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Melton Brothers’ Savage Behaviour

May 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 25, 1928 Bolton House Bombarded Melton Brothers' Savage Behaviour A disturbance at Bolton-on-Dearne on May 5th when the window of a miner's...

Introduction to Polo.

May 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 18, 1928 Introduction to Polo. A Wath team demonstrating the water polo game to an interested crowd in the new baths...

Smallpox Victim – The Plight of a Wath Girl at Blackpool.

June 1928
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 06 June 1928 Smallpox Victim.  The Plight of a Wath Girl at Blackpool. The plight of a stranded servant girl was...

Crushed By Roof – Wath Trammer’s Fate – Comrade’s Narrow Escape.

June 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 1, 1928 Crushed By Roof. Wath Trammer's Fate. Comrade's Narrow Escape. Mr. J. Kenyon Parker held an inquest at Wath on Saturday on...

Choir Festival At Swinton.

June 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 15, 1928 Choir Festival At Swinton. The head of the great procession of choristers passing into the Swinton Churchyard for the...

Swinton 116  Wath 118 for 8  – Keen Contest at Swinton- Wath’s Worthy Win

June 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 29, 1928 Keen Contest at Swinton Wath’s Worthy Win Swinton 116  Wath 118 for 8   Wath won a keenly contested game, and...

Plucky Rescue At Brampton – Non-Swimmer Jumps into Deep Water.

July 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times July 20, 1928 Plucky Rescue At Brampton Non-Swimmer Jumps into Deep Water. A brave rescue was effected at Brampton Bierlow on Sunday. At...

West Melton Man Dies at Cortonwood

July 1928
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 30 July 1928 At an inquest at Wath-on-Dearne on Saturday on John Edward Woodger (30), who met his death at...

Youngest Qualified Ambulance Man

July 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times July 1, 1928 Perhaps Stanley Green, aged 12, of 2, Oakland Terrace, Wath, is the youngest qualified ambulance man in the...

Street Clash – Rival Gangs in Scuffle at Wombwell

July 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times July 20, 1928 Street Clash. Rival Gangs in Scuffle at Wombwell A scuffle in the street at Wombwell between rival gangs of youths...