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Cinema – Majestic – Honky Tonk (video)

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Hospital Potato Week – An Outstanding Success

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South Yorkshire Times, October 10, 1942. Hospital Potato Week An Outstanding Success A group of the organisers photographed on Saturday at the final of the Montagu...

Marconigrams – October 03rd 1942

October 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 03 October 1942 Marconigrams The August road deaths were the lowest for many years. An official return shows that 502 died...

Marconigrams – October 10th, 1942

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South Yorkshire Times, October 10, 1942 Marconigrams The two tyres of a big bomber now weigh close on 8 cwt. Half the sugar consumed in Great...

Marconigrams – October 17th, 1942

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South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 17 October 1942 Marconigrams Mexboroughs Warship Week plaque which la to be presented to H.M.S. Tarantula, the warship the town "...

Marconigrams – October 24th, 1942

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South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 24 October 1942 Marconigrams Gracie Fields, it is reported, will be back in England In twenty-four weeks' time. The new Rector...

Marconigrams – October 31st, 1942

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South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 31 October 1942 Marconigrams Yorkshire Traction Co. announce a drastic curtailment of bus services from November 1st. Magistrates at Rotherham West Riding...

Mark of Adoption – Wath’s Warship Gets Its Plaque

October 1942
South Yorkshire Times, October 17, 1942. Mark of Adoption Wath’s Warship Gets Its Plaque A group photo graphed after the exchange of warship week plaques at Wath...

Airman – Lyons, Thomas Leo – Believed Killed

October 1942
South Yorkshire Times, October 3, 1942. Believed Killed Flight Sergeant. Thomas Leo Lyons (27), son of Mrs. Lyons and the late Mr. P. Lyons, of 38,...

Soldier – Hargreaves F.S. – Died On Active Service

October 1942
South Yorkshire Times, October 3rd, 1942 Died On Active Service Widespread sympathy will be extended to the widow and family of Sgt. Major F. S. Hargreaves,...