Sheffield Independent – Wednesday 29 January 1890
Doncaster Highway Board and Denaby Roads.
Yesterday, at a meeting of the Lower Strafforth and Tickhill Highway Board, at Doncaster, a letter was read from Mr. W. H. Chambers, manager of the Denaby Main Colliery, drawing attention, on behalf of the company, to the state of the road there, and saying that, unless remedial measures were adopted, steps will be taken to legally enforce it, as pedestrians between Conisbrough and Denaby “had to wade ankle deep in liquid mud.”
The Chairman said the company had recently erected a large number of cottages at the place mentioned, and this had put their highway in a very bad state. What was wanted was a footpath about 700 yards in extent.
If the Denaby Main Company and Messrs. Kilner Brothers, glass bottle manufacturers, would supply the ashes for the path and do the carting, as he understood they would, then the work could easily be done, and their workpeople would be able to get to and from the places without being ankle deep in mud.
He had no recollection of a footpath having been there formerly.
Mr. Dunston moved, and Mr. Peace (Thorne) seconded, that the work be done as suggested.
An amendment that it be not done was lost, the chairman giving his casting vote for the motion.
The Floods at Conisborough.
The recent floods have so shaken the bridge spanning the water at Conisbro that train slacken speed.