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“THE MOSS”   We travel far and wide across the countryside, Strolling thro’ historic villages and quiet country parks. Wander by rivers fast flowing and wide And yet I will say – the river Moss is my pride.   It … Read More

Mosborough’s elevated location, at around 100m. above mean sea level means that the village was well suited for the establishment of windmills. At the Domesday survey, there was no mill in Mosborough, so local farmers were obliged to take their … Read More

Dane Balk, Mosborough by John Rotherham  February 2021   Dane Balk[1] is a site of relatively obscure historical/archaeological interest lying towards the south of Mosborough, straddling the Rotherham Road, between Eckington and Halfway. It was first recorded in a Nineteenth-Century … Read More

Mosbro’ Schoolboys’ Theft from Colliery Office. Two Mosbro’ school boys. John Batty and Harold Attenborough, were summoned before the Eckington magistrates on Monday. for stealing £3 5s. from the Streetfield Colliery Office, Mosbro’. The latter boy’s mother, Elisabeth Attenborough, was … Read More

COLLISION WITH AN ICEBERG – Great Liner’s Call for Assistance – PASSENGERS REPORTED DISEMBARKED – S.S. VIRGINIAN TO THE RESCUE The huge White Star liner ‘Titanic’, the largest vessel afloat, while on her maiden voyage to New ‘fork, about 10.30 … Read More

  WORLD WAR II MEMORIES by TOM STATON The Plane in Woolley’s Farm Field One day I was in the farmyard when a small plane very low came over, I expected it too crash, but it managed to get over … Read More

THE DERBYSHIRE TIMES, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1939 BODY IN DAM ECKINGTON – find ends search for Mosbro’ Man   A verdict of “Found drowned” was returned at the inquest at Eckington on Tuesday on Fred Moorcroft (39), unemployed, 9, Queen … Read More

NEVER FEAR DAM   This Dam was worked by the Haslam’s of Ridgeway. The story of how it got its strange name is best told in the poem by one of the local children.   “Working, working, always working trying … Read More

“MY GRAN”   She was my favourite relative; she was quite small and her shoulder were very rounded.  She had a very find face surrounded by soft white hair.  Her hands were small with fingers all crooked with arthritis, Gran … Read More

I used to really enjoy cleaning the “Yorkshire Range” which used to catch everyone’s in my kitchen.  Rising about seven in the morning, I would clean out all the dead ashes and lay paper, sticks and coal in the grate … Read More