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How the Local Midland League Clubs Fared

11 May 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 10 May 1924 An Interesting Season How the Local Midland League Clubs Fared Mexborough's Primacy In the season just ended the four...

Midland League – Final Table

11 May 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 10 May 1924 Midland League – Final Table Club P W L D F A Pts Mansfield Town 42 31 5 6 98 31 68 Grimsby Town Res. 42 25 11 6 99 46 56 Worksop Town 42 25 13 4 93 54 54 Mexborough 42 22 13 7 78 65 51 Notts County Res. 42 22 13 7 83 51 50 Denaby Utd. 42 18 15 9 52 51 45 Scunthorpe Utd. 42 20 14 8 55 50 48 Hull City Res. 42 19 15 8 70 48 46 Notts Forest Res. 42 18 15 9 52 51 45 Sutton Town 42 20 19 3 66 73 43 Chesterfield...

Marconigrams – Saturday 10 May 1924

May 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 10 May 1924 Marconigrams The glass trade at Conisbrough is reported to be improving. Miners are due to receive this week...

Marconigrams – Saturday 29 March 1913

March 1913
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 29 March 1913 Marconigrams The local places of entertainment have done big business during Eastertide. Great developments are being made in...

Marconigrams – Saturday 22 March 1913

March 1913
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 22 March 1913 Marconigrams This year, spring begins on Good Friday. A new picture palace is to be opened at Wath...

Marconigrams – Saturday 15 March 1913

March 1913
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 15 March 1913 Marconigrams The question of Urban Powers for Conisboro’ and Denaby is being revived. The next issue of the...

Marconigrams – November 6th 1943

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 6th 1943 Marconigrams The Swinton branch of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has been revived. Coun. P.B. Nicholson,...

Troublesome Customer At West Melton

November 1933
South Yorkshire Times, November 3rd 1933 In Row - Troublesome Customer At West Melton Walter Adams (25), miner, West Melton, was fined 20s. at Rotherham on...

Marconigrams – Saturday 04 June 1904

June 1904
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 04 June 1904 Marconigrams. A post-office has been opened in Victoria street, Mexboro’. It is two years last Tuesday since peace...

Marriages & Deaths – 01 September 1893

September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 1 September 1893 Marriages. Goode—Bradley.—August 20, at the Register Office, Barnsley, James Albert Goode to Elizabeth Bradley, both of Darfield. Johnson—Parkes.—August...

Marriages & Deaths – Friday 22 September 1893

September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 22 September 1893 Marriages. Platt—Holmes.—September 10, at the Registry Office, Doncaster, by special license, Albert Platt, only son of Mr....

Marriages & Deaths – Friday 15 September 1893

September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 15 September 1893 Marriages. Hattersley—Marshall.—September 13, at the Parish Church, Cheltenham, by the Rev. E. D. Boswell, assisted by the...

The Coal War – Ballotting on the Proposed Partial Resumption of Work.

September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 29 September 1893 The Coal War. Ballotting on the Proposed Partial Resumption of Work. Everything Quiet, Soldiers and Police Leaving the...

Marriages & Deaths – Friday 29 September 1893

September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 29 September 1893 Marriages. Brown—Ackroyd.—September 19, at the Register Office, Barnsley, John Brown to Mary A. Ackroyd, both of Lundhill. Edd—Peace.—On...

The Coal War – Signs of Peace

September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 22 September 1893 The Coal War Signs of Peace Yorkshire Delegates in Durham Distress in the District Coalowners offer the Olive Branch The Beginning...

The Coal War – Riots and Rumours of Riots.

September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 15 September 1893 The Coal War Riots and Rumours of Riots. Soldiers in the District. Pits under Protection. Miners Determined to Prevent Damage. A...

Marriages & Deaths

September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 08 September 1893 Marriages. Walker—Watkinson.—September 5, at Mexborough Church, by the Rev. R. R. Roseveare, Willie Walker to Annie Watkinson,...

Wath Main Riot – Reckless & Wanton Damage – Gang of Drunken Ruffians.

September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 08 September 1893 The Wath Main Riot. Reckless and Wanton Damage.—Fire. Fiends of Mischief at Work.—A Gang of Drunken Ruffians. The Police...

Meeting of Miners

August 1881
Midland & Northern Coal & Iron Trades Gazette - Wednesday 17 August 1881 Meeting of Miners On Monday evening a meeting of miners from Denaby Main,...

Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade

August 1881
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Friday 12 August 1881 The Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade The official return of the quantity of coal...

1960 in Retrospect – Flash-Back on Items of News Interest

January 1961
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 07 January 1961 1960 in Retrospect Flash-Back on Items of News Interest in an Eventful Old Year Do You Remember These? January Hundreds of...

Marconigrams – November 3rd, 1933

November 1933
South Yorkshire Times, November 3rd, 1933 Marconigrams "Anything for an unquiet life—that’s the modem slogan."—Mr. Ingleby Oddie. October was the best trading month in the Yorkshire coal...

Marconigrams – November 10th, 1933

South Yorkshire Times,  November 10th, 1933 Marconigrams The next Wath Rural Deanery Choirs Festival will be held in 1935. Get ready to join our great knitting contest....

Wombwell November 24th, 1933

Page 13 South Yorkshire Times, November 24th, 1933 Wombwell A man with a rabbit attracted attention in Wood Walk on Tuesday evening. We were right in surmising...

Denaby Rovers 7 Wath & West Melton 2

South Yorkshire Times, February 9, 1952