January
January Stories include:
Charges of Stealing Eight Sheep.
Denaby Corporal attacked by Pony Drivers.
Denaby Colliers and the Game in the Wood.
Parish Church Tea
Whose was the Rabbit ?
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February
February Stories include:
Disgraceful Proceedings in Conisborough Churchyard.
Farmer Assaults Servant at Conisborough
Followers of Bacchus
Infringement of the Highway Act at Conisborough
Married Woman “Lost” at Conisborough.
Mr Warburton on the Healthiness of Coal Mining
Presentation to Mr Arthur Simpson, of Conisborough.
Travelling from Doncaster to Conisborough without a Ticket.
March
March Stories include:
Children’s Entertainment for Scripture Classes
Denaby Main C.C.
Drunk and Hell Fire
Parish Meeting
The Late Strike at Denaby – Claim for Goods Supplied
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April
April Stories include:
Conisborough Castle on Good Friday
Concert – Hark, Hark the Lark
Concert – It Makes a Man Feel Like a Fool
Concert – Within a Mile of Edinburgh Town
Denaby C.C. Concert
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May
May Stories include:
An Unhappy Daughter.
Assault with Spade
Cheating the Railway
Conisborough Households in Dispute – Charges Made
Mexborough 160 v Conisborough
Sale of freehold property
The Double D’s.
The Wounded Pony
Wath Oil Mills 37 Denaby Main 56
more
June
June Stories include:
Conisborough Funeral Society
Conisborough Households in Dispute – The family row.
Dense Smoke
The Pawned Watch.
Violent Denaby Miner
more
July
1882 July Articles include:
Alleged Robbery from a garden and the Colliery Thief
An Objectionable Traveller
Assaults and Violent Folk
Conisborough Feast
Conisborough Feast Time – Drunkards and fighters.
Go as you Please
On the Streets – Month in Wakefield
Sale of the Priory
August
1882 August Articles include:
An Early Tippler
Conisborough Show.
Is the Denaby Recreation Ground Private?
Sales of Castle Inn and Bone Mill
School Board – Primitive Methodist Charges and School Holidays
The Duke of Leeds Lodge of Oddfellows.
Visit of the Sheffield naturalists
September
1882 September Articles include:
Application for Licences – Conisborough and the Race Week
Conisborough Traction Engine Puffing.
Licensing Day – More beer for the Denaby men
Miners meeting at Denaby
Robbery in a Beanfield
Stabbing at a Farmer in Conisborough
Wesleyans Marry
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October
In October 1882 the Conisborough Parish Church
was adorned for the Harvest Festival
and presented with a New Memorial Clock for its Tower
There’s a dispute over a sovereign
and a homeless vagabond gets three months hard labour
for stealing Turnips
A Police Station is begun
and the Weslyan’s celebrate their Anniversary
November
In November the Primitive Methodists hold a concert
and we include utube videos of the vocals and tin whistle versions
A miner dies after a roof fall
and a young miner is sent to the house of correction
for whipping a pony
there’s a bazaar in Doncaster for the Church Restoration
and Weslyans organise an evenings entertainment
December
December 1882 began with the story of
an 18 year girl killed when two trains crossed
followed by the News of a New Railway Station
and a New Police Station is being built
and there’s proposals for a New Cemetery
There’s Certificates for the School Children
but Prison for a cruel Pony Driver
and the Sessions for two Brothers who ‘found’ a watch
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