South Yorkshire Times June 3, 1944

Two Thousand Voices

Wombwell Whitsun Sing

The Sunday Schools of Wombwell made the most of their annual festival on Monday. A procession estimated to contain 2,000 children marched through the streets to music played by the Salvation Army and Home Guard Bands, to assemble for the annual “Sing” in a field at the rear of the Empire Theatre.

There the new Sunday School Queen, Joyce Margaret Waters (13) of Wombwell Congregational Church was formally crowned by Mrs. G. H. Hinchcliffe. With the Queen were her four attendants, Helena Simpson (Cemetery Road Methodists), Maureen Barker (Park Street Methodists), Alice Clarkson (Lundhill Wesleyan Reform), and Joan Pearce (Wombwell Parish Church), along             with the ex-Queen, Connie Newham (Hough Lane Methodists).

Prayers were offered by Mr. A. Butroid (Wombwell Congregational Church), and an address was given by the Rev. E. G. Panton (Hough Lane Methodist),

The children of Wombwell Congregational Church paid a kindly gesture in halting at a window in King’s Road where sat one of their teachers, Miss Sarah Lloyd, who is recovering from a severe illness, and a fellow scholar, Margaret Illidge, who has recently undergone an operation.

The singing in the field was led by the Salvation Army Band, and the Home Guard Band gave a selection. Collections for Sunday School work were taken en route.