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Bus Turns Turtle – Twenty Miners Penned In (picture)

February 1928
Sheffield Independent February 14 1928 Bus Turns Turtle Twenty Miners Penned In About 20 men were returning from work at the Houghton Main Colliery in a motor...

Husband’s Grief – Suicide Follows Bereavement.

February 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 3, 1928 Husband's Grief. Suicide Follows Bereavement. A tragic story of a husband's grief form a dead wife was unfolded at an...

Nasty Smash -Miners Bus Overturned at Darfield Cross Roads.

February 1928
Mexborough & Swinton Times, February 17, 1928 Nasty Smash. Miners Bus Overturned at Darfield Cross Roads. A Motor-'bus in which about 20 miners were riding' from Houghton...

Wombwell Woman’s Fall.

February 1928
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 21 February 1928 Wombwell Woman’s Fall. An inquest was held at Wombwell yesterday on Sarah Ann (77), widow, of 145, Blythe...

Netherwood Hall

February 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 24, 1928 Netherwood Hall Offered To Wombwell U. D. C. Possible Isolation Hospital A Handsome Old Mansion. Important possibilities are foreshadowed in the...

Memories of the Lundhill Explosion – Old Lady’s Vivid Recollection.

February 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 17, 1928 Memories of the Lundhill Explosion A Ghastly Scene. Old Lady's Vivid Recollection. Mrs. Elizabeth Ashton, of Counting Houses, West Melton Fields,...

Church Lads’ Brigade

February 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 24, 1928 Church Lads' Brigade Major C. W. Tabor of the Wombwell company of the Church Lads' Brigade, placing a wreath...

The Bishop’s Cloak.

February 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 24, 1928 The Bishop's Cloak. The Bishop of Sheffield received last Sunday from the Church Lads' Brigade of the Sheffield diocese...

Wright s Crescent – ” When Roads Are Foul And Miry.”

February 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 10, 1928 " When Roads Are Foul And Miry." Wright s Crescent, Wombwell, where every prospect pleases, except that the roads...

Wombwell Thespians – “Robina in Search of a Husband.”

February 1928
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 10, 1928 Another new society is the Wombwell Thespians, who are to make their debut nest Wednesday and Thursday with...