Mexborough and Swinton Times November 12, 1949
Mexborough’s Shopping Week
The Programme
Varied Competitions and Many Prizes
Town Wild Be A Blaze Of Light
Mexborough’s Shopping Week, the first organised by Mexborough Chamber of Trade since the 1930 Empire Shopping Week, opens next Thursday.
During the week the town’s main thoroughfare will be transformed into a ” street of light ” with every shop window ablaze with light Special coloured street lighting displays at the bottom of Adwick Road and in Montagu and Post Office Squares will be a feature of the week, and there will also be individual shop window displays
Off With a Bang
Before the opening ceremony Mexborough Military Band will parade from Adwick Road to Post Office square. Prior to their departure from Adwick Road at 7-30 p.m., rockets will be fired and the special lighting switched on.
The band will proceed to Montagu Square, arriving at 7-45 p.m. Again there will be the firing of rockets and the switching on of the lights in the Square and around the Market Hall. There will be a similar ceremony when the band reach Post Office Square at 8 p.m. The band will then play until the opening ceremony at 8-15 p.m.
Performing the opening ceremony will be the well-known radio singer, Miss Doreen Lavender, who starred with Walter Midgley in last year’s production of “Merrie England” by the South Yorkshire Musical Society, and who has also been engaged for their forthcoming production of “The New Moon.” Mr. Harry May, president of the Chamber of Trade, and Conn. G. W, Hurst, the chairman of Mexborough Urban Council, will also speak at the ceremony.
People will be busy during the week gazing into the windows of the shops trying to sort out the rumbled letters into the slogan ‘ Shop in Mexborough for good value.” The prize for this competition will be a week at Blackpool.
For the children there will be a mis-spelt words competition, with prizes of £3, £2 and £1.
Official programmes for the week can be obtained from any of the shops. As the programme contains the entry form for the jumbled letters competition, it is an indispensable part of the equipment of every shopper.
The programme also contains the entry for the children’s mis-spelt words competition, and bears on its front cover a number which may entitle the holder to one of the numerous, prizes which are being displayed in the shop windows for the lucky number competition.
A Necessity
A list of 20 shops at which the entry forms for the various competitions may be handed in is contained in the programme. Obviously, therefore, a programme is a necessity, as well as being a perfect form of investment.
In a town like Mexborough, drawing as it does so many shoppers le from neighbouring towns and villages, it is obvious that quality must prevail. And how handy this week will be for Christmas shoppers. The wide range of goods available will give them the opportunity of laying in their supplier before the inevitable last minute rush with accompanying shortages.
Which brings us to the point that for value and variety, courtesy and co-operation you cannot do better than shop in Mexborough.