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Imprisoned Miner – Release Hoped For Early This Morning

November 1928
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 10 November 1928 Imprisoned Miner. Release Hoped For Early This Morning. Thurnscoe Man’s Ordeal. Strenuous and unabating efforts were made rescue parties in...

Imprisoned Miner – Release Hoped For Early This Morning – Man’s Ordeal.

November 1928
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 10 November 1928 Imprisoned Miner. Release Hoped For Early This Morning. Thurnscoe Man’s Ordeal. Strenuous and unabating effort s were...

South Yorkshire Miner Rescued Unhurt – Entombed For 24 Hours.

November 1928
Leeds Mercury - Monday 12 November 1928 Entombed For 24 Hours. South Yorkshire Miner Rescued Unhurt. The miners of Hickleton Main Colliery had their doubts...

Town Hall Scheme – Rector’s Criticism of Thurnscoe Proposal.

November 1928
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 08 November 1928 Town Hall Scheme. Rector’s Criticism of Thurnscoe Proposal. A gloomy picture of Thurnscoe is painted by the...

’Bus Turns Over in Hedge Bottom – 17 Persons Taken to Hospital.

December 1928
Leeds Mercury - Monday 31 December 1928 ’Bus Turns Over in Hedge Bottom. Lucky Escape of the Driver. 17 Persons Taken to Hospital. The Great North...

Life for a Pony – Thurnscoe Pit Boy’s First Thought.

December 1928
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 15 December 1928 Life for a Pony Thurnscoe Pit Boy’s First Thought. Walter Clayton (14), of 22, Grange Crescent, Thurnscoe, who...

Thurnscoe Ploughing Annual Meeting

December 1928
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Friday 07 December 1928 Thurnscoe Ploughing. Good work was done at the 31st annual ploughing matches of the Thurnscoe Ploughing Society,...

£2 for German Gun

January 1929
Sheffield Independent - Wednesday 02 January 1929 £2 for German Gun The German memento gun which, for 10 years, has been in Thurnscoe Park, and which...

Boots From Distress Fund -Thurnscoe Rumour Emphatically Contradicted

January 1929
Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 16 January 1929 Boots From Distress Fund. A Thurnscoe Rumour Emphatically Contradicted At last night’s meeting of the Thurnscoe Urban District...

Concert Party’s Dilemma – Lost On The Way.

January 1929
Sheffield Independent - Monday 07 January 1929 Concert Party's Dilemma. The Abbeydale (Sheffield) Orchestra of more than 20 performers, had an uncomfortable journey visiting Thurnscoe...