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Barnburgh Heat Complaint
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 15 March 1952
Barnburgh Heat Complaint
Three Faces on Strike
A dispute which affected three faces in the Barnsley and Parkgate Seams...
Dispute Cut No. 3 Output
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 8 March 1952
Dispute Cut No. 3 Output
The five-day dispute at Kilnhurst Colliery affected output in No. 3 Area of...
Strike Hit No. 3 Output
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 1 March 1952
Strike Hit No. 3 Output
A two-day dispute in the Silkstone Seam at Manvers Main Colliery affected Area...
Editorial – The Merry Month
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 29 May 1943
The Merry Month
The merry month becomes more and more of a mockery for the Axis as the...
Editorial – Taken at the Flood
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 22 May 1943
Taken at the Flood
Mr. Churchill's Congress speech on Wednesday, while subject to the obvious limitations of the...
Editorial – Now For It
South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 15 May 1943
Now For It
Whatever hopes the Germans had of making a Sebastopol of Bizerta or a Bataan of...
Editorial – Shadows Of Strife
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 08 May 1943
Shadows Of Strife
To those of us who have often looked askance at the sheer blatancy of German...
Editorial – Frightfulness
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday 01 May 1943
Frightfulness
Primitive morality has long been a special attribute of the Axis powers, war reeks with examples of...
Events of 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'...
Fancy Dress 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 31 May 1924
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 31 May 1924
Marconigrams
A "Mayor's Parlour" has been provided at Wombwell Town Hall.
The "Hospital Sunday" season opens next Sunday...
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....