After official notification had been received – that their 21 -year-old son. Pilot Officer Eric Plumtree. had been wounded while in action. Mr. and Mrs. Plumtree. of Plumbley Lane, Mosbro’ learned that he had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. … Read More
My scythe and hammer lie reclined My bellows too have lost their wind. My Iron is spent, My Steel is gone. My Scythes are set, my work is done, My fires extinct, my forge decayed My body in the dust … Read More
Betty was born on 3 January 1934 to Edna Netta and William Greaves, they lived next door but one to the Duke of William on Duke Street, then moved to 38 Elm Crescent when the evacuees came to Mosborough, next … Read More
Children murdered while asleep – Family Tragedy – Harrowing bedroom scene – Wife seriously injured. Husband commits suicide – Bowman’s life at Whittington Moor – His gambling speculations Special enquiries and interviews The unexpected happened at Mosbro’ on the … Read More
Sudden Death of Joseph Wells, Esq., Eckington Hall. It is with deep regret that we have to announce the death of Mr. Wells, which took place at his residence on Monday morning. It appears that until Thursday week he had … Read More
THE OAKS COLLIERY. Saturday December 12th, 1868 was the second anniversary the moat fatal colliery catastrophe known in the mining history of the world. Two years ago an explosion gas in the Oaks Colliery, near Barnsley, the most fiery mining … Read More
The Alma Inn at 78 South Street, Mosborough, shares its name with countless other pubs and inns in the local area in commemoration of the Battle of the Alma which took place on 20th September 1854; commonly regarded as the … Read More
MOSBOROUGH – USING THREATENING LANGUAGE On Monday at the Eckington Petty Sessions before Mr J F Swallow and L Butler-Bowden, Herbert Turner, farmer, Mosborough was summoned by Walter Rose his son-in-law of the same place, for using threatening language to … Read More
Ann Platts holding her son Leslie and Will Keable by her side. (1931) The Alma below when Freddie Trueman visited to celebrate the refurbishment, before he opened the Eckington Show. 1972/73 For last year, the pub was nominated November … Read More
Another of those alarming casualties which are so frequent in the coal mining districts occurred on Thursday at the Mosbro’ Moor (Silkstone Main) Colliery, Derbyshire the property of Messrs. Swallow. At about three o’clock in the afternoon a dense volume … Read More