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Marconigrams – Saturday 10 May 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 10 May 1924
Marconigrams
The glass trade at Conisbrough is reported to be improving.
Miners are due to receive this week...
United Methodist Free Church.
Barnsley Independent – Saturday 31 December 1870
United Methodist Free Church.
The opening services of the United Methodist Free Church, Kilnhurst, were continued on Sunday last,...
Theft by a Tramp.
Barnsley Independent – Saturday 25 June 1870
Theft by a Tramp.
At the Rotherham Police Court, on Monday last, John Blane, a tramp, was charged with...
. Singular Fatality At Kilnhurst.
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Thursday 20 January 1870
Singular Fatality At Kilnhurst.
Yesterday morning, considerable excitement was caused in Kilnhurst in consequence of Mr. Wm. Stores,...
Wedding – Bloxam & Read
South Yorkshire Times - Friday 01 January 1932
Wedding - Bloxam & Read
The wedding took place in the Kilnhurst Parish Church on Boxing Day of Mr....
Marriages & Deaths – 01 September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 1 September 1893
Marriages.
Goode—Bradley.—August 20, at the Register Office, Barnsley, James Albert Goode to Elizabeth Bradley, both of Darfield.
Johnson—Parkes.—August...
The Coal War – Ballotting on the Proposed Partial Resumption of Work.
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 29 September 1893
The Coal War.
Ballotting on the Proposed Partial Resumption of Work.
Everything Quiet, Soldiers and Police Leaving the...
Strange Suicide – Railway Labourer Cuts His Throat.
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 22 September 1893
Strange Suicide at Conisborough.
A Railway Labourer Cuts His Throat.
An inquest was held on Friday last at...
Distress in the District – Relief Works.
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 22 September 1893
Distress in the District
Relief Works.
CONISBOROUGH.
On Wednesday relief in the shape of soup and bread was distributed...
Meeting of Miners
Midland & Northern Coal & Iron Trades Gazette - Wednesday 17 August 1881
Meeting of Miners
On Monday evening a meeting of miners from Denaby Main,...
Stealing and Wilful Damage
York Herald - Monday 29 August 1881
West Riding Police
At the West Riding Police-court on Saturday, Martin Coyne, a lad residing at Mexbro’, for stealing...
Kilnhurst 73 for 5 Conisbro 65
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 19 August 1881
Kilnhurst v Conisbro'
Played at Conisbro on Saturday, and resulted in an easy victory for the visitors.
Conisbro’
Kilnhurst
Marshall
b...
1960 in Retrospect – Flash-Back on Items of News Interest
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 07 January 1961
1960 in Retrospect
Flash-Back on Items of News Interest in an Eventful Old Year
Do You Remember These?
January
Hundreds of...
Marconigrams – November 24th, 1933
South Yorkshire Times, November 24th, 1933
Marconigrams
A hundred thousand Americans bought wedding rings last year with cigarette coupons.
There are evening classes for brass bands now....
A “Terror”
South Yorkshire Times, November 3rd 1933
A “Terror”
“He’s the terror of Kilnhurst, he’s always fighting,” said a Kilnhurst boy, aged 15, in a case at...
Widespread Grief & Sympathy – Heavy & Unexpected Blow
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 09 February 1952
Widespread Evidence of Personal Grief and Sympathy
A Heavy and Unexpected Blow
South Yorkshire heard the news of the...
Editorial – “Happy Returns” – Hitler’s Birthday
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 24 April 1943
“Happy Returns”
Hitler’s birthday, always a portentous rather than a cheerful anniversary, was a more hollow affair...
Editorial – The Budget
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 17 April 1943
The Budget
The Budget, over whose secrets we were wont to tremble, caused barely a ripple on...
Editorial – Coming Events
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 10 April 1943
Coming Events
An unmistakable tendency for the fighting in North Africa to impinge more and more on the...
Editorial – View Halloo
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 03 April 1943
View Halloo
Though it is not by any means over yet, the Battle of Tunisia has been...
Marconigrams – Friday 27 April 1934
South Yorkshire Times - Friday 27 April 1934
Marconigrams
A Wayside Pulpit wisecrack: “The wages of sin have not been reduced.”
“I don’t blame the Press for...
Swinton Urban Council employees at Kilnhurst W.M.C.
South Yorkshire Times : Saturday, December 12th, 1970
Coun. Jack Haythorne (Chairman of Swinton urban council) and his wife, Marie, gave a buffet party for...
Fancy Dress Competition at Kilnhurst Church
South Yorkshire Times : Saturday, December 12th, 1970
Martin Davis dressed as a tramp in the Fancy Dress competition at Kilnhurst Church of England School...
Marconigrams – Saturday 16 February 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 16 February 1924
Marconigrams
Mr. G. H. Hirst, M.P., of Darfield, who has been ill, is recuperating at Bridlington.
No house...
Marconigrams – Saturday 19 January 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 19 January 1924
Marconigrams
A case of small-pox has been discovered at Goldthorpe and sent to Hoober Hospital.
The miners have...