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Looking Back on 1952 – Beginning of a New Reign

January 1953
South Yorkshire Times and Express – Saturday 3 January 1953 Looking Back on 1952 Beginning of a New Reign South Yorkshire Scrapbook 1952 and 1953 will be linked...

Tailpiece – 3 January 1953 – How Many Fingers ?

January 1953
South Yorkshire Times and Express – Saturday 3 January 1953 Tailpiece TWO breezy Westerners who visited Wall Street in search of funds for mine developments were...

B.E.M. Award for Wath

January 1953
South Yorkshire Times and Express – Saturday 3 January 1953 B.E.M. Award for Wath MRS. BLANCHE STEPHENSON, housewife, of Torleigh, Festival Road, Wath, receives a B.E.M....

Pits Worked at Week-End

January 1953
South Yorkshire Times and Express – Saturday 3 January 1953 Pits Worked at Week-End Output figures for the first three days of last week at the...

Wath Man’s O.B.E.

January 1953
South Yorkshire Times and Express – Saturday 3 January 1953 Wath Man’s O.B.E. New Year Honour for Mr. Arthur Thomson Awarded an O.B.E. in the New Year’s...

Marconigrams – Saturday 28 June 1924

June 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 28 June 1924 Marconigrams The Dearne Valley District Light Railway will be opened, subject to the Board of Trade inspection...

Marconigrams – Saturday 14 June 1924

June 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 14 June 1924 Marconigrams The late Councillor John Robinson, of Wombwell, left estate of the value of £30,382. The Order of...

Marconigrams – Saturday 07 June 1924

June 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 07 June 1924 Marconigrams The Wath Medical Officer holds that school parties for Wembley should be vaccinated. The expensive tip we...

Marconigrams – Saturday 21 June 1924

June 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 21 June 1924 Marconigrams Mexborough Feast opens this week-end. It is in the hard school of life that men get the...

Conisbro’ 55  Wath 105 for 6

9 July 1904
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 09 July 1904 Conisbro' 55  Wath 105 for 6 Played at Conisbro' on Monday. W. Farrar had his hand broken, and a...

Wath 147 Dnaby & Cadeby 70

2 July 1904
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 2 July 1904 The Downfall of Denaby. Wath 147  Denaby & Cadeby 70 The outlook at Wath, on Saturday, about an...

Challenge Cup Competition

27 October 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – October 27, 1893 Sheffield and Hallamshire Football Association Challenge Cup Competition There were five matches down for decision on Saturday, and in...

Local Club Records up to Date

Mexborough & Swinton Times – October 27, 1893 Local Club Records up to Date Matches marked: L = Sheffield League; C = Sheffield Cup; E.C. =...

Mass Meeting of Miners (illustration)

October 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 27 October 1893 Mass Meeting of Miners

The Coal War – Friday 13 October 1893

October 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 13 October 1893 The Coal War Developments of the Dispute—The Mayors, Masters, and Men—Breach of Faith at Wath—An Engineman's Courage—Condition...

Deaths – 13 October 1893

October 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 13 October 1893 Deaths Hepton.—October 5, at 34, Doncaster Road, Denaby, Maud, daughter of William Hepton, aged 3 years. Asbury.—October 6,...

The Coal War

October 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 6 October 1893 The Coal War Present Prospects of a Settlement.—Manvers Main Men Firm.—Denaby Anxious to Start Working Again.—Soldiers Still...

Deaths – 16 September 1881

September 1881
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 16 September 1881 Deaths CADMAN.—On the 13th inst., at Millfield, York, William Smelter Cadman, eldest son of the late William...

Deaths – 30 September 1881

September 1881
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 30 September 1881 Deaths BLACKIE.—On the 20th inst., at William-street, Swinton, Martha Ann Blackie, aged 5 years. BURGESS.—On the 25th September,...

Marconigrams – Saturday 29 October 1960

October 1960
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 29 October 1960 Marconigrams The Queen has decided that November 13th shall be observed as Remembrance Sunday. The Two Minutes Silence...

Teachers at Wedgewood

October 1960
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 29 October 1960  

Wedding – Picken & Appleton

October 1960
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 8 October 1960 Miss Margaret Picken and Mr. Keith Appleton, both of Wath, leave Wath Parish Church after their wedding...

Marconigrams – Saturday 15 March 1952

March 1952
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 15 March 1952 Marconigrams ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── A rate of 24s. in the £—and an increase of 3s.—has been declared at Darfield. ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Armour plate castings...

Barnburgh Heat Complaint

March 1952
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 15 March 1952 Barnburgh Heat Complaint Three Faces on Strike A dispute which affected three faces in the Barnsley and Parkgate Seams...

Dispute Cut No. 3 Output

March 1952
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 8 March 1952 Dispute Cut No. 3 Output The five-day dispute at Kilnhurst Colliery affected output in No. 3 Area of...