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Bedroom Full of Fumes – Bakery Flue Backdraft? – Early Morning Alarm

January 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 27, 1939 Bedroom Full of Fumes Bakery Flue Backdraft? Early Morning Alarm Two Goldthorpe sisters had remarkable escapes from death in the early...

Special Constables.

January 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 13, 1939 Special Constables. Members of the Goldthorpe Section of the West Riding Special Constabulary learned with pleasure at the week-end...

Goldthorpe Motorist Cleared

January 1939
Leeds Mercury - Thursday 12 January 1939 Goldthorpe Motorist Cleared George Edward Wigfield of Barnsley Road, Goldthorpe, near Rotherham, successfully appealed against a conviction for...

Threw Knife at Dog – Goldthorpe Butcher to Pay Costs

January 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times January 27, 2019 Threw Knife at Dog Goldthorpe Butcher to Pay Costs An admission that he threw a knife and injured a dog,...

Cyclists Pay Tribute To Pioneer Member of Goldthorpe Club

January 1939
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 03 January 1939 Cyclists Pay Tribute To Pioneer Member of Goldthorpe Club A two minutes silence in remembrance of Mr....

Wedding – Smith & Burns

February 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times 24th 1939 Miss Elsie Smith, 80, Main Street, Goldthorpe and Mr Harold Burton, 40 Washington Rd, Goldthorpe at Goldthorpe Parish Church

Highgate Youth Killed At Hickleton – Damaged Tub Brings Down Roof

February 1939
South Yorkshire Times, February 3, 1939 Highgate Youth Killed At Hickleton Damaged Tub Brings Down Roof Should Not Have Been Coupled To Run An opinion that all tubs...

A.R.P. Social Club Committee

February 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 24th 1939 Goldthorpe A.R.P. Social club committee who successfully raised a dance on Friday which in local A.R.P. Queen was...

First A.R.P. Queen – Goldthorpe Leads the Way

February 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 24th 1939 First A.R.P. Queen. Goldthorpe Leads the Way Miss Jenny Dawson (holding bouquet), chosen A.R.P. Queen for the Goldthorpe district on...

Goldthorpe Catholic Guild

February 1939
Mexborough and Swinton Times February 24th 1939 Members of the Goldthorpe Catholic Guild and friends at a social in the Catholic Hall on Monday. Father T....