DEAR ANCESTOR
Your tombstone stands among the rest, Neglected and alone. The name and date are chiselled out, unpolished marble stone. It reaches out to all who cares. It is too late to mourn. You did not know that I exist, You … Read More
The History of the New Inn/Crown Inn/Hotel, Mosborough by John Rotherham April 2020
The Crown Inn, formerly the New Inn, Mosborough, traces its roots back to the Enclosure Movement of the Eighteenth Century. The site of the building, now demolished, fell within the manorial waste of the ancient Manor of Eckington in a … Read More
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 … Read More
A LICENSE FOR AN INN, ALE-HOUSE, OR VICTUALLING HOUSE – SYDNEY TAVERN
COUNTY OF DERBY TO WIT. NOTICE AND APPLICATION FOR A LICENSE FOR AN INN, ALE-HOUSE, OR VICTUALLING HOUSE – SYDNEY TAVERN To the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Eckington, in the County of Derby, to the … Read More
Camping Coach to Venice 1965 by Richard Hargate
This coach trip was attempted as amateurs to Continental travelling. No of us wanted to drive ourselves as this means that the one driving misses all the scenery, especially in the Alps, where all the breath-taking views are on the … Read More
Horrible Murder on Owlthorpe Hill by Roger Marsh 2018 © Copyright
To give this story historic context the events took place one year and 51 days before the death of Queen Victoria and 52 days after the start of the 2nd Boer War in South Africa. The story begins on … Read More
Shocking Murder Near Eckington – As reported in The Yorkshire Telegraph and Star Monday Evening, December 4, 1899
Shocking Murder Near Eckington – Woman Shot by Neighbour On Saturday evening, a shocking tragedy was enacted at Owlthorpe, near Mosborough. A miner named Christopher Taylor, having a fancied grievance against one of his neighbours, named Harry Bird, took … Read More
Woman Murdered in North-East Derbyshire – As reported in The Derbyshire Times, Saturday, December 9, 1899
A Miner Passionate Even to Madness – The Neighbourhood Terrorised Until Police Reinforcements Arrived Seldom in the annals of crime in Derbyshire has there been recorded a more dastardly, cold-blooded taking of life of a human being, than that which disturbed … Read More
Shocking Murder in North Derbyshire – As reported in The Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal, Saturday, December 9, 1899
Shocking Murder in North Derbyshire The village of Mosborough was the scene of a tragedy on Saturday evening, involving the instantaneous death of a woman named Bird. It appears that a man named Taylor residing in Owlthorpe, Mosborough, … Read More
The Mosborough Tragedy – As reported in The Nottingham Evening Post, Monday, February 26, 1900
Derbyshire Assizes The Lord Chief Justice (Lord Russell of Killowen) resumed to-day his trial of prisoners at Derbyshire Assizes. The Mosborough Tragedy Christopher Taylor, 43, collier, was brought up on an indictment charging him with the … Read More