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Drunk and Disorderly at West Melton

January 1881
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 07 January 1881 Drunk and Disorderly at West Melton Mark Hargreaves and Benjamin Newcombe, of West Melton, were charged with...

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...

South Yorkshire Collieries & Hull Coal Trade in 1881

January 1882
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 20 January 1882 The South Yorkshire Collieries and the Hull Coal Trade in 1881 The annual return relating to the...

Smashing a Lamp at Manvers Main Colliery

January 1882
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 13 January 1882 Smashing a Lamp at Manvers Main Colliery Wm. Breach, trammer, of Mexboro’, was summoned for a breach...

“Flare-up” in the “Cottage of Content,” West Melton

January 1882
Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 27 January 1882 A “Flare-up” in the “Cottage of Content,” West Melton A Corton Wood miner, named Frederick Nobles, was...

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

February 1883
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 10 February 1883 Hull and the Yorkshire Coal Trade From the official return of the quantity of coal sent into Hull...

Flooding

February 1883
Leeds Mercury – Tuesday 13 February 1883 Flooding The Don and Dearne have overflowed and flooded a large tract of land. The highways to several adjacent...

The Yorkshire Coal Traffic to Hull

March 1883
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 02 March 1883 The Yorkshire Coal Traffic to Hull The official returns of the quantity of coal sent from the South and...

Railway Traffic from Yorkshire Collieries to Hull

April 1883
Railway News – Saturday 14 April 1883 The Railway Traffic from the Yorkshire Collieries to Hull The quarterly return relating to the tonnage of coal transported...