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
The following are various particulars connected with the last moments of this extraordinary man – Extract of a Private Letter, dated St. Helena, May 15. Bonaparte was buried on the 9th in the Sane Valley, a spot selected by … Read More
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, has it been gathered to his fathers. He died on Tuesday afternoon, Walmer Castle, after succession of epileptic fits. The decease of the greatest warrior of the age the hero of a hundred fights—cannot … Read More
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