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Editorial – Getting to Grips

17 June 1944
South Yorkshire Times June 17, 1944 Getting to Grips These last ten days have been the most heartening since Britain took up arms against the all-pervading...

Editorial – Secret Weapons

24 June 1944
South Yorkshire Times, June 24, 1944 Secret Weapons Reprisals for allied bombing attacks on Germany have been long promised. This was one of the hopes used...

Wedding – Jones & Elsey

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 29th, 1944 Wedding: Miss B. Jones (West Melton) and Mr. H. Elsey (Brampton) The wedding took place at the Brampton Parish Church...

Wedding – Londesbro & Spreckley

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 1, 1944 R.S.M. C. G. Spreckley (Wath) and Miss A. Londesbro (Thurnscoe), a report of whose wedding appeared in Our last...

Wedding – Nuttall & Burditt

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 1st, 1944 Mr. D. Burditt (Wath) and Miss A. Nuttall (Wath) The wedding took place on Saturday at Wath Parish Church of...

Wedding – Riley & Ellis

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 22nd, 1944 A “Dorsetshire” survivor, Marine Leslie Ellis, (24), grandson of Mr. and Mrs. William Ellis, of 60, Winterwell Rod, West...

Awarded Scholarship

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 22nd 1944 Awarded Scholarship Mary Cope (17) niece of Mr. and Mrs. H. Lightley, 5, Beech Road, Wath, has been awarded a...

Successful Swinton Garden Fete – Prize Winning Babies

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 29th, 1944 Successful Swinton Garden Fete Mrs F. R. Moberly with some of the prize-winning babies and their mothers at the Manvers...

New Rural Councillor Coun. – A. H. Varney of Brampton

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 15th 1944 New Rural Councillor Coun. A. H. Varney of Brampton Coun. A. H. Varney, of 3, Knollbeck Avenue, Brampton Bierlow, who has...

Cinema – Grand – Alexander’s Rag Time Band

July 1944
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