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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...

State of Coal Industry

March 1878
Birmingham Daily Post – Saturday 23 March 1878 Barnsley, Friday. The whole district is in a very unsettled state, whilst trade was scarcely ever more depressed....

Unnatural Offence

March 1878
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 18 March 1878 Hy. and Mary Ann Spatman, husband and wife, belonging to Mexborough, were charged with stealing a pawn...

Floods at Mexbro’.

February 1884
Barnsley Chronicle – Saturday 09 February 1884 Floods at Mexbro’. On Saturday there were again many acres of land around Mexbro’ flooded by the overflow of...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – 27th January 1939

January 1939
South Yorkshire Times - Friday 27th January 1939 Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List Cases admitted to the Hospital during the week include:— THURSDAY: Alfred Nicoll, 10, West...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – March 4th, 1939

March 1939
Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List March 4th, 1939 Cases Admitted SATURDAY: John Murphy (50), 127 Prospect Avenue, Goldthorpe — compound fracture and pelvis injury, in street. MONDAY: Fred Hodkin (30),...

Floods in the Mexbro’ District.

January 1884
Sheffield Independent - Thursday 24 January 1884 Floods in the Mexbro’ District. At eleven o’clock last night the river Don was running over its banks at...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – Friday 03rd February 1939

February 1939
South Yorkshire Times, Friday 3rd February 1939 Montagu Hospital  The Week’s Casualty List Cases admitted to the Montagu Hospital during the week:— SATURDAY: John Murphy (50), 127, Probert Avenue,...

Chronological Table of Principal Occurrences In 1883.

January 1884
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 11 January 1884 Chronological Table of the Principal Occurrences in the District In 1883. JANUARY 1.—A porter named Arthur Barber killed...

Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade In 1883.

January 1884
Midland & Northern Coal & Iron Trades Gazette - Wednesday 09 January 1884 Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade In 1883. During the month of December,...

The Proposed Petty Sessional Court For Mexbro’.

January 1884
Sheffield Independent - Friday 04 January 1884 The Proposed Petty Sessional Court For Mexbro’. The inhabitants of Mexbro’ have much confidence that the proposed application at...

Montagu Hospital – Week’s Casualty List – 6th January 1939

January 1939
Montagu Hospital - Week’s Casualty List South Yorkshire Times, 6th January 1939 Cases Admitted Mexborough Albert Booth (5 months), of 3 Highfield Cottages, Mexborough, fractured humerus, at home. Treated...

Montagu Hospital – The Week’s Casualty List – 20th January 1939

January 1939
South Yorkshire Times, 20th January 1939 Montagu Hospital The Week’s Casualty List Admitted during the week to Montagu Hospital during the week were:— THURSDAY: John Henry Knight (19), 163,...

Outrage at Denaby

April 1792
Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 30 April 1792 Outrage at Denaby On Monday night, about eleven o'clock, Mr John Trickett, of Denaby, and Mr. Thyas Otley, of...

Wedding: Davis & Bairstow

July 1933
South Yorkshire Times, July 21st 1933 Wedding: Davis & Bairstow At Bolton-on-Dearne Parish Church on Saturday, the Rev. T. B. Almond officiating, Miss Elizabeth May...