January
Contents:
Barnsley Road School Christmas Party
Children’s Treat from Ship Croft
First prize in National Scripture Examination
Frank Collindridge on Russia
Mammoth Christmas Party at Wombwell – 1,000 Children
Partnerships for 50 Years
Roy Tate and his “Spice Birds”
Weddings (8)
Wombwell Amateur Operatic Society – Goodnight Vienna
Death of Principal Male of Operatic Society
Wombwell’s Coronation Queen
February
Contents:
Ambulance Convivial
Good Night Vienna for Jack Guest
Weddings (5)
Wombwell Congregational Church
March
Contents:
Cheery Man Missing – Wombwell Main Woman’s Search
CLB Promotion
New Curate
Rescued Child
Their Own Work
Traders Meet
Veteran Wombwell Choirister
Weddings (2)
Wombwell British Legion Annual Dinner
Wombwell Thespians Play – “My Wife’s Family.”
Wombwell Wedding
April
Contents:
Broken Melody – Man Killed at Mitchells
Coal Gas Contract
Fashionable Wedding – Prominent Families
Fashionable Wedding – Bridesmaids
May Queen
New Chairman of Wombwell U.D.C
Notable Recruits to Mitchell Main C.C.
Old Servant Honoured at Wombwell Main
On the Spot – New Church
Wombwell Double – Parkhill Sports Win Nelson Cup
Wombwell’s “Queen of Beauty”
Wombwell’s Coronation Beauty Queen Attendants
May
Contents:
Babies Lucky Escape – Runaway Car
Carnival Winners
Crowning Achievement
Fall Down Shaft
Golden Wedding – 30 Times at Blackpool
In Queens Honour
Land Won from Flood
Mitchell’s Down – Elsecar Triumph
Roman Catholic Pageantry
Tableau Queen Street, Wombwell
Wedding
Wombwell’s Oldest Inhabitant
Wright’s Amusements
June
Contents:
Long Service for Brampton Organist
Brampton Gala
– Guess the Weight
– Obstacle Race
Brampton School Play
Roman Catholic Stalwart Passes Away
United Methodist Jubilee at Wombwell
Wedding
– Copley & Smith
– Cresswell & Hirst
– Kendall & Hardwick
– Rowley & Hartley
– Smith & Barnes
July
Contents
People
Child Drowned Two Days Later
Anniversary Nearly Overlooked
Four Generations at Wombwell
New Magistrate Honoured
The House that Martin Built
Wedding – Burrows & Harvey
Wedding – Taylor & Beaumont
History
How Wombwell Has Grown – 1877
Personalities in Wombwell History
John Robinson J.P.
Rev George Hadfield
Charles Henry Elliott J.P.
William Washington
Percy Milnes Walker
Edward Tune J.P.
George Snell
Roy Kilner
Commercial
“Crying” The Nine
Art of Window Dressing
Churches and Chapels
Active At 93 – “Love Feast”
Rev. Leaving Wombwell
New Stained Glass Window
Memorial Screen Gift
Rector of Wombwell’s Son
Other
Headmasters Meet
Kings Road Player County Honours
Wombwell Tennis Tourney
August
Contents
Residents
Dignity and Impudence
Old Folks Treat – Party for 800 at Wombwell
Unusual Friendship
Unexplained Wath Mishap – Derailed Wagons – Shunter Killed
Weddings
Mower & Potts – Wilkes & Siddons
Thornton & Ward – Shelton & Hopkinson
Mearns & Pickard
Children
Lucky Boys
Mitchell & Darfield Children’s Sports
Church
Rev A.J. Wright Dies in Canada
New Congregational Church – First Sod
Parting Gift
Sport
Brampton beat Elsecar
Optimists All – Fishing Match
September
Contents
“She saved my Life”
Sarah Cooling
In Shanghai –Cable Calms Family
Tames Savage Dogs
Man’s Collapse In Essex
Weddings
– Belshaw & Beetonson
– Beevers & Hazard
– Farmer & Oxley
– Chipchase & Temple
– Bird & Millington
New Landmark at Mitchell’s Main
Civic Heads of Other Days
“I am Hodder”
British Legion Rally
“Good Companions”
Pretty Spectacle at School.
Alarming Happenings
October
Contents:
Bus Driver Not Called At Inquest
Prize Rabbit
William Rowbottom
Railway Romance
Mothers Meet at Wombwell
Headmaster’s Move to Dalton
Thirty Years’Caretaking – Retiring’ Gifts
Wombwell Sweepstake Fraud
Bowlers After Dark
Young Swimmers at Gala’s
Weddings
Dyson & Plowright – Bailey & Smith
Ibbitson & Battye – Wardle & Durkin
November
Contents:
Van Crash – No One Injured
Obituary –Prominent Tradesman
Fine Feathers – Foreign Birds
New Water Board President
Sisters To Broadcast
Miss Jessie Kilner sails to Marry
Wedding – Middleton & Wadsworth
Pit Death Mystery Boy
– Crushed by Rock
Mitchell Main Loss
– Sudden Death of Old Servant
Dearne Drainage
C.L.B. Old Comrades.
Coke-Oven Managers’ Association Chairman
New Church For Old Wombwell
– Congregationalist Effort
Stone Laying Ceremony.
December
Contents:
Driver’s Narrow Escape
Wombwell Blaze
Wombwell Girl’s Escape
Cricket Ground Under Water
“Plough boy” of 73
Can You Do It? Steady Hand & Nerve Needed
Hoyland & Wombwell Families United
-Miss D M Hall & Mr J P Charlesworth
Weddings
– Cottingham & Clarkson
– Stubbs & Crossley
– Shuttleworth & Jepson
– Sayles & Button
– Harte & McTigue
New Manager at Wombwell Main
Obituary – Former Mine Official
Joining Up With Jump and Hoyland
Curate to be Ordained Priest
Flooded Land
Mural Decoration
New Congregational Church
Wombwell Empire Change
Novel Ornaments at King’s Road
Home Made Instruments