Mexborough and Swinton Times June 15, 1928

Here are photographs of old Mexborough cottages- which link the town with the rural justice of its old village days.

The upper photograph shows a cottage in Cross Church Street which was once the local “justice room,” where offenders were examined by the magistrate. There are traces in the interior fittings of its use for this purpose.

The lower photograph shows a cottage only a few yards away in Market Street at the top of Quaker’s Fold—so called because it was the property of Mr. John Payne, of Newhill Grange, a Quaker—which was once used as the parish “lock-up” and meeting-place for the constables of Mexborough and the neighbourhood.