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Wedding – Watson & Holt

September 1970
South Yorkshire Times, September 5, 1970 Miss Jennifer Watson, of Brooke Avenue, West Melton and Mr. James Holt, of Ellis Crescent, Brampton, after their wedding...

Ex-Wath Boy Helps To Take On Best Of Europe

September 1970
South Yorkshire Times, September 5, 1970 Ex-Wath Boy Helps Tonight To Take On the Best Of Europe Jeux Sans Frontieres" fans at 84,Burman Road, Wath, Mr....

Planting a Plant

10 March 1933
South Yorkshire Times, March 10, 1933 Planting a Plant These two benzol stills were on Sunday delivered on the site of the coke oven and by-product...

School For Mine Officials – Pioneer Scheme Opened

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 14th 1944 School For Mine Officials Pioneer Scheme Opened At Wath A group photograph taken at the opening ceremony including (front row, left...

Marconigrams – October 14th, 1944

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 14th 1944 Marconigrams Full details of the extremely serious effect the present low coal output will have on military operations, and at...

Editorial – “White Paper” On Peace

14 October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 14th 1944 “White Paper” On Peace A White Paper on international security.  That description seems to fit the report on the Dumbarton...

Y.M.A. to Call Strike Failing Satisfaction – “Saturday Afternoon” Dispute

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 14th 1944 Yorkshire Coalfield Council “Saturday Afternoon” Dispute Y.M.A. to Call Strike Failing Satisfaction The Council of the Yorkshire Miners’ Association, at an emergency...

Golden Wedding – Mr & Mrs Braisby

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 7th 1944 Golden Wedding Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Braisby of 1 Wath Wood, who celebrated their golden wedding on September 28th have...

Marconigrams – October 7th, 1944

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 7th 1944 Marconigrams Final returns show that the schools of the country which set themselves a £10,000,00 Salute the Solider target, raised...

Editorial – A Winter Campaign?

7 October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 7th 1944 A Winter Campaign? With Christmas less than three months away and the Germans still hanging on grimly to their frontier...

The Great Thaw

March 1933
South Yorkshire Times, March 10, 1933 “The Great Thaw” Aftermath of the blizzard in the valleys of Dearne and Don. A Photographic Survey of the district during...

The Great Blizzard

March 1933
South Yorkshire Times  March 3, 1933 The Great Blizzard The severest snowstorm in living memory broke over South Yorkshire on Friday afternoon and continued without intermission...

Soldier – Palframan, Charles K. – Wounded In Belgium

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 14th 1944 Wounded In Belgium News has been received by Mrs. C. K. Palframan of “Widecombe,” Stumpcross Road, Wath-on-Dearne, that her husband...

Feared He Would Lose Leg – Brampton Man’s Suicide

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 23rd 1944 Feared He Would Lose Leg Brampton Man’s Suicide Obsessed with the idea that his leg, fractured at work a few months...

Editorial – A Great Step Forward

30 September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 30th 1944 A Great Step Forward Having held the pass for a critical period in this greatest of wars Britain now proposes...

Marconigrams – September 30th, 1944

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 30th 1944 Marconigrams Lt.-Col. H. R. Caulfield Giles, transport and traffic manager of Messrs. Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd., addressed a meeting...

Golden Wedding – Mr & Mrs Braisby

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 30th 1944 Golden Wedding Celebrating their Golden Wedding on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Braisby, of 1, Wath Wood, the house...

Sailor – Booth, John – Prisoner Of War

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 30th 1944 Prisoner Of War Leading Seaman John Booth (24), R.N. of 20 Avenue Road, Wath, who was reported missing from operations...

Wedding – Ford & Adamson

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 23rd 1944 A/C2 S. Adamson (West Melton) and Miss. E. Ford (Mexborough), a report of whose wedding appeared in our last...

Golden Wedding – Mr & Mrs Clarkson

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 23rd 1944 Golden Wedding Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ernest Clarkson of 78 Barnsley Road, Wath, celebrated their Golden Wedding on Saturday with...

Soldier – Cook, Rev. Sam – Former Curate Wounded in Holland

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 7th 1944 Decorated By “Monty” Former Brampton Curate Wounded in Holland Captain the Rev. Sam Cook, M.C. formerly curate of Brampton Bierlow, Wombwell,...

Soldier – Humphreys, Peter Cyril – Killed In Action

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 23rd 1944 Killed In Action Mrs. J. T. Humphreys of 5, Common Lane, Wath, received official intimation on Saturday that her youngest...

Second Suicide in Week – Both Drowned in Same Place

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 23rd, 1944 Second Suicide in A Week Both Drowned in Same Place at Wath At an inquest at Wath on Wednesday, on Harry...

Editorial – The Fight for the Rhine

23 September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 23rd 1944 The Fight for the Rhine Since the last war the fact that Germany “gave in too soon” has often been...

Soldier – Swindells, Fred – Wants News Of Dead Son

October 1944
South Yorkshire Times, October 7th 1944 Mexborough Woman  News has reached Mrs. J. M. Swindells, 42, Morton Road, Mexborough, that her son Gnr, Fred Swindells (29)...