By Gareth Dennison on Sun 26 Jun 2022
SOMETIMES they would be ordered out of their cells and forced to watch fellow prisoners of war being hanged as the Gestapo laughed.
By Gareth Dennison on Sun 19 Jun 2022
IT WAS perfect weather for the nation’s favourite pastime — but a First World War battlefield in France is not the most obvious venue for football.
By Gareth Dennison on Sun 12 Jun 2022
SERGEANT Horne of Rawmarsh visited the home of Thomas Bennett in 1864 after the police had received reports of concern.
By Gareth Dennison on Mon 06 Jun 2022
IT WAS 6.30am on September 4, 1945 and HMS Rotherham was anchored in the Straits of Malacca in the Far East, awaiting the arrival of six Japanese minesweepers.
By Admin on Fri 03 Jun 2022
EASTWOOD resident Winifred Wootton remembers the coronation well — it was the day she dressed up as a miner.
By Admin on Thu 02 Jun 2022
CORONATION Day was a bit of a washout for coronation queen June Stanley.
By Admin on Thu 02 Jun 2022
WORKERS at a Rotherham Council depot held a “lorry-load” of celebrations to mark the Queen’s 1977 jubilee.
By Admin on Thu 02 Jun 2022
JANE Gee’s close encounter with the Queen was captured by the Advertiser in a photo showing the schoolgirl ready to snap her own shot of Elizabeth II.
By Admin on Thu 02 Jun 2022
MATTHEW Allott was king for a day as the Queen celebrated 25 years on the throne.
By Admin on Thu 02 Jun 2022
SUSAN Armstrong donned her dazzling red, white and blue dress for the coronation day fancy dress contest — only to be upstaged by a doll in a box!
By Jill Theobald on Wed 01 Jun 2022
COVID-19 positive patient numbers have dropped at Rotherham Hospital from 30 to 27 in the last week.
By Bob Westerdale on Sun 29 May 2022
With the UEFA European Women’s Championship 2022 on the horizon and Rotherham playing its part, BOB WESTERDALE looks at the history of women’s football and the changing views towards it.
By Gareth Dennison on Sun 22 May 2022
THERE was a war on, but that was not going to stop the hardy bunch at St Paul’s in Masbrough from efforts to continue the church’s expansion build.
By Bob Westerdale on Thu 19 May 2022
A renovated hall will prove popular with those looking for a historic property, but Chase reporter BoB Westerdale is spooked.
By Gareth Dennison on Mon 16 May 2022
TWO little girls knocked on Keziah Mallinson’s door and told her a man outside wanted to meet her nearby on Masbrough Street.