Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 11 May 1883
Closing of Reading Room
The closing of the reading-room at Denaby Main is much to be regretted, but at the same time it is explained by the circumstance that colliers, as a rule, are not a reading community. Perhaps the success of the Denaby Main Cricket Club will also interfere with the progress of the educational institution.
The managers of the reading-room may be enabled to disseminate learning by the formation of a lending library in the village. It is to be deplored that such an excellent institution should be allowed to collapse through lack of support.
Nothing tends to create better feeling between employer and workman than the cultivation of literary tastes. By reading with a fixed purpose in view persons are apt to take broader views of things in general, and thus strikes and other deplorable occurrences would be almost matters of impossibility.