Diary of Charles W LEE 1781 – 1911, 10 Duke Street Mosborough

This Diary was copied from the original Diary of Charles  W Lee  born 1st March 1858 and died 14th September 1934 at the age of 76.  Derek Brunt/family re-wrote the diary and it was completed in the year 1963.   Thanks to Derek Brunt, for the loan of this diary and for letting me re-type it and publish it onto our website. –  (Linda Taylor nee Staton).  To see confirmation of some of the detailed items below, please click onto the highlighted link to read more.

The Severn Tunnel on the Great Western Railway is 4 miles 624 yards long.

 

July 9th 1781 – George Stevenson the engineer was born at Wylane Northumberland –

Bna © Barnsley Chronicle, etc. – Saturday 04 June 1864

 

 

 

Dec 29th 1809 – W E Gladstone born. 

 

 

June 18th 1815 – Battle of Waterloo   Click here for more info:

 

May 24th 1819 – Queen Victoria born. Click here for more info:

 

May 5th 1821 – Napoleon died at St Helena  Click here for more info:

Battle of Colelnso Dec 15th killed 82.  Wounded 667, missing 348 Total 1,097 Mndei “Buller

 

June 4th 1833 – General Wellesley born.  

 

 

 

 

Dec 22nd, 1845 – Woodhead Tunnel passed 5,300 yd long

 

July 18th 1848 – W.G. Grace born

 

 

 

 

 

Aug 12th 1848 – George Stevenson the engineer died at Tayton House Chesterfield.

 

Dec 24th1851 – Norfolk Market Hall opened at Sheffield

 

Sept 14th 1852 – Death of Duke of Wellington Aged 83.  Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, has it been gathered to his fathers. He died on Tuesday afternoon, Walmer Castle, after succession of epileptic fits. Click here for more info:

 

May 9th 1853 – Heavy fall of Snow in Derbyshire many sheep were starved to death on the moors

 

The average depth of the Atlantic 2 ¼ miles

The Bell at St Pauls weights 17 ½ tons
The Bell at Lincoln weights 5 ½ tons

Napoleons campaigns made, 1,000,000 French Widows and 3,000,000  Fatherless children

 

May 23rd1856 – Easter Sunday in fell on 1856

June 14th 1856 – William Palmer Surgeon hanged at Stafford, for poisoning Mr James Parson Cook, Sportsman.

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The highest Spire in England is Salisbury Cathedral 404 feet high

The fourth Bridge is the highest in the world.  It is one mile and 1.005 yards in length, and cost two million and a quarter sterling. Menai Bridge is 579 feet long and its roadway is 102 feet above single water.  Runcorn Bridge is 1,500 feet long and 95 feet above high-water level.

 

Sept 8th 1859 – Swallows Coal Pit fire.  Click here for more info:

April 9th 1864 – Largisson murdered Cooper at Rock Abbey.  Click here to read more:

March 11th 1864 – Bradfield Dam burst at a quarter to 12 (midnight).

 

Aug 13th 1868 – The last Public Execution was Michael Barrett at  the Old Bailey.  Click here to read more:

Dec 12th 1868 – Oaks Colliery Explosion 330 killed click here for more info:

 

Aug 4th 1870 – Mr Harry Lander born.

 

Jan 10th  1871 – Colliery explosion at Renishaw Park.

The clip below came from the British Newspaper Archives – Morning Advertiser – Thursday 12 January  1871

COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR SHEFFIELD. TWENTY-SEVEN MEN KILLED, ELEVEN INJURED

A terrible explosion took place on Tuesday night, near Sheffield. The scene of the accident is Renishaw Park, near Eckington, at the mine belonging to Messrs. J. and G. Wells.   Click here to read more :

 

July 13th 1872 – Voting by Ballot became Law  Click here to read more:

10th Aug 1872 – Act of Parliament compelling public Houses to be closed to be closed at 11 pm came into force.

