Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 20 June 1902
Denaby Main and the Coronation
Generous Gift of the Colliery Company
It is with pleasure that we announce that the Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries have decided to commemorate the Coronation by building a new Institute for their work people at a cost of something like £2,000.
The proposed building will be erected on a very central and convenient site; on a plot of land between the Rossington Street School and the large Hall.
This The news will have special interests of the committee and members of the present Institute, of the desires for a considerable time some more appropriate and commodious premises.
They commenced in a small way by utilising a portion of two cottages in Annerley Street. Later a billiard room was added, which, after time, to the inadequate, and another billiard room was built at considerable cost, but, now even further accommodation is required.
This generous offer and on the part of the company will more than fulfil the most sanguine expectations.
The present Institute consisting of a membership of between 100 and 200, contains two billiard rooms, bagatelle table, chess and draughts tables, reading room, and an excellent library of over 1300 volume, and has only an accommodation of four rooms to carry on the work.
Plans of the new building are now in course of preparation, and the following particulars supplied by the architect, Mr H.L.Smethurst, Conisborough:
Billiard room for three full size tables, size 4 6’ x 34, with raised platform the full length of one side 10 feet wide for seating purposes, and tables for small game etc.; a large room to be provided over the billiard room for the convenience of the library, also room for papers, periodicals and general reading. In another room is to be utilised for purposes of the Committee and other meetings; there are to be six slipper baths, each in separate compartments, supplied with hot and cold water and shower, for which it is intended to make the nominal charge of 2d per bath, with 1d except if the towel is supplied by the Institute; a large room is also provided for the use of Education classes, lectures etc. Lavatory accommodation is conveniently placed. There will also be combined with the building a caretaker’s house, with parlour, kitchen, back kitchen, pantry and three bedrooms etc.
the whole of the room, entrances and colleges at the beach with hot water, and a special boiler house is set apart for this purpose the supplying the bathroom. There will be two entrances to the building, one from Rossington Street and the other from Tickhill Street, this being convenient for both ends of the village.
Ample room is left all-round the premises for further extensions, and also for the addition in the way of gymnasium, quoit ground etc.
It will be thus seen that the Coronation will be commemorated in Denaby Main by the erection of a lasting monument for the benefit and general improvement of the inhabitants.