South Yorkshire Times, January 17th 1942
Marconigrams
Mr. lan F. Tilbrook, a Wombwell man serving in the Royal Marines, has been promoted captain.
The new Vicar of Swinton, the Rev. H. W. Quarrell, will probably be instituted towards the end of March.
The Co-operative Wholesale Society. Ltd has contributed 500 guineas to the Sneyd Colliery disaster relief fund.
In connection with Wombwell’s Warship Week (January 17th to 24th) Wombwell U.D.C. have decided to invest £2,000 in 1955-65 savings bonds.
Sergt. Stanley Barraclough, R.A.F., of Tunstall Cross, Wombwell, posted missing three weeks ago, is now reported to be a prisoner of war in Germany.
In the National Savings ” County Championship ” for counties with populations of over half a million, Yorkshire stands eighth, the amount raised per head being £9 6s. 5d. Lancashire is top with £15 12s. 5d., and Northumberland bottom with £3 2s. 2d.
The death occurred yesterday (Thursday) at Baslow of Major Herbert Ensor, T.D. Major Ensor, who had been living in retirement at Baslow for some nine years, was 69 and was formerly an engineering official of the L.N.E. Railway Co., being last stationed at West Hartlepool. He served throughout the Boer War and the Great War with the 5th Durham Light Infantry. Major Ensor, who was brother-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Turner, of Swinton, leaves a widow. The funeral will take place at Baslow on Saturday.
Wombwell Warship Week starts this week-end.
Over 1,000 students are now receiving instruction at the Schofield Technical Institute, Mexborough.
Britain’s revenue during the ten days ended Jan. 10th was a record—£102,046,301, an average of 10,204,630 a day.
Mr. G. L. Jones, of Mexborough, has been re-elected President of the Mexborough and District Licensed Victuallers’ Association for the fourteenth year.
The revenue account of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club for 1941 shows a loss of £737 19s. The club’s assets stand at f 27,614. Subscriptions amounted to £1,600 and provision has been made for £1,000 testimonial for Wilfred Barber, who would have taken his benefit in 1940 but for the war, and £500 has been placed in the ground reinstatement fund.
Representatives of the Y.M.A. and of the owners of pits in the Doncaster area met on Tuesday to negotiate claims for damages for breach of contract arising out of absenteeism at pits on New Year’s Day. The negotiations, which lasted for several hours, resulted in agreement to recommend damages of 10s. per man and 5s. per boy. The recommendation will go to the local Y.M.A. branches for confirmation and to the colliery managements. Among the pits not concerned are Rossington. Hatfield. Thorne, and Hickleton.