 

Aug 4th, 1873 – Mrs Hudson murdered by her husband at Handley April 24th, 1873 Hanged Aug 4th, 1873.

Edinburgh Evening News – Wednesday 16 July 1873 Click here to read more:

Oct 6th 1873 – Mr Jas Wells, Eckington Hall died Click here to read more:

 

Feb 27th 1874 – Tichborne Trial ended.  Click here to read more:

 

1875 – King Edward/Prince of Wales came to Sheffield – Click here to read more:

Dec 21st 1875 – Harry Wainwright executed  – Click here to read more:

 

Dec 25th 1876 – William Hutton assaulted at Mosbro by Reg Taylor and PO Orme – Click here to read more:

 

Oct 20th 1877 Saturday – Opening of Eckington Market and feate. Ballroom ascent

 

Sept 3rd 1878 – The “Princess Alice” was returning from Sheerness when she collided with the “Hywell Castle”.

Sept 12th 1878 – Cleopatra Needle placed in position.  Click here to read more:

Sept 13th 1878 – The “Queens Shilling” in recruiting was discontinued 1878

 

To the South Africa War, we sent over 256,000 regulars and over 109,000 volunteers (of all kinds)

The Colonies sent over 83,000 men.

The two coldest hours of the day are 2.30 – 4.30 am.

 

Feb 25th 1879 – C Peace executed Shrove Tuesday  Click here to read more:

 

March 18th 1879 – William Habron released.  

RELEASE OF HABRON. A telegram received in Manchester to-day states that William Habron was ‘released from Portland Prison this morning, and was to meet in London by Mr. Deakin, in whose employment he was out the night of the murder which was innocently, convicted. Mr. Deakin will take him.

June 1st 1879 – Prince Louis Napoleon killed.


 

 

 

Dec 28th 1879 – Tay Bridge disaster Sunday night.  Click here to read more:

 

Feb 19th 1880 – John Coe was murdered at Treeton by John Wood of Whiston executed May 11th.  Click here to read more:

 

April. 19th 1881 – Earl of Beaconsfield died

 IN MEMORIAM

THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD. Died 19th  April, 1881.

Peace!” Peace with honour ” to the noble dead!

Now thou art gone detracting tongues will rest;

Thy worth, thy greatness, now will be confess;

Faction will droop, and Envy hide its head.

More patriotic statesman never led

In senatorial halls the hot debate,

Nor gave more arduous service to the State,

Nor greater lustre on its councils shed.

Many assume the patriot’s hallowed name

To cover scant allegiance to the Throne;

But Beaconsfield l combined patriot flame

With loyalty Devotion’s self might own :

A like to Queen and country ever true

                       Posterity shall own undying fame his due.               J. P.

 

Sept 20th 1881 – Alfred Gough Hawkes murdered Eleanor Windle at Brimington Click here to read more:

May 6th 1882 – Lord Te Cavendish Assassinated Click here to read more:

July 6th 1882 – Landslip at Crich. – Rutland Echo and Leicestershire Advertiser – Saturday 15 July 1882   A great landslip took place on Thursday the west slops Crlch Cliff, Derbyshire.  Click here for more info.

March 3rd 1883 – Carminells Works left Dronfield

July 24th 1883 – Capt. Webb Drowned at Niagara Falls July 24th 1883  Click here for more info:

Tuesday Sept 4th 1883 – Marwood the Hangman died at his residence.  Horncastle Lincolnshire on.  The last man he executed was James Barton, Sailor Durham Aug 1883. Click here to read more:

 

July 11th 1884 – Joseph Laycock murdered his wife and children at Whitecraft Sheffield   Click her to read more:

 

Oct 20th 1884 – Arthur Orton the Tickborne claimant was released from Pentonville Prison.  He served ten years and eight months of his sentence of 14 years. See:  Feb 27th 1874 – Tichborne Trial ended

Jan 26th 1885 – General Gordon killed at Kharthum.  

