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Steel Props – Lightning Strike At Barnburgh – Order Disobeyed

January 1933
South Yorkshire Times, January 13th 1933 Steel Props Lightning Strike At Barnburgh Order Disobeyed An order to a squad of men to set steel props, in pursuance of...

Marconigrams – January 13th 1933

January 1933
South Yorkshire Times, January 13th, 1933 Marconigrams Thirty-six more payments and the war is ours. There are 300,000 unemployed youths this country to-day. I am not sure that...

Author of Seven Pantomimes

January 1933
South Yorkshire Times, January 13th, 1933 Author of Seven Pantomimes Picture to Follow Mr. Frank Rowlands, author of seven pantomimes performed by the children of the Parish...

Bolton Track Rider Fined

February 1933
South Yorkshire Times - Friday 03 February 1933 Bolton Track Rider Fined The well-known dirt track rider, George Wigfield, of Bolton on Dearne, was at Doncaster...

Montagu Hospital – Review Of 1933

March 1933
South Yorkshire Times, March 2nd, 1934 Montagu Hospital Review Of 1933 Busy And Expensive Year Annual Meeting Reflections The annual meeting of governors and subscribers of the Montagu Hospital...

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...

The Local Elections – Full Results

April 1933
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 07 April 1933 The Local Elections Little excitement, and less "feeling" than usual, were roused by the urban council elections...

Marconigrams – April 14th, 1933

April 1933
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 14 April 1933 Marconigrams. The Post Office made a profit of £10,500,000 last year. Lowliness is the foundation of loftiness."...

Game Trespass – Roosting Pheasants Bagged

April 1933
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 07 April 1933 Game Trespass Roosting Pheasants Bagged A young Bolton-on-Dearne miner, Leonard Mangham, appeared before the Doncaster magistrates...

Denaby Man’s Suicide – Grief for Wife “Nothing More To Live For”

April 1933
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 07 April 1933 Grief for Wife "Nothing More To Live For" Denaby Man's Suicide The Doncaster District Coroner (Mr....