South Yorkshire Times – Friday 13 April 1934
Saving the Fowls
On Sunday evening the bell summoned the brigade to a fire in Lovers’ Lane, leading from Don View to the Minniemoor. A portion of the hedge was ignited and it was thought that there was danger to some fowl-houses in the quarry. In addition to the hedge a small wooden hut owned by Mr. I. Wroot, of Windmill Farm, was destroyed.
There were 26 fowls and 84 month-old chickens in the fowl-houses and whilst some way from the blaze, it was feared that suffocation from smoke might be their fate, so accordingly a number of women made a chain and passed buckets of water from a tank in a nearby field until this was exhausted.
There was little left for the brigade which soon ended the blaze. The cause of the outbreak is thought to be a bonfire lighted by boys.