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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...
Editorial – The Coal Strike.
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 11 August 1893
The Coal Strike.
So far as South Yorkshire generally is concerned the state of affairs is practically...
Scenes at Denaby Main Colliery – Arrival of Military and Magistrates – Alarming Rumours.
Sheffield Independent - Tuesday 12 September 1893
Scenes at Denaby Main Colliery.
Arrival of Military and Magistrates.
Alarming Rumours.
There has not been such a sensational...
The Great Strike
South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 04 August 1893
The Great Strike
All the pits were set down last Friday, and implied...
Marriages & Deaths – 01 September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 1 September 1893
Marriages.
Goode—Bradley.—August 20, at the Register Office, Barnsley, James Albert Goode to Elizabeth Bradley, both of Darfield.
Johnson—Parkes.—August...
The Coal War – Riots and Rumours of Riots.
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 15 September 1893
The Coal War
Riots and Rumours of Riots.
Soldiers in the District.
Pits under Protection.
Miners Determined to Prevent Damage.
A...
The Coal War – Ballotting on the Proposed Partial Resumption of Work.
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 29 September 1893
The Coal War.
Ballotting on the Proposed Partial Resumption of Work.
Everything Quiet, Soldiers and Police Leaving the...
The Coal War – Wearisome Struggle – No Signs of Giving Way
Mexborough & Swinton Times, 27 October 1893
The Coal War.
A Wearisome Struggle.
No Signs of Giving Way.
The Coal Owners Compact.
Distress Still on the Increase.
The disastrous dispute...
The Coal War – Where to Send Money
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday, 27 October 1893
Where To Send Money
Conisborough.—This Committee has been relieving about 550 daily with soup and bread, but...
The Coal War – Feeding the Children
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 3 November 1893
Feeding the Children
Free Breakfast Fund, Roman Terrace
A very enjoyable evening’s concert was given on Friday last...