Penny Illustrated PaperSaturday 14 February 1885

 

 

 

 

Dec 25th 1885 – Man fell Knowle Hill Quarry  Click here to read more:

The Highest Mountain Mount Everest 29,002 ft

 

March 24th 1886 – Crooks murdered on the canal side.  Click here to read more:

June 27th 1886 – Went to Snake Inn

Aug 14th 1886 – Miss Mary Wells laid foundation stone for Mosbro Church Click here to read more :

Aug 23rd 1886 – WG George one mile record with W Cummings at Lillie Bridge London as never been beaten 4 mins 12 3/4 sec.

Sept 16th /19th 1886 – Went to Wirksworth Sept 16th came back on 19th 1886.

 

Oct 20th 1886 – Miss M A Wells married Mr Lucas

Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald – Saturday 23 October 1886

 

 

 

Nov 8th, 1886 – F Archer was born at Prestbury near Cheltenham Jan 11th 1852 died Nov 8th 1886.  He rode Athol Daisy, his first winner on the flat at Chesterfield, Sept 28th 1870 and altogether had the mount on 2,748 winners his last being on Lord Falmouth’s Blanch land in the Houghton Stakes at the New Market Oct meeting 1886.  His final mount a loser was Tommy Tittlemouse in the Castle Plate at Lewes Nov 4th the same year in 1885 he rode 246 winners died Nov 8th, 1886.

 

Nov 23rd 1886 – Sir George Sitwell married Nov 23rd 1886 

 

 

 

Nov 29th 1886 – James Marjsly (Murphy) executed.

 

EXECUTION OF THE DODWORTH MURDERER. THIS DAY. James Murphy, miner, was hanged at York, this morning, for the murder of Police-constable Austwick, at Dodworth, near last July, The culprit slept well, and observed to the executioner, on the scaffold, “Put the rope right, old boy; don’t be nervous.” Death was instantaneous. The culprit who met his death coolly had a somewhat remarkable criminal experience. Murphy had an old grudge against Police constable Austwick and seeing him the street one night he went Indoors, fetched a poacher’s gun, and shot him dead. After that he escaped and was at large. At length, the police tracked him to his lair, the house of a relative, and an went upstairs to arrest him. Murphy kept him bay with his gun, jumped out of the window, fired a shot, and again escaped. He was, however, only a short time longer at liberty, and was at length taken, being footsore end starved. After his conviction he displayed not the slightest compunction, telling his sorrowing relatives with a nonchalant air that he could only die once.”

BNA  Derby Daily Telegraph – Monday 29 November 1886

Jan 19th 1887 – W Bull died at Eckington.

March 24th 1887 – W Haywood (blind) died

April 11th 1887 – Went to Lathkilldale.

June 22nd 1887 – Mr W C Long knighted.

August 7th 1887 – Drivers and Stokers Strikes on the Midland Railway Click here to read more:

Sept 16th 1887 – Railway accident at Hexthorpe near Doncaster Friday 25 killed.

THE HEXTHORPE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.  On Tuesday the County Coroner (Mr. Nicholson) resumed the inquiry respecting the railway accident at Hexthorpe.  Click here to read more:

 

Nov 11th 1887 – Lord Egerton of Tatton cut the first sod of Manchester Ships Canal 

St James’s Gazette – Saturday 12 November 1887 © BNA

 

 

 

 

Nov 29th 1887 – Mr W E Wells died Tuesday Interred Dec 3rd Saturday aged 47.  Click here to read more:

 

April 3rd 1888 – The first Whitechapel Murder was a woman named Smith. The Last Nov 9th, 1888.

BNA©Worcestershire ChronicleSaturday 26 December 1896

 

 

 

 

 

 

The highest chimney stack in Great British is in Port Hundas Glasgow.

