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Members Of Mexborough Grammar School
Members Of Mexborough Grammar School Sixth form college at the dress rehearsal for their production of “the beaux Stratagem.”
Hairdresser Of The Future?
South Yorkshire Times - Saturday, December 5th, 1970
Hairdresser Of The Future?
Frances Watson (4), one of the models for the hairdressing show by Stephen of...
Mining Operations in the Don Valley – Easterly Extension
Sheffield Independent – Friday 19 May 1893
Mining Operations in the Don ValleyEasterly Extensions
The development of the South Yorkshire coalfield in an easterly direction has...
A Mexbro’ Miner Found Poisoned at Conisbro’
Sheffield Independent – Thursday 18 May 1893
A Mexbro’ Miner Found Poisoned at Conisbro’
About half-past six o’clock yesterday morning two women found a man lying...
Cinemas – Majestic, Empire & Oxford – Blonde Venus (video)
South Yorkshire Times, June 30th 1933
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Threatened Strike Of Glassblowers
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Friday 13 July 1883
Threatened Strike Of Glassblowers
The glassblowers employed by Messrs. Kilner Bros., Conisborough; Mr. Thomas Barron, Mexborough; Messrs. Waddington...
Drunkenness
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 13 July 1883
Drunkenness
Geo. Kitchen, collier, Mexboro’, and Richd. Parey, collier, Denaby, were charged with drunkenness on licensed premises...
Assault At Mexboro’
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 13 July 1883
Assault At Mexboro’
Jno. Knowland, collier, Denaby, was summoned for assaulting James Hy. Burdin, collier, of Mexboro’,...
Drunkenness
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 13 July 1883
Drunkenness
Geo. Kitchen, collier, Mexboro’, and Richd. Parey, collier, Denaby, were charged with drunkenness on licensed premises...
Mexboro’ Feast – An Irish tale
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 29 June 1883
Mexboro' Feast
The proceedings at Mexboro’ on Monday were very interesting. People were parading the streets in...
Miners’ Demonstration At Mexborough
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 26 June 1883
Miners’ Demonstration At Mexborough
The annual demonstration in connection with the Denaby Main Lodge of the Miners’ Association...
Sunday Closing Meeting at Mexborough – Scenes at Mexborough
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 16 March 1894
Sunday Closing Meeting at Mexborough
Scenes at Mexborough, Swinton, Denaby, and Conisborough
A public meeting to advocate the...
Montagu Cottage Hospital
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 16 March 1894
Montagu Cottage Hospital
At Montagu Cottage Hospital, two patients had been admitted, one discharged, and eight remained...
Mexborough Primitive Methodist Circuit
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 09 March 1894
Mexborough Primitive Methodist Circuit
A New Chapel for Denaby
The quarterly meeting connected with the Mexborough Primitive Methodist...
Railway Traffic from Yorkshire Collieries to Hull
Railway News – Saturday 14 April 1883
The Railway Traffic from the Yorkshire Collieries to Hull
The quarterly return relating to the tonnage of coal transported...
Miners’ Meeting at Mexborough
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 10 April 1883
Miners’ Meeting at Mexborough
A large meeting of the men employed at Denaby Main Colliery was held last...
A Feature of Barnsley’s Recent Displays
South Yorkshire Times, May 5th 1933
A feature of Barnsley's recent displays has been the clever play of Eddie Fleetwood who last season was with...
A May Day “Crowning”
South Yorkshire Times, May 5th 1933
A May Day “Crowning”
The “crowning” of the May Queen, (Joan Blackburn) at the annual festival of the Park Road...
The Crowning of the May Queen,
South Yorkshire Times, May 12th 1933
The crowning of the May Queen, Joan Dennis, by Mrs. Arnold, a member of the local Education Committee, at...
Rink Talent Left
South Yorkshire Times, May 12th 1933
Rink Talent Left
A Mexborough youth left his native town on Saturday to seek fame and fortune on the stage....
The Hiring System.
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 5 March 1883
The Hiring System.
At the Doncaster West Riding Police Court on Saturday, William Kirk was charged that, being...
The Yorkshire Coal Traffic to Hull
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 02 March 1883
The Yorkshire Coal Traffic to Hull
The official returns of the quantity of coal sent from the South and...
Alleged Theft of Furniture
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 02 March 1883
Alleged Theft of Furniture
William Kirk, collier, lately residing at Mexboro’, and who was apprehended at Warsop,...
Mexborough 5 Conisborough 3
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 11 April 1893
Mexborough 5 Conisborough 3
Teams representing the above played a game at Mexborough yesterday, on behalf of the...
South Yorkshire Collieries And Hull Trade
Sheffield Independent – Thursday 20 April 1893
South Yorkshire Collieries And Hull Trade
In consequence of the Hull dispute and the disorganised state of affairs at...