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Better Times At Baker’s – Two Big Orders for Next Two Months.

May 1929
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 10, 1929 Better Times At Baker's Two Big Orders for Next Two Months. The prospects of work at John Baker's Kilnhurst works...

1929 General Election, May 30, 1929

May 1929
1929 General Election, May 30, 1929 Don Valley Division Tom Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh Born in Blackwell, Derbyshire, Williams grew up in Swinton in Yorkshire, and...

Coal Thefts at Kilnhurst – Serious State of Things.

May 1929
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 31st 1929 Coal Thefts at Kilnhurst Serious State of Things. When a twelve-year-old Kilnhurst boy was charged at Rotherham West Riding Juvenile...

Boy Drowned – Kilnhurst Child Who Slipped Into Canal.

June 1929
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 28, 1929 Boy Drowned. Kilnhurst Child Who Slipped Into Canal. While playing on the canal bank on Sunday evening near the Kilnhurst...

Kilnhurst Boy Found Drowned.

June 1929
Sheffield Independent - Tuesday 25 June 1929 Kilnhurst Boy Found Drowned. James License (6), son of Mr. Henry License, 67, South terrace, Kilnhurst, was found...

Unusual Case Settled –  Rotherham Works Accident Compensation Division.

June 1929
Sheffield Independent - Wednesday 05 June 1929 Unusual Case Settled.  Rotherham Works Accident Compensation Division. Described by counsel as being “somewhat, out the ordinary,’’ a Rotherham...

Baker-Bessemer

June 1929
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 28, 1929 Baker-Bessemer. If the proposed merger of John Baker and Company with Henry Bessemer and Company is effected, as there...

Bakers’ Enterprise Offer To Buy Bessemer’s – Production to be at Kilnhurst.

June 1929
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 28, 1929 Bakers' Enterprise Offer To Buy Bessemer's. Important Merger.             Production to be Concentrated at Kilnhurst. Details of an important "rationalisation" proposal are...

Insanitary Conditions in Kilnhurst

June 1929
Mexborough and Swinton Time June 7, 1929 Insanitary Conditions in Kilnhurst A Kilnhurst correspondent writes to draw attention to bad sanitary conditions in this village. "I notice,"...

Dog Drowned.

June 1929
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 28, 1929 Dog Drowned. Francis Shaw, boat-hauler, of Kilnhurst, summoned for allowing his dog to stray without the name and address...