Mexborough & Swinton Times – September 9, 1939

A Pretty Picture Taken After The Ceremony.

Born shortly after the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Miss Lydia Hoyland, a member of the nursing staff of the Mexborough Montagu Hospital, has been married in these early days of the new conflict with Germany.

Miss Hoyland, who is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Hoyland, 16, Barnsley Road,Wath-on-Dearne, was married at Wath Parish Church on Monday, to Mr. Tom Radford, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Radford, 17, Co-operative Street, West Melton, and brother of Bernard Radford, the one-time Sheffield United footballer.

The Vicar of Wath, the Rev. Bertram Russell, officiated.

The bride was given away by her father, and wore white figured satin beaute, cut on simple lines, with wreath and veil. She carried pink roses. Her attendants were Misses Betty and Pauline Hoyland, Doreen and Eileen Creaser, Kathleen Woolard and Margaret Maiden. Miss Creaser and Miss Maiden wore ice-blue figured angelskin and carried sweet peas: the other bridesmaids wore lavender figured angelskin, and had posies of anemones.

The best man was Mr. Frank Hoyland, the bride’s brother, and the groomsman, Mr. Jack Cauwood. A reception was held at the home of the bride’s parents, and bride and bridegroom later returned„ to Sheffield, where they are to live. A promised honeymoon to North Wales had to be cancelled.

Miss Hoyland is an Old Wathonian, and received her nursing training at the Jessop’s Hospital, Sheffield. She subsequently became a nurse receptionist to a London dentist, and later returned to the Mexborough Montagu Hospital, where she was up to the time of her marriage. She was at one time a member of the Old Wathonians’ hockey team.

As the bridesmaids lived in outlying districts, they brought their gas masks with them to the wedding.