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Editorial – “Guilty, But Insane”

9 December 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 09 December 1939 "Guilty, But Insane" The Bolshevik invasion of Finland is a turning-point in the war and in...

Editorial – Alas, Poor Ghost!

16 December 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 16 December 1939 Alas, Poor Ghost! The intervention of the League of Nations in the Russo-Finnish dispute came as...

Editorial – Recipe for a Happy Christmas

23 December 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 23 December 1939 Recipe for a Happy Christmas Twenty-two years have rolled by and again we face a war...

Editorial – This Year of Fate

30 December 1939
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 30 December 1939 This Year of Fate And so draws to its close this year of fate, 1939, in...

Kilnhurst Drowning Tragedy – One Life Saved, One Lost

January 1940
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 6, 1940 Kilnhurst Drowning Tragedy Boys Fall Into Pond Desperate Rescue Attempts One Life Saved, One Lost Vain efforts by several...

Wedding – Windle & Ibbotson

January 1940
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 13 January 1940 The wedding took place at Kilnhurst Parish Church of Miss Miriam Windle, only daughter of Mr....

Airman – Thompson, Frank – Grateful Kilnhurst

January 1940
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 27, 1940 Grateful Kilnhurst The work of Swinton and Kilnhurst War Welfare Fund is not unappreciated by Kilnhurst members of H.M....

Nazi Air Force’s Busy Day – Planes Over British Coast

January 1940
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 13 January 1940 Nazi Air Force's Busy Day             Planes Over British Coast Soon Driven Off : No Bombs Dropped Italian Volunteers...

Soldier – King J.B. – Ambulance Enthusiast

January 1940
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 13 January 1940 Ambulance Enthusiast Gunner J. B. King, of 14, Springfield Road, Kilnhurst, son of Mr. and Mrs. G....

Soldier – Atkinson, Edgar William – Letters Gone Astray?

January 1940
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 20, 1940 Letters Gone Astray? Private Edgar William Atkinson, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Atkinson, who...