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Editorial – Well Begun

17 June 1944
South Yorkshire Times June 10, 1944 Well Begun At long last conjecture has given place to reality. The contact between Germany and the Allies broken off...

Editorial – Secret Weapons

24 June 1944
South Yorkshire Times, June 24, 1944 Secret Weapons Reprisals for allied bombing attacks on Germany have been long promised. This was one of the hopes used...

Advert – Kilnhurst Co-op –

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 8 1944

Backing up Second Front – Record Output at Kilnhurst Works

July 1944
South Yorkshire Timmes, July 1st 1944 Members Of The First Unit Of Women Forge Workers At The Kilnhurst Works Of Baker And Bessemer Ltd. Three years...

New Dearne Councillor is Youngest Member

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 15th, 1944 New Dearne Councillor Is Youngest Member The new member appointed at last week’s meeting of the Dearne Urban Council to succeed...

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 22nd 1944 Marconigrams Brampton Hospital Gala on Saturday realised £230 for the Mexborough Montagu and Barnsley Beckett Hospitals. A speaker on “Re-organisation of...

South Yorkshire Welcomes London Evacuees

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 15th 1944 Billeting Arrangements Work Well South Yorkshire Welcomes London Evacuees Evacuees, mothers with small children and school children, have this week been...

Kilnhurst and Mexborough Men’s “Clocking” Offence

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 15th 1944 Kilnhurst and Mexborough Men’s “Clocking” Offence Joseph Turton (30), saw operator, of 65, Springfield Road, Kilnhurst, and William T. Howitt,...

Soldier – Blunn, Arthur – Wounded In Normandy

July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 22nd, 1944 Wounded In Normandy Mrs. Blunn, of 43, Wheatley Road, Kilnhurst, has received a letter from her husband Bdr. Arthur Blunn,...

Editorial – Shadow of Defeat

1 July 1944
South Yorkshire Times, July 1st 1944 Shadow of Defeat With the fall of Cherbourg things really begin to look bad for the Germans.  Having got our...