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Mexborough Feast

June 1927
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 24, 1927 Mexborough Feast The “Lindbergh touch” on the Mexborough Fairground.

“Mexborough and Swinton Times” in India

June 1927
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 24, 1927 This is a snapshot of four local lads serving with the second West Yorkshires  in India and stationed...

Ready For the Eclipse

June 1927
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 24, 1927 Ready For the Eclipse Mr George Middleton, an enthusiastic Mexborough naturalist and astronomer, taking an observation with his telescope. Mr...

Young Johnny Earp – Worth his Fifty

June 1927
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 24, 1927 Worth his Fifty Young Johnny Earp, a Mexborough newsboy, who captains his team – Hartley’s Yard – and who...

Wedding of Mexborough’s Curate

June 1927
Mexborough & Swinton Times, June 24, 1927 The Rev. S.A. Taylor, curate at Mexborough Parish Church, at Ordsall Parish Church with his bride

A Header into the Don

June 1927
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 17, 1927 A Header into the Don In the absence of public swimming baths, this is how the “young idea” of...

Agitators at Work

June 1927
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 11 June 1927 Agitators at Work. The allegations made at a recent meeting of the Miners’ Federation to the effect...

Sandall Beat

June 1927
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 17, 1927 Councillor JE Cliff, of Mexborough, releasing a little energy at Sandall Beat, where a number of Mexborough children...

Whitsuntide at Mexborough

June 1927
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 10, 1927 Whitsuntide at Mexborough A section of the School Gathering at Mexborough on Whit Monday. The Vicar of Mexborough (Dr Briggs)...

May Queen of Doncaster Road Infants

June 1927
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 3, 1927 A Modern May Queen The May Queen of the Doncaster Road infants School, Mexborough – Dorothy Smalley – motoring...