Ice Accident

December 1886

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, December 20, 1886

Ice Accident

On Saturday a large number of persons were skating on a large piece of land called the Pastures, near Denaby, which has lately become submerged with water.

A young man named Harry Kelman, a glass bottle worker, caught his foot in a twig, and falling broke his right arm in two places, also putting his shoulder out. He is being attended to by Mr Cranage, of Denaby.

Yesterday some hundreds visited the Pastures, and the banks were crowded with spectators, who were several times afforded amusement by the sudden immersion of the adventurous youths who had strayed on to a dangerous part of the ice.