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Sick Woman in Locked House – Tragic Sequel to Kilnhurst Find

October 1949
Mexborough & Swinton Times, October 29, 1949 Sick Woman in Locked House Tragic Sequel to Kilnhurst Find Residents in Beighton Road, Kilnhurst, were accustomed to seeing their...

Radio Set for Doctor

October 1949
South Yorkshire Times, October 8, 1949 Listening in to the radio set presented by Mrs. B. Jones to Dr. C. J. H. Aitken, on behalf...

£4 Million Coal Mine Scheme for Yorkshire

October 1949
Yorkshire Evening Post - Friday 21 October 1949 £4 Million Coal Mine Scheme for Yorkshire A £4,000,000 scheme for concentrating Manvers Main, Wath Main, Kilnhurst...

Miners to fight £4,000,000 concentration plan

October 1949
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 24 October 1949 Miners to fight £4,000,000 concentration plan N.U.M. leader condemns "grandiose scheme" Miners employed at Wath...

Vast Yorkshire Pit Plan Ready

October 1949
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Friday 21 October 1949 Vast Yorkshire Pit Plan Ready A £4,000,000 scheme designed to increase coal output by...

Kilnhurst Operatic Society

October 1949
Mexborough & Swinton Times, October 8, 1949 Kilnhurst Operatic Society Charming couple are Jill Whittaker and Mary Bamford, all ready  for their "Lavender Blue" act in...

Round Your Way – Kilnhurst

October 1949
South Yorkshire Times September 10, 1949 Round Your Way - Kilnhurst Kilnhurst – looking across the railway line to the colliery Kilnhurst, once near-neighbour to Swinton, is...

Water Below – Traffic Above

October 1949
South Yorkshire Times, October 15, 1949 Water Below – Traffic Above In this shot workmen are re-painting the eleven years old bridge over the Don at...

Kilnhurst Colliery, Doncaster League Division I Champions

October 1949
Mexborough & Swinton Times, October 22, 1949 Kilnhurst Colliery, Doncaster League Division I champions for 1919. From left to right are: Back row:  A. Dobbs (scorer),...

Kilnhurst’s Successful Team

October 1949
Mexborough & Swinton Times, October 29, 1949 Caps and cups night on Saturday for Kilnhurst's successful team, pictured here on the stage of Kilnhurst W.M.C.,...