Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 15 April 1892
The Easter Week End
The railway station walls and the hoardings in this district are “alive” with excursion announcements to Conisborough, and tomorrow there will be an invasion by thousands of trippers—weather permitting!
Oh how we have to take that into consideration. What a difference the direction of the wind makes. How the canopy overhead may be blue or black according to the tactics of that of which we read
“The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth”
Well, we hope it will be a genial day in every way, and not like what we remember the 1891 Good Friday was meteorologically. Of course it is occurring a little later in the season this year, and that should make a material alteration.
The Primitive Methodists, as usual, provide a big tea, and the local Salvation Army corps are to be reinforced by from Sheffield, Tickhill, Mexborough etc.
The cyclists are expecting to turn out in good force in this neighbourhood, both on Friday and Monday. I am sorry the highway is not in better condition for them. In many places the stones lie thick and large and there are deep ruts, and unless riders are cautious they may easily get a spill. I have heard complaints from someone already who have traversed the course of the country in which the castle ruins stand frowning.
The Highway Board appear to only half do the work. Not withstanding the heavy rates that have to be paid.