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Fashionable Wath Wedding – Gough & Hatton

November 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times, November 19, 1937 A fashionable wedding took place at the Wath-on-Dearne Parish Church on Saturday, when Miss Mabel Constance Gough, only...

Weddings – Middleton & Wadsworth – Knibbs & Turner

November 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times, November 1937 Miss Sally Middleton, Westville West Melton and Mr Wadsworth at Wath Parish Church Miss Muriel Knibbs, 91 Berman Road and Mr Henry Mawson...

Pit Death Mystery – Boy Crushed by Rock

November 1937
Leeds Mercury - Tuesday 16 November 1937 Pit Death Mystery Boy Crushed by Rock at Cortonwood Colliery The mystery of how a 15-year-old haulage hand, found...

Shunting Yard – Wath System To Be Electrified

November 1937
Sheffield Independent - Saturday 20 November 1937 Shunting Yard Wath System To Be Electrified Wath marshalling yard, one of the earliest and most important shunting...

Bull’s Eye ?

November 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times November 5, 1937 Bull's Eye ? Mr JA Braithwaite, J.P., Chairman of Wath Urban Council, Chinese look at the shooting range at...

Wath Show – Dry Season Hits Entries of Vegetables

November 1937
Sheffield Independent - Friday 12 November 1937 Wath Show Dry Season Hits Entries of Vegetables Mrs. O. J Philipson yesterday opened the 33rd annual show promoted...

Wath Head Leaving

November 1937
Sheffield Independent - Saturday 13 November 1937 Wath Head Leaving After being headmistress of the Park Road infants School, Wath on Dearne, for nearlv 30...

Railway (Accident)

December 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times December 3, 1937 Railway (Accident) Things are not as bad as they look. The “patient” who was treated at the Wath L.N.E.R....

Weddings – Burton & Coleridge – Dale & Royston – Wilkinson & Dyson

December 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times December 1937 Miss Dorothy Barbara Burton, Furlong Road, Bolton on Dearne and Mr Granville Coleridge, Montgomery Road, Wath on Dearne at Goldthorpe Parish...

Complaints That Wath Ignores Precautions – “Havoc If Smallpox Started”

December 1937
Sheffield Independent - Wednesday 08 December 1937 “Havoc If Smallpox Started” Complaints That Wath Ignores Precautions Complaints of poor response to appeals for immunisation against diphtheria...