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Death of Queen Victoria
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 25 January 1901
Queen Victoria.
Queen Victoria is dead. The passing years' which short have told us that this great...
Marconigrams – August 01st, 1902
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 01 August 1902
Marconigrams
Kite flying is the favourite amusement of Mexborough boys just now.
The new Central Infants School at...
Colliery Fatality at Houghton – Mitchell Main Youth Killed.
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 12 September 1902
Colliery Fatality at Houghton
Mitchell Main Youth Killed.
A sad fatality occurred at Houghton Main Colliery on...
The Hull Coal Trade – Serious Decline of Traffic.
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 12 September 1902
The Hull Coal Trade.
Serious Decline of Traffic.
The official return dealing with the coal trade...
Marconigrams – September 12th, 1902
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 12 September 1902
Marconigrams.
The popularity of ping pong seems to be on the wane.
The boys of Mexboro have...
Houghton Labourer and His Abode.
Mexborough & Swinton Times - Friday 26 September 1902
Houghton Labourer and His Abode.
Thomas Hopkinson, labourer, Houghton Parva, was charged at the Barnsley Police Court,...
False Pretences at Houghton
Mexborough and Swinton Times, December 5, 1902
False Pretences at Houghton
Annie Birkett, single woman of Houghton Magna, was charged with having obtained the sum...
Fraud at Houghton Magna.
Mexborough and Swinton Times, December 12, 1902
Fraud at Houghton Magna.
At Leeds Assizes, on Saturday, Annie Birkitt (40), housekeeper, pleaded guilty to having obtained...
The Hull Coal Trade – 30,000 Tons Decrease
Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 06 April 1903
The Hull Coal Trade
A 30,000 Tons Decrease
The return furnished by the Hull Chamber of Commerce and Shipping...