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Great Fall of Bind at Manvers Main Colliery – Two Lives Lost.

May 1892
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 10 May 1892 Great Fall of Bind at Manvers Main Colliery. Two Lives Lost. Early yesterday morning a terrible accident occured...

Mexborough Local Board – The Small Pox Epidemic

May 1892
Mexborough & Swinton Times, May 6th 1892 Mexborough Local Board The Small Pox Epidemic The Medical Officer reported that there had been sixteen deaths during the month...

Fight Between White and Black

May 1892
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 27 May 1892 Fight Between White and Black A drunken vagrant accosted a black man in high-street Mexborough, on Saturday...

Burglary in Wath Road

May 1892
Mexborough & Swinton Times, May 6th 1892 Burglary in Wath Road On Thursday morning, about 5 p.m. Mr. Lee, grocer, at Wath-road, Mexborough , on coming...

Drunkenness

May 1892
Mexborough & Swinton Times, May 6th 1892 Drunkenness Thomas Holberry Taylor, Mexborough, had to pay 15 shillings, including costs, for drunkenness on 22 April. William Stonehouse, miner,...

Gambling at Adwick on Dearne

May 1892
Mexborough and Swinton Times May 20, 1892 Gambling at Adwick on Dearne The following were charged with having gambled at Adwick on the 7th inst; James...

Terror to Children at Mexborough

May 1892
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 27 May 1892 A Terror to Children at Mexborough For some time past complaints have been received by the police...

A Mexborough Man Robbed While Asleep.

May 1892
Mexborough & Swinton Times, May 6th 1892 A Mexborough Man Robbed While Asleep. On Wednesday, at the Doncaster Borough Police Court, George Willey, boat hauler, Church...

A Mexborough Man Robbed While Asleep.

May 1892
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 13 May 1892 A Mexborough Man Robbed While Asleep. At the Doncaster Borough Court on Monday, John Lightowler, George...

Brutal Assault on a Young Lady At Kilnhurst – Details of Outrage

May 1892
Mexborough & Swinton Times, May 27, 1892 Brutal Assault on a Young Lady At Kilnhurst. On Sunday a sensation was caused in the township of Kilnhurst...