South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 30 December 1922

Local Happenings

July

12 – Destructive fire at Goldthorpe, involving a garage and two charabancs.

12 – Mr F.E. Hall appointed clerk to the Mexborough Urban District Council.

17 – New price list accepted at Barnburgh Colliery.

18 – at Leeds Assizes, Horace Teanby and John Arthur Robinson, housing contractors, fined £200 each for frauds on the Bolton on Dearne Urban Council and the Hemsworth Rural District Council and others.

19 – Civil action by Mr Charles Hatton, of Castleford, for remuneration as supervisor of the Bolton on Dearne Councils brickworks, dismissed.

22 – Extensive strike of provincial printers, involving this paper, which nevertheless appeared continuously throughout the dispute, lasting a month.

29 – First of a series of conferences between representatives of employers and workmen, and the Management Committee of the Montagu Hospital, Mexborough, to discuss a scheme of enlargement.

30 – Wombwell War Memorial unveiled by Captain B.C. Vernon Wentworth.

August

3 – Mexborough and District Agricultural Society’s Inaugural show

7 – Bank holiday. Unprecedented brainstorm. Heavy floods in the Don and Dearne valleys.

25 – Mr Horace’s Flather journalist, formerly of the “Mexborough Times,” sailed for Cape Town to join the “Cape Argus”.

September

4 – Fire at New Don Glass Bottle Works, Mexborough.

18 – Miss Hilda Stephenson, of Darfield, married to Mr Gilbert Hirst, son of Mr G.H. Hirst, M.P.

22 – Yorkshire County Cricket team at Denaby Main.

25 – Lightning strike at Cortonwood colliery on account of the dismissal of a workman. Stoppage lasted two days.

October

4 – Wath Main scheme for pit head baths, under the Miners welfare fund was approved.

4 – County Court damages of £100 against the proprietors of the Mexborough Hippodrome, in connection with an accident to a performer at that theatre.

7 – Mr Basil Bower, clerk to the Swinton Urban Council, married to Miss Constance Peat, of Swinton.

6 – 7 Mexborough Musical Festival

12 – Disappearance of Amy Ibbotson, 19, of Darfield. Not heard of since.

23 – Presentation to Mr F.E. Harrop, for 26 years secretary of the Mexborough and District Sunday School Union.

25 – Explores at the benzol plant of the Mitchell Main Colliery. One man killed and three injured.

27 – Parliament dissolved.

November

1 – A Thurnscoe miner, Arthur Bridges, died from shock after being trapped and imprisoned in the Hickleton Main mine for 17 hours.

5 – War Memorial Chapel in St Alban’s Roman Catholic Church, Denaby Main, dedicated by the Bishop of Leeds.

11 – Mexborough War Memorial unveiled by Sir Alington Bewicke Copley.

12 – Arthur Thomas, aged eight, of Denaby Main, gave his life in a hopeless attempt to save his little brother from drowning in the canal at Mexborough.

15 – General Election. Local returns: – Don Valley, Mr Tom Williams (Labour).

18 – Sketch published in the “Times” of the Institute to be erected at Denaby Main under the Miners Welfare Scheme.

18 –Destructive farm fires at Billingley.

21 – Formation of the Mexborough Athletic Club under the Manvers Main scheme of the Miners Welfare Fund. The management committee of a similar organisation at Swinton under the same scheme was also formed.

24 – Charles Rose Currie, Butcher Leeds Assizes, Arthur Howarth (20), Mexborough, sentenced to 18 months, Arnold Bacon, Mexborough, to 21 months, and George Edward and John Alpine, of Denaby, to 9 months for housebreaking.

20 – Inquiry at Wath on Dearne in regard to the proposed amalgamation of the parishes of Wath and West Melton and the Council’s application for the division of the district into electoral Wards.

December

2 – The first male voice Musical Competition Festival, organised by the Mexborough and Swinton Railwaymen’s Choir, held at Mexborough.

10 – Destructive fire at the Hickleton Main Colliery. Serious and extensive damage to the headgear of number two shaft.

13 – Councillor Joseph Hall, Wombwell, found guilty of undue interference with the working and management of the Cortonwood Colliery, and removed from his position as check weighman by the West Riding magistrates at Rotherham.

14 – Memorial Tablet in the Station Road Schools, Conisbrough Mr T.R. Sellers, 20 years headmaster, unveiled by Mr John Brocklesby, J.P., chairman of the Conisbrough Urban Council.

14 – Presentations to police sergeant Lancaster, of Darfield on his retirement on completing 27 year’s service.