Index
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1880
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Quarter 1 – January to March
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A Landlady and her Lodger at Denaby
Alleged Theft by Farm Servants
An Alarming Epidemic of Measles at Denaby
An Unhappy Married Couple at Denaby
Assaulting the Denaby Policeman
Conisborough Castle Football Challenge Cup – Conisborough 1 Doncaster 0
Important Meeting of Denaby Main Miners
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The 5% Question – the Sliding Scale – the Coming Prosperity.
Water Supply Startling Statements – Alleged deaths from Impure Water.
Outbreak of Measles – Water at Denaby
Service of Song at Conisborough – The Pilgrim Fathers
The Hunt – An Accident with a Donkey at Conisborough
The Hunt – An Exciting Chase
The Trickery of a Birmingham Traveller – Trapped at Conisborough
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A Stack Set on Fire by a Lad at Conisborough.
Allen and another v Bamford
An Aggravated Assault upon a Woman at Conisborough.
Castle Cricket Club Concert
Castle Ruins attracts Visitors by Boat and Waggonette
Conisborough Gas Company – Annual Meeting
Conisborough Glassblowers causing an Affray
Cruelty to Horses on Good Griday
Denaby Glittering Star C.C.
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04 April – Kilnhurst White Rose, Mexborough Red, White and Blue, Mexborough (seconds)
05 May – Altofts, Doncaster White Rose, Barnsley White Lily, Doncaster white Star
06 June – Denaby Main Red Rose, Swinton Wild Violet, Thrybergh Park
Determined to Break his Neck
Felony by a Lodger at Denaby.
Glassblower Brothers in Trouble at Conisborough
Good Friday at Conisborough
Irregularities in School Attendance at Conisbrough
Land and Property Sale
Rent Dinner at Denaby – Speeches on Agriculture and Local Questions
Sale of Conisborough Windmill
Shocking Fatality at Denaby Main – Joseph Stacey
Stealing corn at Conisborough.
The New Church, Cemetery and Reading Room at Denaby.
Unfriendly Conisbroites
Unhappy Married Couple at Denaby
Wesleyan Sunday School Anniversary.
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13 Year Old Lamp Cleaner fatally burned at Denaby
Accident at the Colliery – Run over by Tubs
Assaulting a Father at Conisborough Feast.
Conisborough C.C. – Well beaten by Mexborough
Conisborough Feast
Conisborough Fishmonger Drunk and Disorderly – No Appearance.
Conisborough Floral and Horticultural Show.
Conisborough Glassblower Drunk and Asleep in Hedge Bottom.
Conisborough Glassblowers After Potatoes.
Damaging Growing Grass
Death of Mr Thomas Henry Simpson.
Death of Oldest Inhabitant – The Man who escorted Sir Walter Scott
Denaby Glittering Star
Disorderly and Refusing to Quit Licensed Premises at Denaby.
Insulted by a Beggar at Cadeby – Prison for 21 days
Miner’s Trip – Liverpool and New Brighton
Sad Bathing Fatality at Conisborough
School Board Election – Notice on Church and Chapel Doors
School Board Election – Result
Singular Adventure on a Steam Yacht.
Stack Fire
The Claim for Wages by a Conisborough Farm Labourer.
The Fraud by a Commercial Traveller – Leeds Assizes
The Recent Application by the Denaby Main Colliery – The Economist
Theft of Money by a Denaby Collier.
Wesleyan Anniversary – Public Meeting and Children’s Games
Quarter 4 – October to December
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Accident at Pit on Day of Marriage
Bastardy Case from Conisborough.
Conisborough Castle
Conisborough School Board – Attendance Officer’s Salary
Denaby Colliery Close Down
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Dec 10 – Denaby Main Colliery – 800 Men and Boys under Notice.
Dec 10 – State of Affairs at Denaby Main Colliery – 800 hands under notice.
Dec 24 – The Crisis at Denaby Main Colliery – What is the Cause?
Doncaster v Conisborough – Conisborough Beaten for First Time
Floods – Conisborough Works under Water
Floods – Narrow Escape from Drowning at Denaby.
Floods – Serious Floods in the District.
Floods – The Colliery Flooded and the Railway Embankment in Danger.
Mexborough Victoria v Conisborough – “off side” dispute
Murderous Assault at Station Hotel
Murderous Assault at Station Hotel – Trial
Neglecting to Maintain a Wife at Conisborough
Notorious Character from Conisborough.
Outrage on the Highway
Quarrel over a Knurr and Spell Match at Conisborough.
Serious Accident at the Colliery
Strike at Denaby Main Colliery
Theft of Turnips at Conisborough.
Youthful Shepherdess – “Bo Peep” drove 20 Sheep to Sheffield
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Quarter 1 – January to March
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Assaulting a Miner and his Wife at Denaby.
Collier sent to Prison for Neglect of Family.
Colliery Accident. – Cage Conductor Broke
Colliery Accidents – Henry Poxon and Maurice Dunn
Conisborough Farm Labourer Assaulted.
Conisborough Horticultural Gardeners Society.
Conisborough Primitive Methodist Chapel Anniversary.
Conisborough School Board – Staff and Salary Reduction
Conisborough v Swinton Albion – Kicked a Goal to win the Match
Denaby Main C.C. – Election of Officers
Denaby Main Miners Strike
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Denaby Main Miners – The Men on Strike
Meeting – First – Meeting of the Men.
