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Editorial – Home Again

30 October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 30th 1943 Home Again Many homes, not a few in South Yorkshire itself, have been blessed this week by the return of...

Editorial – The Monomaniac

14 October 1939
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 14 October 1939 The Monomaniac Hitler has got his answer. The worst he can do is more tolerable than the...

Montagu Hospital – The Weeks Casualty List

October 1939
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 28 October 1939 Montagu Hospital The Weeks Casualty List Admitted cases: Sunday: Elizabeth Harrington, Sandygate Wath, back injuries, road accident: Mary...

Editorial – Adolf Strafe England

28 October 1939
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 28 October 1939 Adolf Strafe England The war still hangs fire but the German Foreign Minister came in front of the...

Mexborough Wardens Win Cup

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 13th 1943 Mexborough Wardens Win Cup The final for the Shillito Cup, open to teams of Wardens of the Mexborough Sub-Division, was...

Editorial – November 13th, 1943 – To The Bitter End

13 November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 13th 1943 To The Bitter End Hitler’s speech, sandwiched between those of Marshal Stalin and Mr. Churchill, did not gain anything...

Editorial – Ripening The Harvest

27 November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 27th 1943 Ripening The Harvest The Bomb blizzard which has struck Berlin during the last few days while only a further...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – November 13th 1943

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 13th 1943 Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List Wednesday Reginald Gilbert, 115, Wath Road, Mexborough, foreign body in eye; Derek Earp (13), 95,...

Soldier – Muscroft, Vera – In A.T.S.

December 1943
South Yorkshire Times, December 25th 1943 In A.T.S. Vera Muscroft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Muscroft of 101, Furlong Road, Bolton, joined the A.T.S. in...

Editorial – Looking for Trouble

20 November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 20th 1943 Looking For Trouble There is still a good deal that is not clear about the unrest in the Lebanon,...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – November 20th 1943

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 20th 1943 Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List Wednesday Bernard Cooper, 151, Becknoll Road. Brampton, foreign body in eye. Thursday Elizabeth Cole, 8,...

Editorial – Common Cause

6 November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 6th 1943 Common Cause News from Moscow was scanty for the duration of the conference between Britain, the United States and...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – November 27th 1943

November 1943
South Yorkshire Times, November 27th 1943 Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List Wednesday George Hunter, 30, Lindale Gardens, Goldthorpe, foreign body in eye; Betty Nelson (17½)...

Editorial – Women at War

2 October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 2nd 1943 Women at War Mr. Bevin is credited as the initiator of the vast meeting of British women held in...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – October 02nd 1943

October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 2nd 1943 Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List The following casualties were treated at the Montagu Hospital during the week ending September 29th. Wednesday John...

Marconigrams – October 02nd 1943

October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 2nd 1943 Marconigrams Mr. W. J. Harrison, stationmaster at Ashton Park Parade, has been appointed stationmaster at Wath. St. John Ambulance Classes, which...

Editorial – The Coal Debate

16 October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 16th 1943 The Coal Debate A good many straws which have hovered in the wind for the last few weeks were...

Editorial – Europe’s Ordeal

9 October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 9th 1943 Europe’s Ordeal The sack of Naples by the retreating Germans is a horrid foretaste of what is in store...

Editorial – Greece in Travail

16 December 1944
South Yorkshire Times, 16 December 1944 Greece in Travail There is a significant obduracy about ‘the manner in which the Greek ‘“rebels” (as General Scobie's...

Marconigrams – July 29th, 1932

July 1932
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 29 July 1932 Marconigrams Work will commence next week on a new Labour Exchange to be erected in Mexborough. A second...

Wedding – Singleton & Cadwallander – Mexborough Councillor’s Daughter

July 1932
Mexborough & Swinton Times Friday July 29th, 1932 Mexborough Councillor's Daughter Cadwallader-Singleton. Miss Georgine Marg (Mollie) Singleton, elder daughter of Mrs. Marie Singleton and the late...

Editorial – Looking Beyond Victory

23 October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 23rd 1943 Looking Beyond Victory It is unwise to build hopes too high on speeches, even on those of such a reputable...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List

October 1943
South Yorkshire Times, October 23rd 1943 Montagu Hospital The Week's Casualty List Wednesday: Donald Beighton (18). 239, Wath Road, Mexborough, foot injury; Horace Hornsby, 91, Main Street,...

Editorial – A Well-Kept Watch

2 December 1944
South Yorkshire Times, 2 December 1944 A Well-Kept Watch On Sunday the Home Guard formally “stands down.” In the critical days which followed the Dunkirk evacuation,...

Editorial – Twice Taught Lesson

18 November 1944
South Yorkshire Times 18 November 1944 Twice Taught Lesson Royal Air Force Lancasters intervened dramatically in the inconclusive Battleships versus Bombs debate this week. The sinking...