Conisborough Notes – Run Away – Farm Fire

September 1935

Conisborough Notes

Run Away

On Monday as Mr Henry Clark, greengrocer, New Hill, was driving a horse and dray along the Doncaster Road in the vicinity of Butterbusk, the shaft became detached from the dray through the slipping of a pin. The startle horse careered down the slope towards Warmsworth and at the crossroads turned up the Sprotborough Lane, where it finished its gallop at a fence on top of the quarries at Levitt Hagg.

A few more feet and it would have gone over the cliff, a drop of hundred feet. Had it been a few minutes later it would have encountered the children going home from the Sprotborough Road Council School Warmsworth.

A front wheel broke and this added to Mr Clarke’s worries, as a good deal of his wares were thrown onto the road. The horse required veterinary treatment for cut fetlocks caused by the dragged shaft otherwise it was not injured.

Farm Fire

Through the mist across the valley just before 7 o’clock on Tuesday morning, towards Conisborough Parks, flames could be seen it was obvious that a conflagration out of the ordinary was taking place at the Parks Farm.

It transpired that the biggest farm fire the district had no, destroying the labours of a year and the bumper harvest, the finest for 20 years

the Conisborough Flag Brigade did not attend as the fire was out of their area, and decor brought the Doncaster Brigade who found a tremendous job to tackle, certainly their greatest for many years.

The direction of the wind help to save the farm buildings, but Conisborough new something unusual was afoot for wisps of burning straw floated through the mist over the entire area

The occupier of the farm is Mr Richard Harrison, who resides at South Farm, Clifton, within sight of Parks Form which is an area of about 400 acres and the loss is estimated at over £3000