J Singlass won £57,455 a second J Jonovan won more than any other horse in one year £38,666

 

Jan 13th 1889 – W Cropper Footballer killed. Click here to read more:

Jan 15th, 1889 – County Council Election – Eckington W E Wells 1st, Locke 2nd,  Mosbro Swallow 1st, Nixon 2nd

 

Feb 27th 1889 – The Rev Hare left Mosbro  –

Bna © Sheffield Daily TelegraphWednesday 27 February 1889

 

 

March 27th 1889 – John Bright died

 

 

 

June 11th, 1889 – Duke of Portland married Born

Aug 7th 1889 – Mrs Maybrick convicted  Click here to read more:

Aug 9th 1889 – Madame Enault left Sheffield

Aug 24th 1889 – Went to Llandudno Aug 24th 1889

 

March 4th 1890 – Opening of the Forth Railway Bridge Click here to read more:

May 18th 1890 – Went to Higham and Ashover

May 27th 1890 – Walked to Haxilby

Aug 3rd, 1890 – W French murdered his wife at Balbro Sunday at 1 am Click here to read more:

The price of 32 nails the first to cost a farthing, the second a halfpenny and so on would amount to

4,473,924. 53 3/4d

 

The Deepest colliery in England is the Moss near Ashton under Lyne 2,820 feet deep at present


March 9th 1891 – Went to Bonsall to Flit Turner Policeman.

May 1891 – Heavy fall of Snow at Mosbro on Sunday and Saturday.

July 25th 1891 – Noble Policeman left Mosbro.

 

The longest River is the Nile 5,000 miles long, Next the Amazon 3,750 miles

 

March 12th 1892 – 300/000 Miners ceased work to clear of surplus stocks resumed March 21st.

 

Feb 16th1893 – Edward Hemmings Heemorsongs murdered his wife at Woodhouse.

 

A terrible tragedy, says a Sheffield correspondent, was enacted this morning at Woodhouse Mill, five miles from Sheffield.  A collier named Edward Hemming at about three o’clock cut his young wife’s throat in so terrible a manner that she died almost immediately.  The pair had quarrelled frequently.  Hemming having accused his wife of unfaithfulness and extravagance.  Several lodgers were aroused by the woman’s screams.  Hemming shouted that all was right.

 

Another telegram says: – Annie Hemming’s wife of a collier, was brutally murdered in her bedroom this morning which was her 21st birthday at Woodhouse Sheffield.  She was found with her throat cut and head nearly severed, and forehead battered in.  There must have been a serious struggle as several of the woman’s fingers were nearly cut off and all the furniture in the room bespattered with blood.  A razor, an axe and a pair of clogs were discovered in the fire.  The husband has disappeared.

 

May 22nd 1893 – Walked to Grantham on Whit-Monday

July 28th 1893 – Coal strike began.   Click here to read more:

Nov 17th 1893 – Great strike of Coal Miners commencing July 28th.  Click here to read more:

 

Feb 28th 1894 – Death of Madam Patey after singing at Albert Hall Sheffield  Click here to read more:

Nov 1894 – Sarah Ann Lee married at Sheffield

Dec 30th 1894 – The frost began on. Broke on Jan 14th 1895 and returned on Jan 21st remaining till March 5th, this included the seventh February known in England.

 

Jan 29TH 1895 – Whittington Church burnt.  Click here to read more:

 

Jan 24th 1895 – Lord Churchill died

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feb 8th 1895 – Coldest day on Record for frost Feb 8th, 1895 9o below zero in Yorkshire

March 11th 1895 – Duke of York at Sheffield

 His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, in replying, said: Mr Mayor, Alderman, and Burgesses of the borough of

Sheffield, I thank you cordially for the hearty welcome you have offered to the Princess and myself on our arrival in your town. I can assure you that it is with the greatest satisfaction that we have availed ourselves of the opportunity afforded by the munificent act of your Mayor to visit it.  Nothing was wanting to convince me of the loyalty of the inhabitants towards the Queen and attachment towards the member of her family.  The reputation which your ancient borough has long borne throughout the world for its peculiar manufactures, the wealth which has been the result of its exertions, and the prosperity which has accrued to yourselves and to the great commercial empire of which we form a part, could not fail to interest sensible of your good wishes on behalf of the Princess and our children:  and in the temporary absence I am about to make, that I may become better acquainted with the resources and history of our Indian empire, your earnest prayers for my safe return will often recur to my mind with feelings of grateful recollection.  The move and seconder of the address were then present to the Prince and Princess.

