Barnsley Independent – Saturday 04 October 1919

Railway Strike

The railway stoppage must have been in unpleasant development for the people who had been away holidaying

There was quite a large number of local families at Scarborough and Blackpool especially from Wombwell, it being Wombwell Feast last week. Imagine their feeling on Saturday when they wanted to come home and there were no trains to take them. Happily many have been able to return by motor, and in the matter of fares a good number of them have got back very reasonably.

No ono would grumble at the price charged by one Wombwell Firm, vis, 20s. from Scarborough especially considering that the motor had to do the double journey.

Many girls in the Wombwell district, at home on holiday for the Wombwell feast, unable to return to their work in the mills in the Huddersfield and Bradford district’s

Most of the Barnsley Grammar School and girls High School students live in the Wombwell area have been brought by motor charabanc