Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 27 February 1931
Conisborough Cliff Caves
The caves in the Conisboro’ cliffs which for long have sheltered gypsy folk have been blown away, and the inhabitants scattered — intact but homeless.
For years they have been accustomed to camp in these old kilns and though it is said that they were a nuisance, their presence not been obvious to people being, the footpaths along the river hank, following the line of the cliff from Conisboro’ to Sprotboro’, and we have never heard that the police have had much trouble with them, though these nomads constituted a social problem which we shall always have with us somewhere, if not at Conisboro’.
All the gunpowder in the world would not blow them back into civilisation.