 

March 16th 1895 – 4 drowned at Plumbley Pit Pond.   –  A most lamentable affair took place on the Plumbley Colliery premises, belonging to Messrs. J. and G. Wells, Limited, on Saturday evening, whereby four persons lost their lives.  Click here to read more:

June 11th 1895 – Whitby Policeman left Mosbro

June 26th 1895 – Wreck of the Albe 370 drowned

July 16th 1895 – A Mc Laren 424 runs Lancashire against Somerset

Nov 3rd 1895 – Me and Arthur walked to Baslow and back on Sunday


 

Nov 4th 1895 – Opening of the Empire Palace Sheffield.

Sheffield Daily TelegraphSaturday 09 November 1895

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jan 20th 1896 – Joe Acton died.

March 16th 1896 – Mark Turner sentenced to 7 years on Sunday

ASSIZE CASE FROM SWALLOW NEST  The West Riding Assizes yesterday, Mark Turner, collier, was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude for unlawful assault upon Maria Bird (24), Swallow Nest, December 27. Mr. Hamilton prosecuted; Mr. C. Mellor (instructed by Mr. A. Muir Wilson) was for the defence.  Sheffield Daily Telegraph Tuesday  March 17th 1896

May 3rd 1896 – Me and Arthur walked to Baslow

May 9th 1896 William Pugh murdered Anne Boot at Blackenfield Derbyshire.  Click here to read more:

or go to BNA Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald – Saturday 16 May 1896 to read the full article below:

BRUTAL MURDER AT BRACKENFIELD. YOUNG GIRL ENTICED INTO BARN AND KILLED. HER HEAD NEARLY CUT OFF WITH A BILLHOOK. HOW THE QUARREL AROSE. YOUNG COLLIER CHARGED WITH THE CRIME. HIS LANDLORD DESTROYS A BLOOD-STAINED SHIRT. August 5th 1896 – William Hanged

 

June 1896 – Hannah Lee married at Mosbro

 

 

 

Nov 11th 1896 – William Cadman killed at Holbrook Pit.

 

 

 

 

3rd October 1896- Whittington Church reopened after being burnt down 1895 (inserted by L Taylor)  Click here to read more:

Oct 20th 1896 – George Bird killed at Holbrook Pit.  Click here to read more:

Nov 5th 1896 – Brewen Grant died.

 

London to Melbourne by sea 14,000 miles

 

Jan 24th 1897 – Bolsover Church burnt down

 

One of the most ancient churches in Derbyshire, that dedicated to Saints Mary and Lawrence at Bolsover, near Chesterfield, was destroyed by fire on Sunday.  The church was on of historic character and a chapel attached to it, which was the only portion of the edifice saved, has been the burial place of the Cavendish family for generations.  The fire is believed to have been due to the heating apparatus having set the vestry flooring burning.

BNA © Leeds TimesSaturday 30 January 1897

 

Friday 1897 – The Queen at Sheffield is open new Town Hall, 7,000 children sang in Norfolk Park.  Click here to read more:

June 30th 1897 – Me and Arthur went to Edale from Sheffield by train, then walked to Hayfield 9 Miles, then to Snake Inn 6 miles then to Horse 7 miles.

April 22nd 1898  – The war between the United States and Spain
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June 13th 1898 – Barnum and Baileys Great Show came to Sheffield (first time).  Click here to read more:

July 1st 1898 – The Workman’s Compensation Act came into force

 

Aug 3rd 1898 – Hugh Rodgers cut his throat in Church Row, Eckington

Sheffield Independent – Thursday 04 August 1898

 

 

Aug  10th 1898 – Release of David Pilmore who was convicted for the murder of a keeper named Copley 10 years ago

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Sept 2nd 1898 – Battle of Omdurman.

