TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER NEAR DONCASTER. A terrible railway accident has occurred at Hexthorpe, which many lost their lives and a large number were more or less seriously injured. The facts are that a Midland Railway train from Sheffield, laden … Read More
THE ECHO AND TIMES, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1882 THE CRICH LANDSLIP. A great landslip took place on Thursday the west slops Crlch Cliff, Derbyshire For some time past the quarrying operations of the Clay Iron Company have relented … Read More
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. The colliery is about eight miles from Sheffield. Eight hundred … Read More
Lines on the death of Alfred Williamson who Lost his Life in a gallant attempt to save three children from drowning at Plumbley Colliery. March 16th, 1895 DEATH has been busy in our midst, And borne away a friend: And … Read More
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
6 November 2019 Crystal Peaks presentation and Rembrance Day information. 4 December 2019 Victorian Christmas -Talk by Helen Chambers in full period dress. 2020 January TBC 5 February 2020 Birley Bath House 4 March 2020 AGM Power Point Presentation … 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, I’m 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