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Marconigrams – December 02nd 1944
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944
Marconigrams
The Mining Association of Great Britain is to appoint a Director of Recruitment, Training and Education, at a salary...
Editorial – A Well Kept Watch
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944
A Well Kept Watch
On Sunday the Home Guard formally “stands down.” In the critical days which followed the Dunkirk...
Mr & Mrs Critchley – Golden Wedding.
South Yorkshire Times, July 24, 1943
Golden Wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Critchley, 13,Green Gate Close, Bolton, celebrated their golden wedding on Monday.
Both are natives of...
Soldier – Wood, Joseph – Ill in Middle East
South Yorkshire Times, July 24, 1943
Ill in M.E.
Mr. and Mrs. Wood, of 71, Ingsfield Lane, have been officially notified that their son, Pte. Joseph...
Editorial – Hard Pounding
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944
Hard Pounding
General Eisenhower, like Wellington at Waterloo, is seeing who can pound longer. It is a test of many...
Editorial – Well Begun
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 17 July 1943
Well Begun
The Second Front, about which so much has been said and written, particularly since Mr. Churchill...
Editorial – America’s Choice
South Yorkshire Times, November 11th 1944
America’s Choice
President Roosevelt’s re-election for a fourth term as President of the United States is not surprising, but in...
Editorial – Election in the Air
South Yorkshire Times, November 4th 1944
Election in the Air
Since it seems that sooner or later we must resign ourselves to a resumption of the...
Wedding – Drewery & Vickers
South Yorkshire Times, October 28th 1944
Wedding – Drewery & Vickers
Miss Magaret Ann Drewery, 24, Brewery Terrace, Wath, and Mr. Albert Ernest Vickers, 151, Ingsfield...
Soldier – Westerman, Arthur – Missing
South Yorkshire Times, October 28th 1944
Missing
Mrs. Arthur Westerman of 55, Wath Road, has received official notification this week that her husband, Pte. A. Westerman...
Bolton Headmaster’s Busy Career
South Yorkshire Times, October 21st 1944
Mr. H. A. Kerry
Bolton Headmaster’s Busy Career
When Mr. Henry Augustus Kerry, headmaster of Bolton Junior Boys’ School retires on...
Editorial – Root and Branch
South Yorkshire Times, October 21st 1944
Root and Branch
If Hitler and Himmler have their way the war will go on for a good deal yet,...
Editorial – “White Paper” On Peace
South Yorkshire Times, October 14th 1944
“White Paper” On Peace
A White Paper on international security. That description seems to fit the report on the Dumbarton...
Editorial – A Winter Campaign?
South Yorkshire Times, October 7th 1944
A Winter Campaign?
With Christmas less than three months away and the Germans still hanging on grimly to their frontier...
The Great Blizzard
South Yorkshire Times March 3, 1933
The Great Blizzard
The severest snowstorm in living memory broke over South Yorkshire on Friday afternoon and continued without intermission...
Editorial – A Great Step Forward
South Yorkshire Times, September 30th 1944
A Great Step Forward
Having held the pass for a critical period in this greatest of wars Britain now proposes...
Remanded In Custody – Shop-Breaking Charge
South Yorkshire Times, September 30th 1944
Remanded In Custody
Bolton Man on Shop-Breaking Charge
Jack Hirst (33), miner of Bolton-on-Dearne, was at the Doncaster West Riding Court...
Editorial – The Fight for the Rhine
South Yorkshire Times, September 23rd 1944
The Fight for the Rhine
Since the last war the fact that Germany “gave in too soon” has often been...
Soldier – Buxton, Samuel – Hit Mine After Escape
South Yorkshire Times, September 16th 1944
Hit Mine After Escape
Bolton Man’s Bad Luck
From a hospital bed in Italy, Lance-Cpl. Samuel Buxton wrote to his parents,...
Editorial – The Nazi Struggle for Survival
South Yorkshire Times, September 16th 1944
The Nazi Struggle for Survival
Hitler’s boasts that he had thrust the war six hundred miles from the frontiers of...
Editorial – The Nazi Struggle for Survival
South Yorkshire Times, September 16th 1944
The Nazi Struggle for Survival
Hitler’s boasts that he had thrust the war six hundred miles from the frontiers of...
Marconigrams – September 09th 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 9th 1944
Marconigrams
Collections for the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund in the Dearne area for the month of August realised £130/11/1.
Final figures...
Soldiers – Woods Brothers – Brothers Meet In Naples
South Yorkshire Times, September 9th 1944
Brothers Meet In Naples
Cpl. Fred Woods R.A.M.C., and L./Ac. Jack Woods are brothers and sons of Mr. and Mrs....
Editorial – Sparring For the Knock-Out
South Yorkshire Times, September 9th 1944
Sparring For the Knock-Out
Where the German army overran Holland, Belgium, and France in a matter of weeks the Allies...
Runaway Tubs – Man Dies Month After Accident
South Yorkshire Times, September 9th 1944
Runaway Tubs
Goldthorpe Man Dies Month After Accident
The theory was advanced at a Mexborough inquest on Friday, that the twisting...