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First Phase Jobs At G.E.C. For Women

May 1970
South Yorkshire Times, May 2nd , 1970 First phase expansion jobs at G.E.C. factory will be for women Mexborough area’s female school leavers and unemployed have...

Girls Out On Strike

May 1970
South Yorkshire Times, May 9th, 1970 Girls Out On Strike Police supervised a pick-up operation for about 400 girls who stayed at work on Wednesday after...

Pay Grouse Brings Pickets Out In Force

May 1970
South Yorkshire Times, May 9th, 1970 Pay Grouse Brings Pickets Out In Force Two Dearne area clothing factories were brought to a standstill on Tuesday following...

Strikers from the C.W.S. Factory

May 1970
South Yorkshire Times, May 9th, 1970 Strikers from the C.W.S. Factory, Carr Head Lane, Bolton, bask in the sunshine outside the works of Corah’s at...

Ministry Orders Smoke Ban On 500 Dearne Homes from Next Year

May 1970
South Yorkshire Times, May 30th, 1970 Ministry Orders Smoke Ban On 500 Dearne Homes from Next Year The Ministry of Housing and Local Government have confirmed...

Stepping Out on a Joint Campaign

May 1970
South Yorkshire Times, May 2nd, 1970 Stepping Out on a Joint Campaign Barnburgh couple, Mr.Stanley Sheard (70), and his wife, Elizabeth, of "Glenavon," Doncaster Road, will...

Cinema – Empire – Women in Love

May 1970
South Yorkshire Times, May 30, 1970

Goldthorpe Catholic May Procession

May 1970
South Yorkshire Times, May 9th, 1970 A group of choirboys preparing to lead Goldthorpe Catholic parish May procession on Sunday.

Goldthorpe Evergreens’ Choir,

May 1970
South Yorkshire Times, May 2nd, 1970 Mr. F. W. Cooper, conductor of Goldthorpe Evergreens’ Choir, with members of his choir at the Old Peoples Choir...

Dearne Agricultural Society’s Show Jumping

May 1970
South Yorkshire Times, May 16th, 1970 Debra Atkinson gets to know “Melanie” ridden by Richard Sanderson at the Dearne Agricultural Society’s show jumping on Sunday.