South Yorkshire Times, July 23rd 55
Tom Hill Youth Centre
On Saturday a party of club members will spend a holiday at Kilner Manor in South Wales. This follows a successful holiday last year when a party spent a week in the new Forest district of Christchurch.
The following day a party will again be en route Siegen, Westphalia, where they will stay with German families whom they have already accommodated, in the reciprosal West Riding/Arnsburg exchange scheme.
Negotiations are now in hand for the proposed visit of a party of young people from Berlin in October. This would enable the local host to visit Berlin next summer when the route taken is expected to be London, Dover, Ostend, Hanover and thence by through the “corridor” to Berlin.
The swimming instruction class, which has been held at Denaby baths since the reopening in April, has ended and members taking part have made good progress under the instruction of Mr Tony Balding.
The football coaching class has been so successful that it has carried on – holidays apart – for the past two years and is now taking a break until the restart in September. The benefits are amply illustrated by the number of trophies on display in the club and the excellently record in local junior football.
The cricket team playing in section “B” of the Mexborough and District evening league on Monday defeated Manvers Electric by five wickets. The present champions of this section, the Youth Centre now seen to be hot favourites to win the championship for the second year running and they now head the league table with one match to play.
Club member Iris Broom, of Melton View, Denaby Main, spent the weekend at Woolley Hall attending a physical education course promoted by the West Riding Education Department. Later this month she will be a student at a 10 day outdoor course for girls to be held at Ingleton. Miss Broom will be known for her performance in straight plays and pantomime which have been produced in the youth centre during the past few years. Today’s