Meeting – Second Meeting
Meeting – Third Meeting
Drunkenness – P.C. takes Drunk in Wheelbarrow to Mexborough
Fatal Accident at the Colliery – 17 year old Thomas Dagnall
Fire Engine
Horticultural and Cottage Gardeners Association.
Library and Reading Room by G.E. Swithenbank
Shove Tuesday Football at Conisborough
Temperance Meeting.
The Storm
W Rice Oxley obtains degree at Oxford
Water v Alcohol – Wesleyan Band of Hope
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Alleged Murderous Assault at Conisborough.
Alleged Murderous Attack upon a Farmer at Conisborough.
Assaulting a Denaby Lad because he refused to sing.
Brutal Treatment of a Pony
Conisborough 4 Eastwood 2
Conisborough C.C.
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Jun 10 – Kilnhurst 136 Conisborough 51
Jun 24 – Greasborough 56 Conisborough 53 for 5
May 20 – Mexborough 66 Conisborough 38
May 6 – Conisborough 69 Aldwarke 50
Season’s Fixtures
Conisborough School Board
Denaby C.C.
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Apr 29 – Bethel Church 51 Denaby 57 for 6
Jun 17 – Denaby 44 Parkgate 5
Jun 24 – Wath Oil Mills 39 for 5 Denaby 51
May 5 – Mexborough 81 Denaby Main 101
May 5 – Thrybergh Park 63 Denaby 80
May 13 – Denaby 48 Attercliffe 32
May 20 – Denaby 168 v Doncaster White Star
May 27 – Denaby 89 Eastwood 24 – Rudkin 6 for 8
Season’s Fixtures
Denaby Library – Every neet
Drunkenness
Football Dispute – Doncaster v Conisborough
Good Friday
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Conisborough Public Houses – Police Raids
Drunk on Good Friday at Conisborough.
Drunk on Licensed Premises
Good Friday – More Drunkeness
Publicans Charged
Kilner Brothers win Order of Merit
Lady Like Proceedings at Conisborough.
Lively Proceedings at Conisborough
Methodist Anniversary
Proposed Reduction in the Miners Wages
Riots at the Denaby Main Colliery – Grave Allegations against Company.
Serious Charges against Collier
Suicide of a Young Woman at Conisborough.
Traction Engine on the Highway at Conisborough
Young Woman found Drowned in River
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Application for an Ejectment Warrant against a Denaby Miner
Conisborough Floral and Horticultural society
Damaging Mown Grass at Conisborough.
Denaby Main C.C. – Mexborough, Eastwood View and Kilnhurst
Drunk and Assaulting the Police at Conisborough.
Drunk and disorderly at Conisborough – “Taking the Village by Storm”
Fatal Colliery Accident – Michael Burke
Garden Robberies at Conisborough.
More Glassblowers in Trouble
Neglecting to send Children to school
Perilous Position of 16 Miners at Denaby.
Pony Drivers Dispute – Pit Stopped
Pony Drivers Dispute – Singular Proceedings.
Riotous proceedings at Conisborough.
Sale of Contents of Castle Inn, Building Materials, Carts, Pony and Fowls
Sale of Growing Grass
Shocking Accident at Denaby – Joseph Morgan
Stealing apples from an Orchard at Conisborough.
The Sports
Unlawfully Trespassing at Conisborough.
Wilful Damage of Gooseberry Trees at Conisborough.
Quarter 4 – October to December
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Alleged Indecent Assault
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Alleged Indecent Assault by a Certifed Colliery Manager at Denaby.
Outrage upon a Young Girl at Denaby.
York Assizes – The Alleged Criminal Assault
Caution to Owners of Cattle.
Conisborough News
Conisbrough Parish Church Harvest Festival.
Denaby Miner’s Inquest – James Shelton
Denaby Red Rose
Drunk in Charge of a Horse
Furnishing of the Ministers House – Wesleyan Methodism at Conisborough.
Married Ladies Falling Out at Conisbrough.
Mexborough Constable Assaulted by a Denaby Collier
Narrow Escape of the Denaby Main Colliery Manager.
Robbery of Eight Sheep at Conisbrough
Temperance and Evangelistic services.
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Fatality in Denaby Main – John Barker
Quarter 1 – January to March
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Charges of Stealing Eight Sheep.
Children’s Entertainment for Scripture Classes
Conisborough Farmer and his Servant.
Conisborough Wesleyan Sunday School Annual Tea.
Denaby “Corporal” attacked by Pony Drivers.
Denaby Colliers and the Game in the Wood.
Denaby Main C.C.
Disgraceful Proceedings in Conisborough Churchyard.
Drunk and Hell Fire
Farmer Assaults Servant at Conisborough
Followers of Bacchus
Infringement of the Highway Act at Conisborough
Married Woman “Lost” at Conisborough.
Mr Warburton on the Healthiness of Coal Mining
Parish Church Tea
Parish Meeting
Presentation to Mr Arthur Simpson, of Conisborough.
The Late Strike at Denaby – Claim for Goods Supplied
Travelling from Doncaster to Conisborough without a Ticket.
Whose was the Rabbit ?
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Fatal Accident at Denaby – Jas. Morris
Fatal Accident at Denaby – John Wall
Fatal Accident at Denaby – John Wood
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Interesting Presentation at Conisbrough – Mr Shutt
Outbreak of Smallpox at Denaby
Startling condition of affairs at Denaby Main
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Fatal Accident – Robert Pattison
Fatal Accident at Denaby – John Dagnall
Fatal Accident at Denaby – Thomas Green