 A FULL PRIVATE ON “PURE BUTCHERY,”

In letter to his friends at Heywood, dated September 5th, from Khartoum, Private J. Carruthers, B. Company, 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers, who took part in the battle of Omdurman, writes : “Dear Father and Mother, I very glad to tell you I came out of the battle all right. And it was a battle too. It was nothing but pure butchery, the way we killed them.

 

There were 30,000 of them killed, besides a lot wounded. It was horrible to see them and it made me sick. About 60,000 attacked us, and their yells sent the fear of God through me. I was a little bit frightened at first, but I was all right in about a minute, and then I got settled down to it. And then we did give it them. They were four to our one, but we shifted them. We had a good five and a half hour’s of  fighting and it was terribly hot, and we had no water. We kept on chasing them over the desert. Then, at night, we marched into just opposite to Khartoum, and slept there. Next day we went and held a burial service over Gordon’s grave, and we fetched two big guns from there. There were only 106 killed and wounded of British troops. I got hit twice with spent bullets, but they did not hurt me. It was a grand battle. We were in the thick of it all the time.”

 

Nov 29th 1898 – Mr W E Wells died Tuesday, Interred Dec 3rd Saturday aged 47  Click here to read more:

 

Colonel Burnaby was Killed at “Albu Kled”

 

When Marshall Bazaine surrendered at “Metz” to the Germans he had with him two other Marshall, 60 Generals, 6,00 Officers and 173,000 men.

 

Dec 25th 1899 – Superintendent Faukner left Eckington.

 

The Severn Tunnel on the Great Western Railway is 4 miles 624 yards long.

 

Jan 25th, 1900 – Mr Davies was murdered at Crew by his on Jan 25th, 1900.  Richard Davies aged 19 was executed on April 8th, 1900.  George aged 16 was rederived and sentenced for life  Click here to read more:

Feb 10th 1900 – The Mosbro nurse died.

February 23rd 1900 – The Charlesworth’s sentenced at Derby February 23rd 1900 to 5 years, the terms reduced after to 3 years Feb 25th1900.

Feb 26th 1900 – Chris Taylor sent 5 years for shooting Mrs Harry Bird at Mosbro.  Click here to read more:

Mar 1st 1900 – Ladysmith relived by J Jundonald

Nov 5th 1900 – Mrs Acton died aged 64.

 

The highest individual aggregate of runs 3.309 by R Abel 1901.

 

Jan 16th 1901 – Mr R Davies School Master died aged 81. Click here to read more:

Jan 22nd 1901 – The Queen died at 6.30 pm aged 81.  Click here to read more:

 

Jan 30th1902 – The treaty of alliance between Britain and Japan was signed on by Lord Lansdowne and Viscount Hayasim

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May 20th 1902 – Miss Brookes killed at Sheffield Whit Tuesday.  Click here to read more:

July 17th 1902 – Hobbs shooting case at Eckington.  Click here to read more:

 

Feb 20th 1903 – Sheffield was made a city.

March 15th 1903 – William Lockwood died aged 51.

March 18th 1903 – Mr Booth’s Chimney dropped

March 24th 1903 – Mr Hewitt and William Keeton died

March 25th 1903 – Major Gen Hector Macdonald born 1854 shot himself in Paris interred in Scotland.

April 2nd, 1903. – Mr C W Alderson killed while hunting near Carberton Click here to read more:

 

A Knot or nautical mile is 6,080 feet a mile on Caud is 4,280 feet

 

Jan 12th 1904 – My father Henry Lee died aged 76 –  Born Jan 16th, 1827 interred on his 77th Birthday

Feb 19th 1904 – The fire at Park Mill

May 9th 1904 – Joe Bowman murdered his two children and committed suicide at 50 High Street, Mosbro. Click here to read more:


Kinesem the racehorse holds the record, winning 54 successive races.

