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Pulling a Pony’s Tongue Out

December 1884
Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough – Tuesday 16 December 1884 Pulling a Pony’s Tongue Out Walter Hartley and George Henry Morris, two youths living at Denaby, were...

Important Sale at Mexborough – The Great & Little Leaches

February 1886
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 26 February 1886 Important Sale at Mexborough - The Great & Little Leaches Messrs. Thos. T. Cundy and Sons offered...

Sheffield Challenge Cup Final Tie – Heeley 1 Mexborough Town 2

12 April 1886
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 12 April 1886 Sheffield Challenge Cup. Final Tie. Heeley 1 Mexborough Town 2 Teams: Mexborough: W Nicholson, goal; C Taylor, C Jubb,...

The Outbreak of Typhoid at Denaby Main

February 1887
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 07 February 1887 The Outbreak of Typhoid at Denaby Main The typhoid outbreak in Sparrow Barracks and Clay lane, Mexborough, shows...

The Outbreak of Typhoid at Mexborough.

February 1887
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 05 February 1887 The Outbreak of Typhoid at Mexborough. Dr. Sykes, medical officer of health for the Mexborough Local Board,...

A Terrible Tragedy – Wife Murder at Wombwell

March 1887
Leeds Times, Saturday, March 26, 1887 Wife Murder at Wombwell Junction A terrible tragedy was enacted on Sunday at Wombwell Junction, near Barnsley, the surrounds of...

Wife Murder at Wombwell – Inquest

March 1887
Leeds Times, Saturday, March 26, 1887 Wife Murder near Barnsley The inquest was held at  New Wombwell on Thursday, Superintendent Kane was present, and Mr E.J....

The Wombwell Tragedy – Trial of Hazlehurst – Wombwell’s Wild Beasts.

May 1887
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 09 May 1887 The Wombwell Tragedy. Trial of Hazlehurst. Wombwell's Wild Beasts. A Present from The Bench. In the Crown Court Leeds...

The Father of The South Yorkshire Glass Trade – Thomas Barron

July 1887
Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Monday 04 July 1887 The Father of The South Yorkshire Glass Trade. People who travel along the railway from Sheffield to Doncaster...

The Sad Burning Case at Mexboro’

August 1887
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 05 August 1887 The Sad Burning Case at Mexboro' The inquiry touching the death of Elisabeth Sutton, wife of...