PAST AND PRESENT OF THE TOWNSHIP OF MOSBRO IN THE PARISH OF ECKINGTON KNOWN BY THE NAME OF PLUMBLEY, MOSBRO GREEN, MOSBRO MOOR AND MOOR HOLE (according to Ancestry.com) MOSBOROUGH, a township in the parish of ECKINGTON, hundred of SCARSDALE, … Read More

Private Arnold Owen – 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards.  Regimental Service Number 15063.  Died 29 June 1916 Buried Essex Farm Cemetery, Ypres (Ieper), Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium.   Grave Reference II.M.27 The inscription says “BLESSED IS HE WHO GAVE HIS … Read More

George H Taylor was in the 22nd battalion Royal Fusiliers, (Kensington Palls Regiment) and he was sent immediately to the Kensington Palls Battalion.   In 1916 round about April time, the Regiment were at Vimy Ridge and at 8 O’clock … Read More

FRED ROTHERHAM Hi, Im Fred Rotherham I was born in Mosborough in 1927 (I’m one of dinosaurs), I lived in Cadman street, and in them days the street lighting was Gas, house lighting was gas or oil lamp or carbid … Read More

In 1905 George Foster, son of a Blacksmith published a small book of poems from his home in Cadman Street Mosbrough.  We reprint a few verses from his poem “the Village Sycamore”.  This ancient tree stood until the 1950’s opposite … Read More

Private William Walker 10TH Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). Regimental Number was 201263 and 3930.  Died  1 July 1917 at France and Flanders. Buried at Orchard Dump Cemetery, Arleux-en-Gohelle VIII. D.46. Arleux-en-Gohelle is a village on the main Arras … Read More