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Adjudicators Taking A Breather

October 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times October 15, 1937 Adjudicators Taking A Breather Dr Armstrong Gibbs (left) and Mr Herbert Howells, the adjudicators at Mexborough Music Festival, enjoyed...

Kindly Gifts to Old Folk – Two Mexborough Veterans Honoured

October 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times October 1, 1937 Kindly Gifts to Old Folk Two Mexborough Veterans Honoured Mr. J. J. Woffinden, President of the Mexborough Old Folk's Committee,...

Mexborough’s Silver Jubilee Music Festival.

October 1937
Sheffield Independent - Wednesday 06 October 1937 IT is a matter for gratification that such considerable improvement has been effected during the past two years...

Obituary – Yarnold

October 1937
Mexborough & Swinton Times14 October 1937 Yarnold   The sudden passing of Mr.Thomas Yarnold (66), of Branksome House, Manor Road, deprives the district of another of its...

Weddings – Adams & Wardle – Brooks & Prestidge

October 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times October 1937 Miss Margaret Irene Adams, "Hikari" Cemetery Road, Mexborough and Mrs Charles Ryan Wardle, Hyde Park, Leeds at Mexborough Parish Church Miss May...

Festival Competitors

October 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times October 15, 1937 Festival Competitors Competitors in the Junior Elocution Classes at the Mexborough Musical Festival last week-end, photographed with the adjudicator,...

Royal Humane Society – Rescue Award

October 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times October 29, 1937 Rescue Award Ronald Hague (13), 16, John Street, Mexborough, has  been awarded the Parchment of the Royal Humane Society...

Social Service Centre Re Opened

October 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times October 15, 1937 Social Service. Visitors admiring the work of a member of the Mexborough Social Service Centre which was re-opened on...

Mexborough Tribute To Unemployed

October 1937
Sheffield Independent - Monday 11 October 1937 Mexborough Tribute To Unemployed Tributes to the miraculous transformation effected by unemployed men at premises in Barron's Yard,...

Blackbirds of 1937

October 1937
Mexborough and Swinton Times October 1, 1937 Blackbirds of 1937 A minstrel troop organised to raise funds for the Mexborough Congregational Church. The Minister, the Rev G...