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Editorial – The Fourth Year

5 September 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 05 September 1942 The Fourth Year In those far-off days of the autumn of 1939, when the war was still a...

Editorial – A Cheerful War Review

12 September 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 12 September 1942 A Cheerful War Review With all the old mastery of phrase and a hint of new optimism...

Editorial – The Breathless Moment

19 September 1942
South Yorkshire Times, September 19, 1942 The Breathless Moment Never was time more heartily wished away than the sedate march of Autumn towards Winter. In Russia...

Editorial – The Need for Speed

26 September 1942
South Yorkshire Times, September 26, 1942 The Need for Speed At Stalingrad the struggle for dominance now seems to have become a Street by Street affair....

Boxer to the Rescue – Child Saved from the Canal at Wombwell

October 1942
South Yorkshire Times, October 3rd, 1942 Boxer to the Rescue Child Saved from the Canal at Wombwell Mr. Edward (“Ted”) Jones, ripper at Houghton Main, a well-known...

Warned “Pal” – Then Killed – Wombwell Street Accident

October 1942
Mexborough and Swinton Times, October 3rd, 1942 Warned “Pal” – Then Killed Wombwell Street Accident A suggestion that a sandbag buttress erected outside the women’s Labour Exchange...

Wombwell Pit Worker’s Gallantry

October 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 24 October 1942 Wombwell Pit Worker's Gallantry Thomas Benjamin Moore (46), colliery packer employed at Houghton Main, of 49. Copeland Road....

Advert – Zam Buk – On Feet Morn Till Night ?

October 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 17 October 1942 On Feet Morn Till Night  Quickly Relieved  By Zam-Buk Hard-worked mothers with all their own homework, and shopping to...

Zam Buk (advert)

October 1942
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 31 October 1942 Gives Feet a Good Start             You are dependent on your feet more than ever these days—and how...

Loss of a Good Workman – Inquest on Wath Collier

October 1942
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 03 October 1942 Loss of a Good Workman Inquest on Wath Collier While working at Wath Main Colliery on...