1970 | Mexborough

January

Contents:
Cub Scouts Party
Scouts’ and Guides’ Annual Party
Weddings :
– Cruise & McGinn
– Gilbert & Caddick
– Millen & Elliott
– Trout & Hawley
– Vickers & Hirst
– Cook & Millwood
– Howitt & Parnham
– Priest & Oakton
Youth Club entertain O.A.P.
A.M.B. Products Ltd (Advert)
Ben Bailey Construction (Advert)
Commerce Key for South Yorkshire
Holmes of Mexborough
Merryweather & Corbett (advert)
Post Office Cleaner Retires
Shop Assistant of the Year
Research into Coal Blending Plant
Boilermakers’ Society Presentation
Manvers Children’s Party
Christmas Committee Awards
Church Brownies’ Christmas Party
Guide Dogs for the Blind
Montagu Hospital Social Evening
Mexborough Rotary Club’s Dinner
‘Flu Builds Up Queues
Building a New Road
Garden Street Infants School Nativity
School “Top of the Form”
– Quiz Team on Colour TV.
Green Room Club – “The Heiress,”
Attacked Wrong Person
– Woman’s Theory
Brothers Fined For Police Assault
Year Without Home Defeat
– Mexboro’s Proud Boast
Bridlington Trinity 4, Mexborough 3
– Linesmen Didn’t Turn Up
Frecheville 0, Mexborough Town 2
– Maestro Whitehouse Makes Sure
Yorkshire League Table
– January 31st, 1970

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February

Contents:
Weddings:
– Allan & Holmes
– Coates & Johnson
– Jones & Fearon
– Phillips & Ainley
– Morgan & Bradley
A Welcome “face lift”
– Main Street Shopping Area
Main Street Shopping:
– Webster’s
– Allied Travel Agency
– Cooplands
– Knitmaster
– Lee’s Handyman’s Stores
– Mary Goddard
– Pennine Motor Spares
Merryweather & Corbett (advert)
Federation Retail Newsagents
– Dignitaries
– Dinner Guests
Discotheque Narrows Generation Gap
Mexbororough Discotheque:
– Chairman Serves Drinks
– Dancers enjoying an evening
New President – Manager
Dolcliffe Road School 1913-14,
Mexborough Girls’ Brigade Colours
Grammar School – “Iolanthe”
Pupils Caught in Snow Storm
School Public Speaking Contest
Musical Comedy Society :
– Cricket Prizes
– Members & Guests
– Presentations

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March

Contents:
Double – 21st & Engagement
Mexbro’ Ruby Wedding
Institute of Bankers Dinner
Weddings:
– Beal & Malyan
– Bedford & Beckett
– Campbell & Seddon
– Edwards & Brown
– Tagala & Vains
‘Star’ Newsboy/Girl of the Year
Student is in Crew of Famous Sail Schooner
“Curleygirl” Comes To Town:
– Window Display
– Advert
“Star” Newsboy/Girl of the Year
Bank Street Methodist Fashion Show
Carr Hill Tyre Service Ltd.:
– Well Stocked
– Your Interests Come First
– Tyre Fitting
Madame Florence Fashion Show
– “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”
Merryweather & Corbett (advert)
Mexborough Chamber of Trade Annual Dinner
Market Traders Annual Buffet and Dance
Mexborough Athletic Club Miners’ Welfare
Mexborough Civic dinner
Bank Street Methodist Church Fashion Show
Miners’ Arms Social Club
– Annual Dinner-Dance
Wath Camera Club Annual Exhibition
Dolcliffe Road Infants’ School, in 1925
Headmaster, Former Grammar School Boy
How Mexborough Got Its Relief Road
Mexborough Grammar School
– Basketball Team
– P.T.A. Dinner-Dance
Mexborough Musical Competition Festival
Park Road Infants’ School Easter Bonnet
Mexborough Relief Road
– Approach to Roundabout
– Entry into Town Centre
– Opening
Schofield Technical College Open Evening
Roman Terrace School Fashion Show
Mexborough Green Room Club
– “All Things Bright and Beautiful”
Mexborough Town 1, Denaby United 3
– Yorkshire League Cup

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April

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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May

Contents:
Two Killed – 2 Hurt in Evening Crash
Diamond Wedding – Mr & Mrs Slater
Golden Wedding – Mr & Mrs Barker
Silver Wedding – Mr. and Mrs. Dean
Died Day after Grand-Daughter’s Wedding
Ben Bailey of Ben Bailey Construction
Cycling at Eighty!
Four Generations
Presents From Around the World
He’s Seeing the World
He’s Answered Last 999 Call
The Good Old Sound
Scout Presentation
Scouts Were the Waiters
Weddings:
– Stocks & Earley
– Copley & Merrey
– Cutler & Schofield
– Fox & Canham
– Haslehurst & Hill
– Johnson & Haywood
– Thickett & Smith
Girl in the Pipe
Schoolboy Press Photographer
Brothers In Arms
Fred Wilkinson (Advert)
Merryweather & Corbett – May 30th
Muscroft Army Stores (Advert)
Putting a ‘Carpet’ on a Colliery Tip
Retired N.U.M. Tea & Concert
First Phase Jobs At G.E.C. For Women
N.U.R. Retired Member’s Tea & Concert
Liberal Enters ‘field’
New Council Chairman At Mexborough
Cinema – Majestic – Now Star Bingo
Golden Wedding – Mr & Mrs Hardwick
Methodist Church Boys’ Brigade Company,
Montagu Hospital Annual Prizegiving
Montagu Hospital Prizegiving
Inner Wheel 23rd Charter Day
St. John Brigade Service Medal
Nursing Sisters Long Service Awards
Roman Hotel (Mexborough) Social Club
BBC TV – May 30, 1970
– The Debbie Reynolds Show (video)
Bring and Buy Sale
Dolcliffe Road House Demolition
Dunstan, Goff & Co – Properties for Sale
Mexborough Grammar School Choir
Mexborough Grammar School Sports Day
St. John’s Church of England School Choir
Music Mistress at Grammar School
Park Road Infants’ at Dovecote Farm
Pupils Go Down to the Farm
– Early for Apples
– Getting to Know Animals
– Sheep Biscuits
The Cost of Collecting a Pension
Yorkshire TV – May 30, 1970
– Dear Mother, Love Albert (video)
Empress – Wave Rave
Green Room Production of “Clutterbuck,”
Play In A Pub
Theatre – Rockingham Theatre
Ski-Ing And Bowling Feats
Lincoln United 2, Mexborough 0
– Lincoln ‘Poach’ Two from Mexboro
Main Street 2 Denaby United 0
– Challenge Cup Final Replay
Mexborough 3, Hatfield Main 0
– Should Have Had Net Full by Switch Round
Denaby United 0, Mexborough Town 1
– Chances For United –Town’s Points
Mexborough Town F.C.
-“Player of the Year” Award
Round the Yorkshire – May 23rd 1970
South Riding League – May 30th 1970