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October 1939


People

Conanby Fire – Eight Year Old Girl Alerts Family


William Moore – Conisbrough’s “Bill Adams” (picture & video)


Youthful Conisborough Naturalist’s Collection (picture)



Industry and Commerce

Spectacular Fall at Conisborough Quarry – 60,000 Ton Blast (picture)



Places

Denaby Priest Returns – Warm Welcome after Illness


A.R.P. Shelters – Detailed Plans for Denaby & Conisborough


Worst Storm for Years – Fireballs & Floods



Crime and Courts

Denaby Woman Drowns Herself – “Fed Up”



Sports

Conisborough Cricket Averages


Denaby Utd – Newark 0 Denaby 6 – Flying Colours


Midland League Wartime Competition


Denaby Utd – Denaby 3 Conisbrough Welfare 2 – Denaby have Goal to Spare



War

Sailor – G.E. Goddard – Return to Sea


Airman – Jones, Robert B.


Soldier – Horner, Gordon – On Lookout for Letters


Soldier – Till, Henry – “Somewhere Overseas”


Airman – Steel, Alan – Interred in Belgium – Brought Down (picture)


War Effort – Station Road School – Decontamination Centre – Babies Helmets


War Effort – Air Raids – Babies Helmets


War Effort – Extra Petrol – Blacking Out – A.R.P. Practice


Editorial – Pistol Point Peace


Editorial – The Monomaniac


Editorial – The Tempo Quickens


Editorial – Adolf Strafe England