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The Hull Coal Trade – Returns for 1892

January 1893
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Friday 06 January 1893 The Hull Coal Trade The Returns for 1892 The j returns for December and for the all of last...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 27th, 1944 Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List Wednesday – Cyril Shuttleworth, Cross Lane, Farnley, Leeds, foreign body in eye. George Hampshire, (15),...

Editorial – Price of Peace

27 May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 27th 1944 Price of Peace Mr. Churchill’s opening of the debate on Foreign Affairs in the House of Commons on Wednesday, contained...

Wedding – Corton & Lowbridge

July 1970
South Yorkshire Times, Saturday, July 4th, 1970 Miss Linda Corton, of Allotts Crescent, Jump, and Mr. Kenneth Lowbridge, of Coronation Road, Hoyland, after their wedding at Jump...

Tailpiece – Infant Baptism

October 1960
South Yorkshire Times, October 1st, 1960 Tailpiece A Divinity student was asked if he believed in infant baptism. Gosh! yes!" he said, a little startled. "I've seen...

Title Bid

October 1960
South Yorkshire Times, October 1st 1960 Title Bid Miss Pamela Warren, one of the latest entrants in Wombwell Cricket Lovers' "Miss November" Beauty Competition to be held...

Romance of the Sunday School

October 1960
South Yorkshire Times, October 1st 1960 Romance of the Sunday School A romance which blossomed in the Young People’s Class at Barnsley Road Methodist Church at...

Marconigrams – May 27th, 1944

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 27th, 1944 Marconigrams Mexborough Comforts Fund hope to make £100 by their annual flag day this week-end. Mr. H. L. V. Evans of...

Marconigrams – May 20th, 1944

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 20th, 1944 Marconigrams A patient of the Montagu Hospital, Mexborough, who signs himself “A Man from Rawmarsh,” has sent to the Hospital...

Soldier – Watkins, James – Five Months “On The Run”

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 20th, 1944 Five Months “On The Run” Wombwell Man Caught by Germans After a wait of nine months, Mr. and Mrs. James Watkins,...

Marconigrams – May 20th, 1944

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 20th, 1944 Marconigrams Eighteen defendants from Wombwell, Blacker Hill, Darfield and Great Houghton were fined 7s 6d each at Barnsley on Monday...

Editorial – In Good Hands

20 May 1944
 South Yorkshire Times, May 20th, 1944 In Good Hands After a general lull in active land operations, fighting has again broken out in Italy.  This time...

Greyhounds – Station Road

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times May 5, 1944

Greyhounds – Hough Lane

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times May 5th, 1944

Airman – Chalmers, John – D.F.M. Winner

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 20th, 1944 D.F.M. Winner Here is a picture of Sergt. John Chalmers (23), of 40, Pitt Street, Low Valley, a Wireless Operator/Air...

Editorial – Labour at Loggerheads

13 May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 13th, 1944 Labour at Loggerheads The Labour Party could hardly have chosen a less appropriate time to stage a political squabble. Mr....

Soldier – Dyson R.D. – Home from Africa

July 1943
South Yorkshire Times, July 10, 1943 Home from Africa One of the first to return from the North African battle front to Wombwell is Corporal R....

Editorial – Neutrality

6 May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944 Neutrality Neutrality is not an absolute state. It has infinite variety.  The war has gone on long enough to demonstrate...

Airman – Cree, Edgar – Young Composer

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944 Young Composer Sergeant Pilot Edgar Cree, R.A.F., is still making great strides in the musical world and on Sunday evening...

Soldier – Stennett, James – Wombwell Man In Italy

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944 Wombwell Man In Italy March seems to be an unlucky month for Fusilier James Stennett (24), son of Mr. James...

Marconigrams – May 06th, 1944

May 1944
South Yorkshire Times, May 6th, 1944 Marconigrams Sgt. John Chalmers, R.A.F., of Low Valley has been awarded the D.F.M. for his part in bringing safely...

Editorial – Finance and the Future

29 April 1944
South Yorkshire Times April 29th 1944 Finance and the Future Sir John Anderson's Budget withheld the last straw. Our national economy is now so finely adjusted...

Editorial – Waiting for the Zero Hour

1 April 1944
South Yorkshire Times April 01st 1944 Waiting for the Zero Hour Waiting for zero hour is always apt to be a trying experience. It tests the...

Marconigrams – April 29th, 1944

April 1944
South Yorkshire Times, April 29th, 1944 Marconigrams Major Lloyd George, Minister of Fuel, welcoming in the House of Commons on Friday the new agreement on mineworkers’...

Cricket Prospects – Mitchell Main In Council Again

April 1944
South Yorkshire Times, April 29th, 1944 Cricket Prospects Mitchell Main In Council Again Mitchell Main, who have re-entered the Yorkshire Council after a lapse of five seasons...