About 400,000 British Soldiers were dispatched to the war in South Africa but about 250,000 were

in the field at one time.

 

Basaine was tried and condemned to death for surrendering at Metz but the sentence was commuted to 20 yrs.

The deepest coal pit in England is “Pendleton” near Manchester which is 3,483 ft.

 

In Staffordshire there is one 3,400 the next is the “Moss” colliery at Ashton under Lyne which is 3,000 ft.

 

112,000 spades full, 840 tons of soil to 1 acre of Land.

 

The Longest Bridge in the World is over the St Lawrence it spams 9,144 ft.

 

April 11th 1905 – John Grant died

Dec 10th 1905 – Mr Fidler builder died at Eckington aged 67. Click here to read more:

 

Dec 24th 1905 – G H Wells died aged 53.  

FUNERAL OF MR. G. H. WELLS ECKINGTON.

The funeral of Mr. George Henry Wells, Reading, formerly of Hohenlinden. Eckington took place at

Eckington yesterday afternoon. The body was brought train from Reading to the Great Central Railway Station, Sheffield, and conveyed in hearse to the Eckington Wesleyan Chapel, where a service was held. The chapel was filled, and many were unable to gain admission. The Rev. W. T. Derry, of Leicester, formerly minister at Eckington, officiated, assisted by the Rev. F. F. Hooper Labbett, the resident minister. The principal mourners were:—’Masters Norman Wells and Douglas Wells (sons), Mr. Fred Arthur Wells (Sheffield).  Alfred Ernest Wells (Rotherham). Mr. Herbert Charles Wells (London), brothers; Mr. Arthur Wells (Sheffield), nephew; Mr. Fred Barber (Eckington). uncle; Mr. George Barber (Eckington), Mr. F. A. Walker (Chesterfield). Dr. Crookes (Eckington). Mr. J. H. Wells (Eckington Hall), cousins; and Dr. West Jones (Eckington). Mr. George Arthur “Ward Wells (Eckington) was absent through indisposition. Representatives of the Eckington Wesleyan Church and Sunday School, choir, public bodies, and many other friends joined the procession.

 

April 10th 1906 – Harry Walters was hung at Wakefield. The first that took place in that city.   Click here to read more:

 

June 9th 1907 – My mother died

 

There are 3,882,851 acres in Yorkshire and 3,566, 480 letters in the Bible.

The average height of an English man is 5ft 7 ½ ins

 

Dec 19th, 1907 – John Lee who they didn’t hang released Committed Nov 15th, 1884 reprieved Feb 23rd 1885

 

The Duke of Devonshire owns 1,671,168 acres

The Duke of Sutherland owns 1,358.600 acres

London to Melbourne by sea 14,000 miles

The “Cat and Fiddle” at Buxton is said to be the highest Public House in England.

The smallest Counties in the British Isle are:  Clackmannan 30.479 acres, Kinross 46.485 acres

Flint 73.380, Rutland 110.190 acres

 

Jan 1st 1908 – Frank Levicks accident at football Died Feb 1st Click here to read more:

 

Jan 22nd 1908 – Fred Poole killed at Holbrook.

HOLBROOK COLLIERY FATALITY inquest was held yesterday by Dr. A. Green, Coroner, on the body of Fred Poole, a miner (39), who resides! at 47, Queen Street, Mosborough, and who was killed the previous Wednesday morning at the No. 4 Drift Pit the Holbrook Colliery. Albert Jackson, of 36, Palmer Street, Halfway, who was working along with the deceased in a stall at the time of the accident, said a heavy fall of coal and dirt knocked them both down. It fell in one piece, and weighed over three tons, and completely buried the deceased in a doubled-up position. Plenty assistance was forthcoming, but it was three quarter of hour before they extricated him, the coal had to be broken up. Poole was terribly injured, and death must have been instantaneous. In answer to the Assistant Inspector of Mines (Mr. Hepplewhite, Nottingham), witness said it was a natural rock break, and the accident was certainly unavoidable. The jury returned a verdict of “Accidental death”.

