 5  Stocksbridge 1
– Ten Men Victory
Wednesday Res 0  Manvers Main  3
– Well Done, Manvers
Soldiers & Sailor:
– Ellis, Leslie – Dorsetshire Survivor.
– Atkinson, Roland
– “There’s None That Can Compare.”
– Faulkner, Audrey – With The Forces
Editorial:
– India: Why Now?
– War Commentary
– Spendthrift
– Second Front

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August 1942

Contents:
Golden Wedding – Mr & Mrs Round
Wedding – Reynolds & Haigh
Wedding – Spence & Davis
Wath Property Sale – Beech Road Houses Fetch £2,330
Pit Fatality – Harry Crossley’s Brother
Barnburgh Main Broadcast
– At The Pit Bottom
– Coun. T.H. Barker
– Underground Show Without Hitch
Hospital Potato Week
– More Ambitious Plans for Next Year
Marconigrams:
– August 01 1942
– August 15th, 1942
– August 22nd, 1942
– August 29th, 1942
Property Sale – Beech Road Houses £2,330
Betting House.
Elsecar 131 for 6 Wath 130
Mexborough 115 for 2 Wath  114
Thorncliffe 109 Wath 110 for 4
Soldiers:
– Green, Arthur – Prisoner of War
– Senior, Harry – Missing
– Whitham, Donald Vaughan
– Prisoner in Germany
– Green, Ernest – Good Service Record
– Swann, Douglas – In Italian Hands
Hospital Potato Week
– More Ambitious Plans for Next Year
Editorials:
– Waiting
– Congress Exposed
– The Battering Ram
– A Wonderful Journey (video)
– The Duke of Kent

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Pictures & Stories from 1892

May 1892

Contents:
A Week of Accidents At Wath
Drowning Fatality at Wath
Alarming Accident at Manvers
– Two Killed & Two Injured.
– Inquests
Annual Hospital Sunday
Threatening a Wife at Wath.
Drunk, Gaming, Obstructing Police etc
Drunkenness
Drunks, Bad Language & Gambling
Gaming at Wath
Killing a Pony at Manvers Main
Obscene Language at Wath
Sad Suicide at Brampton Bierlow.
Suicide in Dearne and Dove Canal
Kilnhurst   19  Wath  34

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89 Pictures and Stories from 1919

  • June 1910

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168 Pictures and Stories from 1929

  • October 1929

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Pictures and Stories from 1939

  • February 1939

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89 Pictures and Stories from 1919

  • April 1919

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168 Pictures and Stories from 1929

  • January 1929

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Pictures and Stories from 1939

  • September 1939

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80 Pictures and Stories from 1949

  • September 1949

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164 Pictures and Stories from 1959

  • February 1959

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160 Pictures and Stories from 1969

  • May 1969

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Pictures and Stories from 1916

1916

117 Articles from 1916

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Pictures and Stories from 1917

1917

120 Articles from 1917

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1918

110 Articles from 1918

Pictures and Stories from 1918

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Pictures and Stories from 1927

1927

73 Articles from 1927

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Pictures and Stories from 1928

1928

93 Articles from 1928

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Pictures and Stories from 1937

1937

99 Articles from 1937

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Pictures and Stories from 1938

1938

86 Articles from 1938

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Pictures and Stories from 1939

  • June 1939

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62 Pictures and Stories from 1947

1947

Pictures and Stories from 1948

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Pictures and Stories from 1957

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Pictures and Stories from 1967

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