Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 23 July 1928

Tar Burns on Road. 

The whole of Thurnscoe was enshrouded in smoke between 3 and 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon,  when three barrels of tar, which had been  placed a piece of waste land near the side  of the road from Thurnscoe to Great Houghton,  in preparation for tar spraying, caught lire.

The road, houses and fields for about a mile  were completely enveloped in dense, black  smoke, and the residents Thurnscoe came  out into the streets showing considerable  alarm.

It thought that the tar was set on fire by a cigarette end or a lighted match dropped by passing pedestrian.

No damage was done and  the tar was left to burn out.