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Alarming Accident at Wath Main Colliery.

April 1881
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

January 1883
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.

January 1884
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.

January 1884
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.

June 1884
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

February 1885
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

March 1887
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

March 1887
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.

May 1887
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

June 1887
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...