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Alarming Accident at Wath Main Colliery.
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 20 April 1881
Alarming Accident at Wath Main Colliery.
Early yesterday morning as the miners were being lowered to their work...
In the Courts
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 19 January 1883
In the Courts
Wm. Rider, Denaby, for being drank and disorderly at Swinton on the 13th inst.,...
Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade In 1883.
Midland & Northern Coal & Iron Trades Gazette - Wednesday 09 January 1884
Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade In 1883.
During the month of December,...
Chronological Table of Principal Occurrences In 1883.
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 11 January 1884
Chronological Table of the Principal Occurrences in the District In 1883.
JANUARY
1.—A porter named Arthur Barber killed...
Alarming Fire at Winterwell.
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 13 June 1884
Alarming Fire at Winterwell.
About half past one on Saturday morning last, Mrs. Frankland, wife of...
Prize Fight at Wath
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 20 February 1885
Prize Fight at Wath
On Friday evening last a fight for a small sum took place...
A Terrible Tragedy – Wife Murder at Wombwell
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
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.
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...
Death of Mrs G.M. Coates of Wath
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 21 June 1887
Death of Mrs G.M. Coates of Wath
It is with the most profound regret that we record...