1941 Quarter 4
Cinemagoers Don Gas Masks – Fire at Goldthorpe
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 04 October 1941
Cinemagoers Don Gas Masks
Fire at Goldthorpe
Following an outbreak of fire at a Goldthorpe cinema...
Marconigrams – October 4th, 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 04 October 1941
Marconigrams
Mexborough Secondary School is to be known in future as Mexborough Grammar School.
The annual gathering of...
Playing Football
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 04 October 1941
Playing Football
Five Thurnscoe youths, Colin Morrell (18), shop assistant. David Fawcett (17). screen hand, Leslie Tansley...
Intrepid Legless Pilot (video)
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 04 October 1941
Intrepid Legless Pilot
Daring Bids for Freedom After two daring attempts to escape, Wing-Commander Douglas Bader...
Soldier – Rennard, Joe – Letter from Iceland
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 18 October 1941
Corporal Joe Rennard, of Goldthorpe, now serving in Iceland, has sent us the following letter:—
"Before the...
Editorial – Good News
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 04 October 1941
Good News
Mr. Churchill is finding it increasingly difficult to conceal good news from us. In...
Marconigrams – November 1st, 1941
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 01 November 1941
Marconigrams
An interim dividend of 2 per cent., as compared with 2 ½ per cent. last year,...
Editorial – Hitler v Roosevelt
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 01 November 1941
Hitler v Roosevelt
President Roosevelt's Navy Day speech was a declaration of undeclared war
"The shooting has started,"...
Editorial – Expert Thuggery at Pearl Harbour (video)
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 13 December 1941
Expert Thuggery at Pearl Harbour
To parody the familiar advertisement we thought the Hun was black until...