South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 03 January 1942

Marconigrams

Mr. Charles A. Charlton, of Middleton Collieries, Leeds, has been appointed manager at Cortonwood Colliery In place of Mr. H. Fawcett, who has retired.

Caron H. T. Eddershaw, Vicar of Conisbrough, formerly Vicar of St. Augustine’s, Sheffield, who is in the Royal Infirmary after an operation, is still very poorly.

A presentation is to be made on Saturday afternoon in Swinton Church Hall to the Vicar, the Rev. T. G. Rogers, who is this month taking over the position of Rector of Tankersley.

The story of how a young mother woke up on Christmas morning to find her baby dead in its cot was told at the inquest at Wombwell on Saturday on Susan Mary Brackpool, 11-months-old child of Charles William Brackpool, a canteen manager, now serving the with the Forces. A verdict of “Death by misadventure” was recorded.

Miss Ruth Gebody, who died at Rotherham on Christmas Day at the age of 83, was in her younger days a Sunday school teacher at Swinton.

Sergt. Stanley Barraclough, RA.F., son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Barraclough, Tunstall Cross, Wombwell, is reported missing from an operational flight.

The Rev. H. W. Quarrel], Vicar of Elsecar since May, 1939, has accepted the living of Swinton rendered vacant by the acceptance of the living of Tankersley by the Rev. T. G. Rogers.

Mr. George Baker, managing director of Messrs. Baker and Bessemer, Ltd., of Kilnhurst, and Rotherham, and his co-director, Mr. Edward Baker, have purchased the old-established works of Messrs. Woodhouse and Rixson, manufacturers of forgings, of Attercliffe, Sheffield, which came under their control on January 1st.

Sir William Bartholomew, the Regional Commissioner, in a New Year message, states, “I take this opportunity to send to all members of the Civil Defence Services of the North Eastern Region my best wishes for the New Year. It is not too much to say that, thanks to the hard work and devotion of the full-time and part-time members of the Services, great progress has been made during 1941, both in organisation and in training of all the Services. I am confident that the same spirit will prevail in 1942 and that progress will be continuous. This country is, and must be, the main arsenal and base for the Empire and the Civil Defence Services are proud, I know to have the honour of playing a part in its defence. Let us each and all begin 1942 with the resolve to spare no effort to contribute our utmost during the coming year to the great cause we have in hand.”