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Day’s Menagerie
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 18, 1892
Day's Menagerie
(picture from Wikipedia)
This famous exhibition is announced to visit Mexborough during the feast.
A better collection of wild...
Mexborough Feast
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 18, 1892
Mexborough Feast
Signs are that this event is close upon as. Already every available space in the town is...
Mexborough Feast – Martina Bartlett & the Wild Beasts
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 24, 1892
Mexborough Feast
Nowhere in South Yorkshire is the so called village “feast” recognised with more gusto than at Mexborough,...
Smallpox at Mexborough and Denaby
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 18, 1892
Smallpox at Mexborough and Denaby
The Mexborough Local Board having been refused permission to take the second sufferer...
Smallpox at Mexborough and Denaby
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 18, 1892
Smallpox at Mexborough and Denaby
The Mexborough Local Board having been refused permission to take the second sufferer...
The Small-Pox Epidemic at Denaby and Mexbro’.
Sheffield Independent - Friday 17 June 1892
The Small-Pox Epidemic at Denaby and Mexbro'.
Eleven cases of email-pox have occurred altogether, and nine are at present...
Whitsuntide Festivities
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 10 June 1892
Whitsuntide Festivities
A more delightful Whit-week meteorologically could not be conceived than that of Jupiter Pluvius —if...
Elopement At Mexbro’.
Sheffield Independent - Wednesday 01 June 1892
Elopement At Mexbro'.
Yesterday considerable excitement prevailed amongst the miners' wives in the neighbourhood of Wath road, Mexbro',...
Marriage a Failure – Mexborough Woman and Ardsley Man
Mexborough and Swinton Times June 18, 1892
Barnsley Police Court.
Marriage a Failure
Mexborough Woman and Ardsley Man
Barnsley Police Court afforded many arguments in support of the...
Drunkenness
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 03 June 1892
Drunkenness
Charles Athron, boat hauler Mexborough was fined 5s and 9s 6d costs for drunkenness.
William Bilbrough, labourer,...