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October 31st 2023 – 5,783 Articles now on the Site !!!

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Pictures and Stories from 1970

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Pictures and Stories from 1960


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Pictures and Stories from 1951


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Pictures & Articles from 1932

April 1932

Contents:
Mexboro’ Man Killed At Denaby
– Struck By Girder- Back Broken
“Times Walk
– Children Cheering
– Local Prominent
– Start of Men’s Event
A Heavy Judgement
Advert – Quick Press Ltd
Adverts – Whatley & Kingston Beeson
Cinemas – Majestic & Empire – Bad Girl
Waiter Fined – Drew Dole While Working
Council Chairman – James Guest
Councillor – Archibold Fouchard
Councillor – G. Goodacre
Councillor – J.H. White
Election Address – J Guest
Election Address – Jack Harry White
French Teachers in Mexborough
Impressions Of Mexboro’ and School
– Where Do We Find The Money?
Marconigrams – April 8th, 1932
Marconigrams – April 22nd, 1932
Marconigrams – April 29th, 1932
Mr. Woffinden – Mexboro’ Worthy
– Barge Boy’s Romantic Career
Rink Hockey
– Olympia’s Successful Week-End
Running For Daddy
Superannuated “Stanney”
Title Bout For Crossley?
– Mexboro’ Man Confident
Wedding – Comer & Beckett
Mexborough Ath 3  Grimsby Town Res 4
Mexborough Ath 3  Newark Town  0
– Forward’s Hat Trick”
Mexborough Ath  2  Bradford City Res 3
– Beaten on the Post by Bradford City
Grantham Town 2  Mexborough Ath 7
– Annables’ First ” Hat Trick”
Barnsley Reserves  3  Mexborough  Ath  0
Grantham  2  Mexborough  7
– Mexborough in Merry Mood
Grimsby Town Re 4  Mexborough Ath 1
Lincoln City Res 5 Mexborough Ath 3
Midland League Football
– Mexboro’s Withdrawal
More Financial Support Wanted.

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August 1932

Contents:
Cross Roads Crash:
– A Well-Known Tradesman Killed
– The Mexborough Car
– The Victims
Fall from Bridge
– Boy Killed on Railway
– Shocking Injuries
Five Generations
– A Roman Terrace Patriarch
– Perfectly Fit at 91
One Man to Another
Vegetable Garden Prizewinner
Weddings :
– Brady & Snow
– Cliff & Prytherch
– Sunday School Worker
– Cowles & Thompson
– Green & Guest
– Sykes & Burke
Children’s Portrait Gallery
High Diving
Dearne Valley Scythestones
” Army ” Officers in the Making
Cinemas – Empire, Majestic & Oxford
– Men in her Life

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Pictures and Articles from 1970

 April 1970

Contents:
It’s “Fab” in Malta – Says Girl Singer
St George’s Day Service
Weddings:
– Brammer & Robert
– Dunstan & Bailey
– Harrison & Ford
– Hooley & Caddick
– Pattenden & Oliver
– Potts & Cooper
– Rudge & Sherwood
– Wood & Pyatt
– Harrison & Mower
– Vickers & Benfell
– Wragg & Bedford
Blackpool Junior Dance Winners
Mexborough Area Youth Project 1970
Billy Smart’s Circus – Smartie
British Co-operative Society Ltd
– 50 Years’ Service
Merryweather & Corbett (advert)
Mexborough – Map of Central
Mexborough New Relief Road – Means New Shopping Pattern
Mexborough Shopping:
– Brendes – Sheila’s & Partridges
– H. Crosby & Co
– Petit’s
– Rebecca
– Websters
– Youngs & Sawyers
Presentation at Greville & Stuart
Fire Service Appointment
Technical College – “Iron” Hague fight,
Alma Weaver School of Dancing
Alma Weaver School of Dancing
Good Friday Cross
Health Secretary visits Montagu
Mexborough’s Longest Married Couple
Proud Girl at a Banquet
Doncaster Road Junior School Retirement
Doncaster Road School Traffic Census
Mexborough Area Floods:
– Biggest April Shower For 26 Years!
– Pictures
“Iron Hague” Exhibition
“The Life and Fights of ‘Iron’ Hague.”
Harry Carpenter to Commentate on ‘Iron’ Play
Challenge Cup Final
– Denaby United 4, Main St. W.M.C. 4
Mexborough Challenge Cup Final Mascots
Mexborough Main Street W.M.C. Team
Another Fight For Hague
… Boost For Culture
Yorkshire League Table
– April 25th, 1970

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Pictures and Stories from 1942

 April 1942

Contents:
Golden Wedding
– Manvers Main Pensioner Feted
– Mr & Mrs Walton
Weddings:
– Cawood & Smith
– Chappell & Brookes
– Hope & Potts
– Meakin & Robinson – Meakin & Hunt
Runaway Tub – Mineworker Fatally Injured
Editor of the ” South Yorkshire Times “
Cinema – Empire – Gang Show (video)
Cinemas – Empire, Majestic & Oxford
– Something to Sing About
Gloops Hospital Cottage Fund Cheque
Marconigrams :
– April 4th, 1942
– April 11th, 1942
– April 18th, 1942
– April 25th, 1942
Mexborough Man Fined £5
– Did Not Attend For “Medical”
Solders, Sailors & Airman:
– Bisby, Harry – On Service in Middle East
– Cutler A.E. – Tribute to Mexborough
– Jackson F.R. – Welcome News
– Lines W. – Hairdresser in Navy
– Millington – Three Brothers Missing
– Nicholson, Stanley – Trained In Canada
– Ramsey Sisters – With The Force’s
– Unwin, Joseph – Missing in Singapore
Editorials:
– India: Why Now?
– War Commentary
– Spendthrift
– Second Front

