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Stealing Apples – Case Withdrawn

November 1883
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 09 November 1883 Case Withdrawn Thos. Ruckledge, collier, Bolton, was summoned for having stolen a number of apples from a...

Indecently Assaulting a Bolton Female

January 1882
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 13 January 1882 Indecently Assaulting a Bolton Female Samuel Cooke, collier, of Bolton, was summoned for indecently assaulting Mary Ann...

Savage Assault on the Highway near Bolton

January 1882
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 27 January 1882 Savage Assault on the Highway near Bolton John Henry Agas, coal dealer, of Mexboro’, was summoned for...

An Echo of the Denaby Strike

December 1903
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 07 December 1903 An Echo of the Denaby Strike At the Doncaster West Riding Court, on Saturday, Enoch Townend, collier, Swinton,...

St. Andrews Christmas Bazaar

December 1970
South Yorkshire Times : Saturday, December 19th, 1970 Happy Youngsters help to sell toys at St Andrew's Christmas Bazaar on Saturday Happy Youngsters help to sell...

Dearne Youth Club Bazaar

December 1970
South Yorkshire Times : Saturday, December 5th, 1970 Dearne Youth Club Bazaar Proceeds were in aid of charity . . . A lucky dip and the...

Coraths of Bolton

December 1933
South Yorkshire Times : Saturday, December 12th, 1970 Andrew Malyan, Martin Plummer, Alan Wood and Ann Goodwin dress the Christmas tree for the childrens party...

The Hull Coal Trade. Improved Figures.

May 1903
Sheffield Daily Telegraph — Thursday 07 May 1903 The Hull Coal Trade. Improved Figures. The recent reports of the satisfactory condition of the South Yorkshire coal...

Husband and Wife at Bolton-on-Dearne

June 1895
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 21 June 1895 Husband and Wife at Bolton-on-Dearne Wm. H. Cotes, colliery deputy, Bolton, was summoned for an alleged assault...

South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade

June 1895
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 14 June 1895 South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade The Hull coal return shows that during the past...

Local Collieries & Hull Trade – Effects of Dockers’ Dispute

May 1893
Sheffield Independent – Friday 26 May 1893 Local Collieries and the Hull Trade Effects of the Dockers’ Dispute – Coalowners’ and Miners’ Losses Yesterday, after anxiously waiting...

Dearne Trams – End Of Municipal Dream – YTC Take Over

September 1933
South Yorkshire Times, September 29th, 1933 Dearne Trams End Of A Municipal Dream Yorkshire Traction Company Take Over Last Tram On Saturday Night                                The Substituted 'Bus...

Dearne Youth Club’s Bazaar

December 1970
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday, December 5th, 1970 Proceeds were in aid of charity . . . a lucky dip and the hope of winning...

Mining Operations in the Don Valley – Easterly Extension

May 1893
Sheffield Independent – Friday 19 May 1893 Mining Operations in the Don ValleyEasterly Extensions The development of the South Yorkshire coalfield in an easterly direction has...

Mexborough Primitive Methodist Circuit

March 1894
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 09 March 1894 Mexborough Primitive Methodist Circuit A New Chapel for Denaby The quarterly meeting connected with the Mexborough Primitive Methodist...

Accident at the Bolton-on-Dearne Corn Mill

March 1894
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 9 March 1894 Accident at the Bolton-on-Dearne Corn Mill At the Doncaster County Court, a farm foreman named Jackson, of...

Drunkenness Cases

April 1883
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 13 April 1883 Drunkenness Cases James Wilson was charged with drunkenness on 4 March at Denaby and was fined 5s....

Prohibited Hours

April 1893
Dewsbury Chronicle And West Riding Advertiser – Saturday 01 April 1893 Prohibited Hours On Saturday, John Oxley, licensed victualler, Bolton-on-Dearne, and Richard Crowcroft, licensed victualler, Conisbrough,...

Charge Against A Servant

April 1893
Halifax Evening Courier – Tuesday 11 April 1893 Charge Against A Servant A good-looking female, Helen Priscilla Howard, 18, servant, lately in the service of John...

Flooding

February 1883
Leeds Mercury – Tuesday 13 February 1883 Flooding The Don and Dearne have overflowed and flooded a large tract of land. The highways to several adjacent...

Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade

February 1883
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 10 February 1883 Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade From the official return of the quantity of coal sent into Hull...

Almanack for 1881

December 1880
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 24 December 1880 Almanack for 1881 Mexboro’ Local Board Members | Order of RetiringStenton, H.Dickinson, P.Peace, W.Beevers, W. | April 15th,...

1880 – Principal Chronological Events

December 1880
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 24 December 1880 Principal Chronological Events 1879 Oct. 20.—Strike at the Mexboro’ and Swinton Glass Works. Nov. 19.—Mass meeting of miners at...

Our Portrait Gallery – All-Weather Wear

May 1933
South Yorkshire Times, May 12th 1933 Our Portrait Gallery All-Weather Wear Joyce English, Bolton-on-Dearne

Mexborough and Parliamentary Representation

December 1884
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 09 December 1884 Mexborough and Parliamentary Representation It is considered that within a radius of six miles from either Mexborough or...