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Babies Lucky Escape – Runaway Car at Wombwell

May 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 7, 1937 Babies Lucky Escape Runaway Car at Wombwell Woman Slightly Hurt An accident in which two women were slightly injured and a...

Carnival Winners

May 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 21, 1937 Carnival Winners The winning competitors in a fancy dress carnival held at Wombwell Bath last Thursday in connection with...

Crowning Achievement

May 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 14, 1937 Crowning Achievement Mrs H Hallsworth, wife of the Chairman of Wombwell Urban Council, crowns Wombwell’s Coronation Queen, Miss Lucy...

Golden Wedding – 30 Times at Blackpool

May 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 28, 1937 Golden Wedding Mr and Mrs William James Gawthorpe, of Highfield range, Darfield, will celebrate their golden wedding tomorrow, are...

In Queens Honour

May 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 21, 1937 In Queens Honour Miss Lucy Senior, Wombwell's Beauty Queen, distributing hankerchiefs and souvenir saucers to the children at an...

Land Won from Flood – Dearne Plan Puts River in Its Place

May 1937
Sheffield Independent May 1, 1937 Land Won from Flood Dearne Plan Puts River in Its Place God made the world, they say, but the Dutch made Holland. By...

Mitchell’s Down – Elsecar Triumph In Low Scoring Match

May 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 7, 1937 Mitchell’s Down Elsecar Triumph In Low Scoring Match On a bowlers wicket and handicapped through the absence of three or...

Roman Catholic Pageantry

May 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 14, 1937 Roman Catholic Pageantry The May Queen (Nancy Riley) and her attendants in the St Michael’s annual act of homage...

Tableau Queen Street, Wombwell

May 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 14, 1937 Not the “Madrid Front” but a tableau from Queen St, Wombwell. The Field Gun is a war souvenir.

Wedding – Pashley & Everatt

May 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 7, 1937 Miss Edith Pashley, Collingridge Rd, Wombwell and Mr George E Everatt, Aldham Lane, Wombwell