South Yorkshire Times, October 14th 1944
Street Lights for Conisbrough
Council May Go in For Electricity
Conisbrough and Denaby may, after all, have modified main street lighting soon with a possibility of the installation of electric lights. The Highways Committee of Conisbrough Urban Council expressed in a minute of the September meeting the belief that modified lighting would retard the return to a normal system when that was allowed but, in a minute, presented at Wednesday’s meeting of the Council, the Chairman, Coun. G. Oldfield, presiding , the committee recommended that the surveyor, Mr. H. Thirlwall, should investigate the possibility of modified lighting along the main road from the boundary at Doncaster Road, Conisbrough, to the boundary at Denaby Main, and alternatively, of provision of gas lighting over the same area, using existing gas lamps. The information, when available, is to be dealt with at a special meeting of the committee, who will have power to act.
Mr. John Irad Webster, a former member of the Council, was on the proposition of the Chairman appointed representative for the North Ward to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Coun. A. Robinson.
Coun. R. H. Shephard, Chairman of the Highways Committee, promised that lights would be put on the streets as soon as possible. If the surveyor could do that before the special meeting, they were looking to him to do it.
Coun. Webster thought they were going too far with one thing and not far enough with another, they were catering for vehicular traffic on the main street, while the side streets were neglected.
Coun. D. Sheldon said that difficulties arose because they at Conisbrough had to deal not with one but with four lighting companies.
Instances of inconvenience and annoyance caused by local transport services were raised by a number of councillors, who were asked by the Chairman to report them after the meeting to the Clerk.