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Soldier – Guest, Roy – Letter From Voyager.
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Saturday 04 October 1941
Letter From Voyager.
The father and young wife of Mr. Roy Guest were pleased to receive...
Darfield 86 Kilnhurst 76
Barnsley Chronicle - Saturday 27 August 1870
Darfield v. Kilnhurst.
A very exciting game of cricket was played at Darfield on Saturday, between the Darfield and...
Alarming Colliery Fire – Great Destruction of Property – 700 Men Out Of Employment.
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 15 October 1872
Alarming Colliery Fire Darfield Main.
Great Destruction of Property.
700 Men Out Of Employment.
One of the...
State of Coal Industry
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....
Fatal Accident to A Child At Darfield
Barnsley Chronicle Saturday 07 April 1883
Fatal Accident to A Child At Darfield.
On Monday child named Ada Ellen Ward, aged two years and ten...
Chronological Table of Principal Occurrences In 1883.
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...
The Hull Coal Trade.
Midland & Northern Coal & Iron Trades Gazette – Wednesday 13 February 1884
The Hull Coal Trade.
The position of the South Yorkshire collieries in relation...
South Yorkshire Coal Trade with Hull
Midland & Northern Coal & Iron Trades Gazette – Wednesday 11 June 1884
The South Yorkshire Coal Trade with Hull
The returns for the past month...
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...
Houghton Main Disaster
From Coal Mining Records
Houghton Main, Barnsley, Yorkshire. 30th December, 1886.
The colliery was about seven miles from Barnsley. Many of the afternoon shift had been...