Feb 29th 1908 – John Holmes hanged himself at Eckington School Click here to read more:

March 3rd 1908 – Harry Fairey interred.

Sunday July 5th 1908 – Ida Gilliver killed by Morter Cox at Mosbro

Dec 15th, 1908 – James Hughes died aged 68.

 

Feb 23rd 1910 The Charlesworth’s sentenced at Derby to 5 years, the terms reduced after to 3 years on Feb 25th 1910

 

SENTENCES REDUCED. THE CHARLESWORTH CASE. The sentences Violet Charlesworth and mother were reduced from five years to three years’ penal servitude at Derby Assizes.   Mr Justice Darling said the prisoners convicted of two charges in indictment conspiracy to defraud and obtaining money by false pretences. The sentence he passed was simply upon the indictment for false pretences because an indictment for conspiracy would not justify a sentence of penal servitude, but only a sentence of two years’ imprisonment, and as no judge would think of ordering a person to undergo imprisonment after being penal servitude or vice versa, and as two such sentences could not possibly served concurrently, he had awarded no punishment for the conspiracy.

 

One reason why he had reconsidered the sentence was that it was the maximum for false pretences, and it occurred to him there were circumstances in the case which rendered it inadvisable to inflict the maximum punishment.

Violet Charlesworth might have gone into the witness-box and given evidence oath, and had she denied the charges would undoubtedly have committed perjury. He desired when he could to recognise as an ameliorating circumstance the fact that the prisoner did not commit wilful perjury.

 

Another matter that induced him to reflect upon the sentence was that Violet Charlesworth’s conviction was largely due the fact that in bankruptcy she did tell the truth about great matters, and so enabled proof to given of acts necessary to convict he.  With regard her mother, he should pass the same sentence. It had come to his knowledge that she was suffering from grave illness. and although she would, of course, pass her time in the infirmary, in all the circumstances did not feel inclined to make a differentiation against her.

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Nov 23rd 1910 – The Crysyson executed.

Jan 4th, 1911 – The last stand of the Houndsdick murders took place.  Their victims having met their untimely fate 17 days earlier.

Londonderry SentinelThursday 05 January 1911

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 6th 1911 – Harry Marples died

June 6th 1911 – Me, John and Herbert went to Matlock, and Wirksworth

June 10th 1911 – Arthur Barker died

 

 

April 14 / 15th 1912 – The Titanic struck Iceberg on Sunday night at 10.30, sank on at 2 on Monday morning by14 and 15th 1912.  Click here to read more:

 

 

 

 

 

November 15th 1912 – The Rotherham murder of the two girls. Walter Sykes executed at Wakefield April 23rd, 1913

Execution of Rotherham Murderer . —Walter Sykes ( 24 ) , labourer , was executed at Wakefield Jail yesterday morning for the murder of two little girls at Rotherham on November-15 . The children’s throats had been cut with a penknife. Sykes confessed to the crime but during the trial said he had made a false statement.

 

June 29th 1913 – Mr Limbe died.

My watch no is 11494.

July 13 – 14th 1913. – The violent Thunder storm

Dec 11th, 1913. – The Liverpool sack murder – Click here to read more:

 

Feb 13th 1914 – Percy Clayton sentenced 5 years for shooting Mrs W Parsons on June 30th, 1913. Click here to read more:

Monday Feb 16th 1914 – The new Eckington Picture House opened Click here to read more:

Feb 26th 1914 – Wainwright of Holbrook shot himself. Click here to read more:

Opened shops No 12 Church Street March 9th at Eckington.

February 26th 1914 – Ball or Sumnor hung on this day.  Samuel Angeles Elltoft was sentenced to 4 years psomal sorritude as accessory after the fact.  Click here to read more:

Photographs of C W LEE

       

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