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Curios Found in Gas Meters

January 1939

Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Friday 13 January 1939 Curios Found in Gas Meters The number of strange things used in the Wath, Thurnscoe and Bolton...

Death of Mother Kept From Son

January 1939

Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Thursday 26 January 1939 Death of Mother Kept From Son While doctors and nurses are fighting to save his life, every...

Flood Menace Getting Worse – Watch On Roads

January 1939

Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 16 January 1939 Flood Menace Getting Worse Late last night the flood menace at Bolton-on-Dearne, where the river Dearne overflowed its...

Floods Might Have Been Worse – Agricultural Land Mainly Affected

January 1939

Mexborough and Swinton Times January 20, 1939 Floods in South Yorkshire Might Have Been Worse Agricultural Land Mainly Affected Don Bursts Its Banks Melting snow in the higher...

Snow, Ice, Fog and Floods in South Yorkshire

January 1939

Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 03 January 1939 Winter Again Cuts Off Northern Villages Flooding Threat in Sheffield Area Blizzards swept the North of England...

Bolton Junior For “Wolves”

2 January 1939

Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Monday 02 January 1939 Bolton Junior For “Wolves” Donald Walker, of Bolton-on-Dearne schoolboy football international, who was 15 years of age...

Eight Injured In Crash – Cars in Collision Near Doncaster

February 1939

Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph - Monday 13 February 1939 Eight Injured In Crash Cars in Collision Near Doncaster Eight people were injured when two cars collided...

Wedding – Fernehough & Whitham

February 1939

Mexborough and Swinton Times February 3, 1939 Miss and Fernehough, 54 Gladstone Terrace, Darfield and Mr James Fisher Whitham, of Kent.

A.R.P. Makes Her Queen

February 1939

Daily Mirror - Monday 20 February 1939 A.R.P. Makes Her Queen Miss Jennie Dawson, aged seventeen, daughter of a retired miner, of Mexborough-road, Bolton -...

Dearne Operatic Society’s “The Vagabond King” – Powerful Singing and Acting

February 1939

Mexborough and Swinton Times February 17, 1939 Daring Choice Dearne Operatic Society's Spectacular Show Success Of "The Vagabond King" Powerful Singing and Acting Since 1931 the Dearne District...