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South Yorkshire Collieries & Hull Coal Trade.

August 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 18 August 1893 South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade. The return showing the quantity of coals sent to...

Editorial – The Coal Strike.

August 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 11 August 1893 The Coal Strike. So far as South Yorkshire generally is concerned the state of affairs is practically...

The Great Strike

August 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 04 August 1893 The Great Strike All the pits were set down last Friday, and implied that the great strike...

Marriages & Deaths – 01 September 1893

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...

Distress in the  District – Relief Works.

September 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 22 September 1893 Distress in the  District Relief Works. CONISBOROUGH. On Wednesday relief in the shape of soup and bread was distributed...

The Coal War – Ballotting on the Proposed Partial Resumption of Work.

September 1893
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...

A Disastrous Year

January 1894
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 19 January 1894 A Disastrous Year. The annual official return, showing the quantity of South Yorkshire coal (chiefly hards)...

South Yorkshire Collieries & Hull Coal Trade

May 1894
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 11 May 1894 South Yorkshire Collieries And The Hull Coal Trade Great Increase Of Local Tonnage100,000 Tons More Sent In...

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...

Larceny by a Lodger

January 1897
Sheffield Independent January 11, 1897 Larceny by a Lodger On Saturday, at Doncaster, Charles Drabble, labourer, Darfield, was sent to prison for a month for stealing...