South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 30 December 1922

Local Happenings

January

1 – Denaby Parish Church War Memorial unveiled by Sir Alington Bewick Copley

4– Mexborough Comrades Club totally destroyed by fire.

6 – George Harry Robinson (50), 32, Cross Gate, Mexborough, murdered his wife. Subsequently sentenced to death, and respited.

7 – Retirement of Dr John Gardner, for many years a medical practitioner at Mexborough.

10 –“National” Kitchen at Goldthorpe closed

11 – West Riding County Council decide to build a secondary school at Wath on Dearne.

16 – Wages dispute at Mitchell Main Colliery settled.

February

22 – Suicide at Nottingham of Rev. A.E. Allenby, formerly a curate at Denaby Main.

25 – Roll of Honour unveiled in the Great Houghton Wesleyan Church.

March

4 – Bolton on Dearne Urban Council refused a licence for a municipal public house

8 – War Memorial Window dedicated in Thurnscoe Parish Church.

30 – Memorial Organ dedicated at Wath Parish Church.

April

2 – The Rev. F Scott Woolley of Belfast commenced duties as pastor at the Mexborough Free Christian Church

18 – Work resumed at Barnburgh Colliery for the new wages dispute which lasted 15 days.

May

8 – War Memorial Tablet unveiled in Lundhill Wesleyan Church.

27 – General election of Swinton Urban District Council, the first under the ward system.

31 – First fatal accident at Cadeby Colliery for four years (John Burns).

June

2 – Miss Margaret Watkin, Holly house, Darfield, married to Mr Montagu Thomas of Cardiff.

7 – Wath Rural Deanery Choir’s Festival revived. Service in Wombwell Parish Church.

30 – Retirement of J.W Hattersley, for 34 years clerk to the Mexborough local authority.