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Fight To Finish Palpitations At Hampden Road

South Yorkshire Times, July 14th 1933 Fight To Finish Palpitations At Hampden Road Only Six In It Mexboro' and Brampton gave us the cream of the...

Art Of Canary Breeding – Lesson From A Wombwell Master – A Delightful Hobby...

South Yorkshire Times, July 21st 1933 Art Of Canary Breeding Lesson From A Wombwell Master A Delightful Hobby Vanitas Vanitatum This is about canaries. In an upper room...

Wedding: Dyson & Woolcott

South Yorkshire Times, August 11th 1933 Wombwell Wedding: Dyson & Woolcott The wedding took place at Wombwell Parish Church on Saturday of Miss Elizabeth Woolcott, daughter...

Wedding – Brogan & Chappell

August 1933
South Yorkshire Times, August 11th 1933 Wedding: Chappell & Brogan Nuptial mass was celebrated at the wedding at St. Michael's (R.C.) Church, Wombwell, on Monday, of...

Leaving Wombwell

August 1933
South Yorkshire Times, August 11th 1933 Leaving Wombwell WombweII is shortly to lose one of its most successful gardeners. Mr. Benjamin Meredith, of 87, Roebuck Street,...

Marconigrams – March 16th, 1934

March 1934
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 16 March 1934 Marconigrams. Mr C. P. Finn, M.Sc., manager of the Manvers Main Colliery coke-oven and by-product plant....

Police Court Briefs

March 1934
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 16 March 1934 Police Court Briefs Arthur Ward. haulage hand, Wombwell, was fined 5s. at Barnsley on Wednesday for...

Wombwell Main Cricket Club A.G.M.

March 1934
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 16 March 1934 Wombwell Main Cricket Club A.G.M. At the annual meeting of the Wombwell Main club last week-end a...

Fall From Cycle – Wombwell Man’s Fatal Faint – A “Character”

May 2933
South Yorkshire Times, May 5th 1933 Fall From Cycle Wombwell Man’s Fatal Faint A “Character” George Graham (62), 298, Houghton Lane, Wombwell, died last Friday morning. The previous...

Wedding – Taylor & Temperton

August 1933
South Yorkshire Times, August 11th 1933 Wedding: Temperton & Taylor The wedding took place at Thurnscoe Parish Church on Saturday of Miss Ada Taylor, second daughter...

Girl Died After Caravan Blaze

September 1970
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 05 September 1970 Girl Died After Caravan Blaze A Five months old girl died in Mexborough Montagu Hospital last Saturday...

Signed for Derry City

11 August 1933
South Yorkshire Times, August 11th 1933 Signed for Derry City Among Barnsley's captures last season was Ashley Hobson, from Wombwell, who had had experience with Norwich...

Victory Bowls Tournament

August 1933
South Yorkshire Times, August 11th 1933 Victory Bowls Tournament The eight prize-winners at the Bank Holiday Victory Bowls Tournament organised annually by the games committee of...

An “All-Star” Cast for Swinton

18 August 1933
South Yorkshire Times, August 18th 1933 An “All-Star” Cast for Swinton The cream of local cricket in the match at Swinton on Tuesday arranged by Mr....

Night Crash At Wombwell – Man And Dog Killed

August 1933
South Yorkshire Times, August 18th 1933 "Pom" To Blame Night Crash At Wombwell Man And Dog Killed An accident in Wood Walk, Wombwell, the night of...

Dyson – Wheelers’ Wedding

August 1933
South Yorkshire Times, August 18th 1933 Wheelers’ Wedding Members of the Wombwell Wheelers’ Club offer novel greetings to their colleagues, Mr. and Mrs Lawrence Dyson, after...

Obituary – Arthur Longley

August 1933
South Yorkshire Times, August 18th 1933 Arthur Longley Mr. Arthur Longley (85), formerly relieving officer at Wombwell. died on Saturday, leaving a widow aged 81. His...

Wombwell Boy’s Holiday In Rhineland

August 1933
South Yorkshire Times, August 11th 1933 Out Goes Peter Wombwell Boy’s Holiday In Rhineland Lone Traveller At 11 Peter is a Wombwell boy of eleven. At present he...

Wedding – Sharp & Chester

August 1933
South Yorkshire Times, August 18th 1933 Chester & Sharp A leading member of the Mexborough Rovers Scout troop was married at Wombwell Parish Church on Saturday....

Obituary – Isaac (“Ike”) Bedford

July 1933
South Yorkshire Times, July 21st 1933 Obituary - Isaac ("Ike") Bedford Mr. Isaac ("Ike") Bedford (58). 9. Cemetery Road. Wombwell, trainer to the Wombwell Football Club,...

Obituary – Mr. Walter Coulsey Hill

July 1933
South Yorkshire Times, July 21st 1933 Obituary - Mr. Walter Coulsey Hill The death has occurred of Mr. Walter Coulsey Hill (47), 164, Hough Lane. Wombwell,...

Mr. T. M. Thornsby – Leading South Yorkshire Club Official

July 1933
South Yorkshire Times, July 21st 1933 Mr. T. M. Thornsby Leading South Yorkshire Club Official Wombwell lost a prominent townsman on Wednesday by the death of...

Tennis “Champs”

July 1933
South Yorkshire Times, July 28th 1933 Tennis “Champs” Left and right: S. C. Hacking and Mrs. Swinburn, winners of the open singles at the Mexborough Association...

The Invincibles

July 1933
South Yorkshire Times, 28th July 1933 The Invincibles The Wombwell Park ladies’ tennis team who have won the championship of the Mexborough League, going through the...

Brampton 249 Wath 213 – Better Brampton – Another Shock For Wath

28 July 1933
South Yorkshire Times, July 28th 1933 Better Brampton Another Shock For Wath Brampton caused one of Saturday's surprises by defeating Wath. The match, which yielded 462...