Westminster Gazette – Thursday 23 November 1899
The Worst Village in England
Which is the worst village in England ?
The Christian Budget says it is Denaby Main, in South Yorkshire, and the description given of it does something to bear out the truth of the unenviable title
Contents of “Christian Budget”article repeated
Yorkshire Evening Post – Friday 24 November 1899
Denaby Main, which writer in the ” Christian Budget” the worst village in England, is mining village with about 8,000 inhabitants, situated some seven miles from Doncaster, on the way to Sheffield.
Yorkshire Evening Post – Tuesday 28 November 1899
An enterprising reporter who visited Denaby Main last Saturday expecting to find place a Pandemonium was agreeably disappointed.
It gave little evidence of being, as alleged, the ” worst village England.”
Millom Gazette – Friday 24 November 1899
Mr. Parrott strongly condemned an article in one of the religious papers representing the people of Denaby village, miners, as given to drinking and gambling, patrons of the pawnshop, and protested against such representations.
Hull Daily Mail – Friday 24 November 1899
Which is “the “worst village in “England?
“Christian Budget” says it is Denaby Main, in South Yorkshire.
Lancashire Evening Post – Friday 24 November 1899
Which is the worst village in England ? The Christian Budget says it is Denaby Main, in South Yorkshire, and the description given of it does something to bear out the truth of the unenviable title
Some Contents of Article repeated
Sheffield Independent – Friday 24 November 1899
From Near and Far.
A writer in the “Christian Rudget” gives a very bid account of the neighbouring viilase of Denaby Main, which he describes as “the worst- village in England.”
Repeats “Christian Budget” Article
In short Denaby Main with its ample work and wages, with its eight hours labour day, and with its delightful surrounding country, ought to be a paradise, seems, if the account given of it be correct, to come very near being a hell.”
What has Denaby Main to say to this ?