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Stealing Apples – Case Withdrawn
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Case Withdrawn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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
South Yorkshire Times, May 12th 1933
Our Portrait Gallery
All-Weather Wear
Joyce English, Bolton-on-Dearne
Mexborough and Parliamentary Representation
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...




