January

Contents:
Gold & Siver Wedding
– Double Occasion
– Rissbrook & Osborne
Golden Memories
– Bet That Made it Possible
Wants a Change
– So Brampton Nurse Going to Australia
Weddings:
– Davis & Ellis
– Whaley & Sanderson
A Party at Brampton
District Industrial Leaders Confident
Brampton Church Sunday School Party
Younger Ripper Dies
– Friend Charged with Manslaughter

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February

Contents:
A Village Worthy
Wath Girl is Reported Missing
Weddings:
– Dyson & Nadin
– Parents’ Silver Wedding Day
– Shuttleworth & Green
– West & Shaw
Youth Entertained
Fatality at Manvers Main
– Man dies in Boiling Cauldron
Wath Labour Party’s Annual Dinner
Cinema –Grand – Next To No Time
West Street Methodist Re Opening
A Famous Autograph (video)
Wath British Legion Club
– “Lighthouse” Pennies for N.I. for Blind
Old Wathonians 11 Sheffield TC 6

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March

Contents:
Wath Grammar School speech day
Weddings:
– Sutcliffe & Fox
– Alsbury & Smith
– Lingard & Bailey
– Moorhead & Blaney
– Pearson & Mallon
– Swift & Thorpe
“Workers’ V.C.” For West Melton Man
Colliery Sports & Welfare Club
– “Coal Queen” Ball
Cinema – Grand
– The Golden Age of Comedy
Wath Co-operative Junior choir
Ladies Circle Presentation
Wath Grammar School Speech Day
Cross-Country Title
Inter-Departmental Indoor Games

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April

Contents:
Golden Wedding Memories
A youth club banquet
Weddings:
– Burns & Webb
– Ashton & Ackwright
– Lancley & Robinson
– O’connor & Holmes
– Kirkby & Ogerthorpe
– Spencer & Cutts
Wath Main coal Queen
Sinner – Grand – The Square Peg (video)
Youth club committee
Presentation to Wath Wood Hospital
Totty Cup
Victory against Swinton Fitzwilliam School

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May

Contents:
Enjoying A Really Sticky Toffee Apple
Local Accident Statistics
Young Wathonian Wins Festival Cup
Weddings:
– Thorpe & Cutts
– Sherburn & Potts
Flashback To 1939
Divisional Ambulance Final
Women’s Gas Garden Party
Occupation Centre – View Of The Main Hall
Cinema – Grand – Mardi Gras
Festival Of Music
Friday Night’s Performance
“The Government Inspector”
“The Telescope” Drama
“Cat” Among Wath Pigeons
Wath Lose At Maltby By 30 Runs
Old Wathonians Plan for New Club House

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June

Contents:
Children of Crowley Drive, Wath.
Wedding – Keeley & Royston
The Printing Dispute
Wath Main Fire Fighting Team
Crowley Drive – “Coronation” Queen,
Wath Grammar School Sports
– Boys Hurdles
– Jean Beasley Breaks The Tape
Co-operative Girls’ Choir – “Ali-Ba-Ba,”
Cricket Results – June 28, 1969

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July

Printing Strike

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August

Contents:
Mr. W. Green, M.B.E.
– Many Mourners at uneral
“Facial Shampoo” for a Beast
German Visitor to Wath
– Pen Pals Holiday Together
Resignation of Mr. J. W, Poole
– 50 Years’ of Ambulance Work
Tattoo Musician
Weddings:
– Parkin & Turner
– Hunt & Thompson
– Jessop & Wilson
– Lambert & Weston
– Oxley & Shirley
– Taught & Barker
– Wilde & Senior
– Bentcliffe & Hall
Cinema – Grand – Carry on Nurse (video)
West Street Methodist Church Bring & Buy
West Melton Westville Angling section
Brampton Ellis Speech Day
Continental Touch at Manvers
Inter Grammar School Sports
Yorkshire Council – Final Table

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September

Contents:
Wath Wood Hospital Recreation Hall
Girl Missing – Need Of Tablets
Nurse “Top Priority” Trip From Cyprus
Weddings:
– Emmerson & Purcell
– Hirst & Turner
– Jones & Simpson
– Owen & Biram
– Oxer & Cresswell
– Plane & Davidson
– Simms & Marston
– Warrender & Lovell
– Wilkinson & White
– Winder & Steele
– Wolstenholme & Ward
– Wren & Law
Manvers Juvenile Angling Competition
Manvers Colliery Sports
“What’s my Line?” at Waterstone
Wath Main Coking Plant
Clear Majority Decision
– Coun. E. Wainwright is Chosen
Cinema – Grand – Al Capone
Society of Friends’ Garden Party
– Fancy Dress Parade
Wath Parish Church Garden Party
Wath Parish Church Scouts
Allotment & Garden Society Annual Show
Allotment Association Awards
Plough Inn Harvest Festival
Q.I.D.N. Garden Party
British Legion Club Annual Outing.
Wath Over 60’s Club Outing
Double Marrow at West Melton.
Manvers Main Individual Bowls Final

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October

Contents:
Unpleasant Experience
– Couple’s Remarkable Escape
Weddings:
– Nicholson & Breedon
– Deighton & Southall
– Harrison & Parkin
– Harvey & Barber
– Hutchinson & Ward
Smith’s of Melton Fashion Parade
“What’s My Line?” at Church House
Wath Parish Church Social
George and Dragon Sea Angling Club
West Melton Over 60’s Harvest Festival
Winterwell Homing Society Presentation
Dolls’ Day at Wath
Old Wathonians 22  Ripon 5
– Advance in Yorkshire Cup
Cinema – Grand – Son of Robin Hood
Wath Amateurs’ Cricket Club
Old Wathonians 18; Barnsley 13.
– Sides Master Swirling Wind
Wath Golf Club Dinner and Presentation

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November

Contents:
Fire Damage at Wath
Golden Wedding -Mr & Mrs Smith
Fine Record As First-Aider
– Awards for 49 Years Service
Soldier Has the Spirit of Adventure
Wedding – Fletcher & Dyer
Colliery Fatality Inquest
– “Chance in a Thousand” Stone Fall
Brampton Church Christmas Bazaar
Cinema – Grand – Look Back in Anger
Wath Methodist Church Christmas bazaar
Old People’s Treat at Victoria School
Wath Hollies W.MC. Presentation
Winterwell Ward Old Folks Treat
Schools Exchange Recommended
– Governors Explain Problem
Old Wathonians v Barnsley
Halifax Vandals 14  Old Wathonians 9
– Dismissed From Yorkshire Cup

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December

Contents:
Wedding – Hasdell & Dunn
Wedding – Law & Vickers
Princess Street Methodist Church Bazaar
Activity Play With A Difference.
Ladies’ Darts League Individual Trophy
British Legion Snooker Championship
Mentally Handicapped Children Society
Wath W.V.S. Sale of Work
Wath Grammar School Sparta House Party
Wath National Infants’ School Party
St Joseph’s Infants’ Christmas Party
Old Wathonians 3 Rotherham 3
– Rotherham Magnificent

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