Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 04 January 1941

Mr WH Bailey (Goldthorpe) and Miss M Overend (Nottingham)

Miss Marguerite Overend, youngest daughter of Mrs Overend in the late Mr H Overend, of Nottingham and Mr Walter Hibberd Bailey, only son of Coun. and Mrs. A. Bailey, .of 4, Homecroft Road, Goldthorpe, were married at Goldthorpe Parish Church,  the Rev. F. W. Marshall officiating.

The service was choral, Mr. W. Hurrell being organist. Given away by her brother, Mr. A. Overend, the bride wore a gown of white velvet cut on princess lines, a veil of white net, embroidered with lilies and a wreath of Madonna lilies. Her bouquet was of lilies and white heather. The bridesmaids. Miss E. Roebuck, of Ryecroft Rawmarsh, and Miss E. Brooke, of Goldthorpe, wore dresses of azure blue velvet with turbans and shoes to tone, and carried pink chrysanthemums.

The bridegroom’s gifts to the bridesmaids were gold identification bracelets. The best man was Mr. E. Shaw and the groomsman Mr. C. Senior’. The bride’s mother wore a black coat with wine coloured accessories and the bridegroom’s mother, a grey dress, trimmed with shell pink. Both wore sprays of pink roses.

After a reception in Goldthorpe Church Hall, the couple left for Nottingham, where the honeymoon is to be spent, the bride travelling in a navy blue coat with accessories to tone Among gifts received were fish servers from the staff at Goldthorpe Junior Boys’ School and an oak biscuit barrel from members of Goldthorpe and Hickleton Cricket and Tennis Club.