Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Friday 23 May 1890
Colliery Extensions
Elsewhere, as Conisborough, antiquaries may have just cause for regret, and lovers of natural scenery may have a good excuse for rending their hearts as well as their garments over the sacrilege which is about to be committed.
There the lordly home of the Warrenes, the birthplace of at least one king, and the scene of the slaughter of noted Saxon chieftain, if legendary lore can be believed, is to frown in future over a couple of spinning pulley wheels, engaged in dragging to the surface the earth treasure which has lain concealed for ages.
The grey keep of kingly Coningsburgh, which has stood like a grim sentinel keeping watch and ward over the sluggish Don for century upon century, is to be blackened, begrimed, and blurred in order that the toiling masses may live.