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Stories from 1892

Story from May 1892

Contents:
Alarming Accident at Manvers :
– Inquests
– Two Killed & Two Injured.
Great Fall of Bind at Manvers
– Two Lives Lost.
Local Board – The Small Pox Epidemic
Fight Between White and Black
Burglary in Wath Road
Drunkenness
Gambling at Adwick on Dearne
Terror to Children at Mexborough
Mexborough Man Robbed While Asleep.
Brutal Assault on a Young Lady:
– Details of Outrage
– Local Tradesman Arrested
Goole  37 Mexborough  45
Elsecar  67 for 5  Mexborough  51
Mexborough  78 for 2    White Lane  41
Sheffield & District League – 1891/92

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Stories from June 1892

Contents:
The Development of the Railways
Day’s Menagerie
Mexborough Feast
– Martina Bartlett & the Wild Beasts
Smallpox at Mexborough and Denaby
Small-Pox Epidemic
Whitsuntide Festivities
Elopement At Mexbro’.
The Kilnhurst Outrage
– Hewitt Before the Magistrates
– Committed For Trial
Marriage a Failure
– Mexborough Woman and Ardsley Man
Drunkenness
Mexborough 88  Elsecar  90
– An Exciting Finish
Mexborough  66   Swinton 62
– Another Exciting Match
Black Tall Hats  83  White Tall Hats  111

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Stories from 1912 and 1902

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1912 – February

Contents:
Mexborough  2  Leicester Fosse Res  1
– Mexborough’s Revenge
Denaby United  1  Mexborough Town  3
Hull Coal Traffic
– Slightly Increased Tonnage.
Strike will Affect 50,000 People
Marconigrams – February 24th, 1912
Marconigrams – February 17th, 1912
Mexborough 4  Notts County Res  2
– Town Victorious.
Huddersfield Town Res 2 Mexborough 0
– Mexborough Fail at Huddersfield.
Hull City Reserve  2  Mexborough 2
– Mexborough Draw at Hull
Mexborough   2  Hull City Reserve  0
– Mexborough Defeat Hull.
Midland League Results
Midland League Table

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1902 – February

Contents:
Boer War Letters
Sad Case from Mexboro’
Education at Mexborough.
Obscene Language.
Theft of Boots At Mexborough.
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1902 – January

Trap Accident
– Action Against Colliery Company
– Claim for £50.

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 Stories from 1800’s

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Stories from 1892
Historical Diary – 06 Jun Anniversaries
Historical Diary – 07 Jul Anniversaries
Historical Diary – 08 Aug Anniversaries
Historical Diary – 09 Sep Anniversaries
Historical Diary – 10 Oct Anniversaries
Historical Diary – 11 Nov Anniversaries
Historical Diary – 12 Dec Anniversaries

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Story from 1891
Alarming Bus Accident

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Stories from 1888
Singular Drowning Case
– The Results of Spitting.

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Story from 1887
The Sad Burning Case at Mexboro’

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Story from 1880
Opening of Market Hall & Offices.
Fatal Accident in Tunnel.

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Pictures and Articles from 1919

  • August 1919

1919

119 Articles from 1919

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Pictures and Articles from 1929

  • August 1929

1929

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Pictures and Stories from 1939

  • May 1939

1939

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144 Pictures and Stories from 1949

  • October 1949

1949

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Pictures & Stories from 1959

  • March 1959

1959

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Pictures & Stories from 1970

1970

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Pictures and Articles from 1916

1916

242 Pictures and Stories from 1916

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Pictures and Articles from 1917

1917

231 Pictures and Articles from 1917

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Pictures and Articles from 1918

1918

223 Articles from 1918

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Pictures and Articles from 1927

1927

155 Pictures and Articles from 1927

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Pictures and Articles from 1928

1928

200 Articles from 1928

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Pictures and Articles from 1937

1937

163 Pictures and Articles from 1937

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Pictures and Stories from 1938

1938

121 Articles from 1938

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Pictures and Stories from 1947

1947

138 Pictures and Articles from 1947

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Pictures and Stories from 1948

1948

January added
Dutch Visitor, High Honour, The Old and the New Brigade, Wedding,
Chamber of Trade’s Annual Dinner, Salvation Army Home League
Christmas at Mexborough Montagu, Talkie Film Show, New Medical Officer
Floods – Wettest for Ten Years

Pictures and Stories from 1957

1957

July added (Part)
June Added
May Added
April Added
March Added

1958

June added
Boy’s Quarry Fall, Sentimental Journey, N.U.M. President – B.E.M., Barber Retires After 50 Years, Service of Commemoration, Weddings, Cinemas, Gideon Bibles at Montagu, Over 60’s Birthday Tea, National School at Clumber Park, Sunburnt After a Week’s Camp, Cricket & Cycling

Pictures and Stories from 1967

1967

In Progress

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Pictures and Stories from 1968

1968

In Progress

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Pictures and Stories from 1969

  • April 1969

1969

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Articles from 1907

September Added
Shooting Sensation , Accidents, Crime and
Football

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Articles from 1908

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February
April
June
August
September
October
November
December

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