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Marconigrams – 06th February 1904
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 06 February 1904
Marconigrams
Mr. Fison is announced to visit Mexboro’ on Tuesday next.
The busiest portion of Mexboro’ is now...
Marriages — August 1893
Marriages — August 1893 (Mexborough & Swinton Times)
Groom
Bride
Date
Place
Details
Arthur Joy
Mary Ann Goode
Aug-06
Mexborough Parish Church
—
Thomas Harman
Mary Ann Buckley
Aug-14
Mexborough Church
—
Thomas Begg
Lavinia Brown
Aug-15
All Saints’ Church, Wath
—
John William Booth
Sarah...
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...
The Great Strike
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 04 August 1893
The Great Strike
All the pits were set down last Friday, and implied that the great strike...
South Yorkshire League Table
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 25 August 1893
South Yorkshire League Table
Club
Played
Won
Lost
Drawn
Points
Mitchell Main
11
9
1
1
19
Rawmarsh
13
7
3
3
17
Wath
12
8
4
0
16
Carbrook Reform
11
7
4
0
14
Denaby Main
13
6
5
2
14
Thrybergh Park
14
5
9
0
10
Greasborough
13
3
9
1
7
Kilnhurst
13
2
8
3
7
South Yorkshire Collieries & Hull Coal Trade.
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 18 August 1893
South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade.
The return showing the quantity of coals sent to...
Marriages – July 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – July 1893
Marriages
Groom Name
Bride Name
Date
Place
Details
John William Price
Ada White
July 5
Register Office, Rotherham
Groom of Manchester; bride of Wath
Arthur Henry Burrows
Frances Annie Lister
July...
South Yorkshire League Table – July 28, 1893
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 28 July 1893
South Yorkshire League
Club
Played
Won
Lost
Drawn
Points
Mitchell Main
6
5
1
0
10
Rawmarsh
7
5
2
0
10
Wath
8
5
3
0
10
Carbrook Reform
8
5
3
0
10
Denaby Main
10
4
6
0
8
Greasborough
10
3
6
1
7
Kilnhurst
7
2
3
1
5
Thrybergh Park
8
2
6
0
4
Wombwell Main 66 Conisborough 55
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 21 July 1893
Wombwell Main v. Conisborough
These teams met at Wombwell Main on Saturday. The home captain won the...
Mexborough & District Collieries & Hull Coal Trade
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 14 July 1893
Mexborough and District Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade
Yesterday the official return showing the quantity of...
Thunderstorm
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 07 July 1893
Thunderstorm
This neighbourhood was on Sunday and Monday visited by another thunderstorm, accompanied by rain.
Houses Struck by...
Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 18 December 1883
Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade
During the month of November the tonnage of coal sent to Hull...
Deaths & Marriages
Mexborough & Swinton Times, November 1883
Marriages
SENIOR—DRABBLE.—Oct. 28, at the Registrar’s Office, High Street, Doncaster, Frank Senior, glassblower, to Geraldine Drabble, both of Conisboro’.
ALLERTON—MULLINS.—Oct. 28,...
Wombwell Local Board of Health
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 09 November 1883
Wombwell Local Board of Health
The monthly meeting of this Board was held on Monday evening week.
Present,...
South Yorkshire Collieries & Hull Coal Trade in 1881
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 20 January 1882
The South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade in 1881
The annual return relating to the...
Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Thursday 11 October 1883
Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade
Hitherto the quantity of coal sent into Hull compares favourably with last...
Marconigrams – August 11th, 1933
South Yorkshire Times, August 11th, 1933
Marconigrams
How we envy and admire those that go down to the sea in slips!
Weary Willie (sighing): Don't I feel...
Marconigrams – October 6th, 1933
South Yorkshire Times, October 6th, 1933
Marconigrams
West Yorkshire coal mines were operated at a loss of £210,611 during August.
Plans have been prepared for a new...
Marconigrams – October 13th, 1933
South Yorkshire Times, October 13th, 1933
Marconigrams
Lady Albreda Bourke of Kildare, an aunt of Earl Fitzwilliam, died on Monday.
The river Don rose three and...
Marconigrams – November 10th, 1933
South Yorkshire Times, November 10th, 1933
Marconigrams
The next Wath Rural Deanery Choirs Festival will be held in 1935.
Get ready to join our great knitting contest....
Alfred Ridyard
South Yorkshire Times, October 13th, 1933
The London critics who gave Alfred Ridyard, the Cudworth youth whom West Bromwich Albion secured from Barnsley, a somewhat...
Great Figure In Local Cricket – Wombwell Pioneer – Seth Kilner
South Yorkshire Times, October 13th, 1933
Great Figure In Local Cricket
A Wombwell Pioneer
Seth Kilner, of Field House, Stairfoot, died on Saturday at the age...
“The King and I” – Wombwell High School.
South Yorkshire Times : Saturday, December 19th, 1970
Irene Newsome (Anna) and Stephen Mann (Louis) in a scene from “The King and I,” presented this...
The Hull Coal Trade – 30,000 Tons Decrease
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 06 April 1903
The Hull Coal Trade
A 30,000 Tons Decrease
The return furnished by the Hull Chamber of Commerce and Shipping...
The Hull Coal Trade – November Returns
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 11 December 1903
The Hull Coal Trade
November Returns
Denaby and Cadeby Collieries, which, of course, head the list, stand out...