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Editorial – America’s Choice

4 November 1944
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

4 November 1944
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

October 1944
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

October 1944
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

October 1944
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

21 October 1944
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

14 October 1944
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?

7 October 1944
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

March 1933
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

30 September 1944
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

September 1944
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

23 September 1944
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

September 1944
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

16 September 1944
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

16 September 1944
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

September 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

September 1944
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

9 September 1944
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

September 1944
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...

“Disgrace To District” – Dearne U.D.C. Property Abused

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 9th 1944 “Disgrace To District” Dearne U.D.C. Property Abused “ A disgrace to the whole district” was how Coun. C. H. Williams, Chairman...

Editorial – How Long?

2 September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 2nd 1944 How Long? Allied armies are now deploying on the battlefields of the last war.  Names rendered familiar by the swaying...

Youth’s Suicide Leap From Bridge – Story of Quarrel with Bolton Girl Friend

September 1944
South Yorkshire Times, September 2nd 1944 Doncaster Youth’s Suicide Leap From Bridge Story of Quarrel with Bolton Girl Friend Stated at a Goldthorpe inquest to have quarreled...

Editorial – France Rises Again

26 August 1944
South Yorkshire Times, August 26th 1944 France Rises Again This is France’s great week. Everywhere the grip of the German tyrants is being loosened.  On all...

Soldier – Rock, Keneth – Injured In Normandy

August 1944
South Yorkshire Times, August 26th 1944 Injured In Normandy Trooper Kenneth Rock R.A.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Rock, of 91, Furlong Road, joined the...

Marconigrams – August 26th, 1944

August 1944
South Yorkshire Times, August 26th, 1944 Marconigrams Among the prize-winning animals exhibited at Conisbrough Show on Saturday was a pig weighing 68 stones. Mineworkers at eight collieries...