1940 Quarter 1
Highgate Stack Fire Burns Throughout Week-End
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 13 January 1940
Highgate Stack Fire Burns Throughout Week-End
The smouldering stacks and damaged barn at the Highgate farm fire.
A...
Mexboro’ and Dearne A.R.P. Workers Tackle “Paper” Incidents.
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 06 January 1940
“Leaflet" Raid With A Difference
Mexboro' and Dearne A.R.P. Workers Tackle "Paper" Incidents.
An A.R.P. control room...
Thurnscoe Man Ejected From Bus – ” Plenty Of Room For Me “
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 13 January 1940
" Plenty Of Room For Me "
Thurnscoe Man Ejected From Bus
"There is plenty of...
Nazi Air Force’s Busy Day – Planes Over British Coast
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...
Soldiers – Gundry Brothers – Proud Parents
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 06 January 1940
Proud Parents
Three Goldthorpe brothers are doing their bit in the Forces, and their parents. Mr....
Food Stall Gutted – Disastrous Fire at Goldthorpe
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 10 February 1940
Food Stall Gutted
Disastrous Fire at Goldthorpe
A View of the Gutted Shop
Considerable supplies of food were...
Soldier – Stuart – Old Golthorpe Scholar
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 17 February 1940
Service Snaps
Sergeant Instructor Charles Stuart, of 127, Furlong Road, Bolton, is an old Boltonian and has...
Soldier – Webster H. – Verses By The Boys
South Yorkshire Times, February 24, 1940
Verses By The Boys
Private H. Webster, formerly of Roman Terrace, Mexborough, and now of Doncaster Road, Goldthorpe, was called...
Soldier – Dennis E.– With B.E.F.
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 10 February 1940
Serving with the B.E.F. is Private E. Dennis, who joined up seventeen months ago.
Before joining up...