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Marconigrams – November 10th, 1933

10 November 1933
South Yorkshire Times, November 10th, 1933 Marconigrams The next Wath Rural Deanery Choirs Festival will be held in 1935. Get ready to join our great knitting contest....

Events of 1933

December 1933
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 29 December 1933 Events of 1933 January 18—County Council fixed new scale of public assistance which caused widespread protests, several guardians'...

Marconigrams – Friday 15 December 1933

December 1933
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 15 December 1933 Marconigrams Tuesday was the 67th anniversary of the Oaks Colliery Disaster. A Boots for Bairns appeal was read...

Misadventure – Wombwell Man’s Fate – Found On Line

January 1934
South Yorkshire Times, January 26th, 1934 Misadventure Wombwell Man’s Fate Found On Line The discovery of the body of a man lying on the L.M.S. railway near a...

Sad End – Mexborough Man’s Discovery

January 1934
South Yorkshire Times, January 19th 1934 Sad End Mexborough Man's Discovery A tragic discovery was made on the L.N E. railway between Wath and Wombwell...

Golden Wedding – Mr. and Mrs. Amos Swift – “Poor but Proud”

January 1934
South Yorkshire Times, January 5th, 1934 Golden Wedding Mr. and Mrs. Amos Swift “Poor but Proud” “Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so...

Obituary – Mr. Geo. William Hartley

January 1934
South Yorkshire Times, January 5th, 1934 Mr. Geo. William Hartley, an old Wombwell resident, died at 148 Houghton Lane, Wombwell on Monday, at the age...

Obituary – Owen Pascoe

January 1934
South Yorkshire Times, January 19th, 1934 Obituary. Owen Pascoe Said to be the youngest Sergeant in the British Army in the early days of the war, Mr....

Obitury – Thomas Wood

January 1934
South Yorkshire Times, January 19th 1934 Thomas Wood A stalwart of Methodism for over fifty years, Mr. Thomas Wood (72), 32 Houghton Road, Thurnscoe, died at...

Assistant Town Clerk of Gillingham

January 1934
South Yorkshire Times, January 5th, 1934 Assistant Town Clerk of Gillingham Mr. Reginald Hill, only son of Mrs. Hill, 202 Barnsley Road, Wombwell and the late...