Mexborough and Swinton Times, April 22nd, 1932
A Show Place
The District Council has made the interesting suggestion that the Travel Association of Great Britain should be asked to advertise Conisborough as a show-place. Conisborough, like all our South Yorkshire industrial centres, badly needs new industries and new avenues of employment. They are more necessary than trippers and tourists, but in the case of Conisborough there are these added possibilities of making an honest penny or two “on the side.”
Conisborough has always been a local object of interest and pride, and the Council’s decision to floodlight its great archaeological feature, the castle ruins, was a piece of shrewd advertising which reached further afield. The “holiday at home” movement may bring still more visitors, and the Travel Association can do Conisborough a great service by mentioning its “cute” old castle to Americans. The lord of the manor might even be invited to part with a bucketful or two of authentic Saxon rubble at collectors’ prices. The floodlighting suggests possibilities of pageantry which might bring a little fortune to Conisborough.
A midsummer carnival of history in the castle grounds with scenario based on “Ivanhoe” would draw crowds from far and wide.