Curious Carving at a Railway Station
We give an illustration of a curious carving, well-known by all travellers on the L. & Y. Branch Railway, Penistone to Huddersfield. The carving depicts an engine and train just emerging from a tunnel, the whole being surrounded by an arch resting on pillars. At the top of the arch [...]
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Curious Carving at a Railway Station
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Our Portrait Gallery
Our Portrait Gallery
Mr A C J Wilson, CC
Mr. Arthur Cobden Jordan Wilson, M.D., of Penistone, is the youngest son of the late Mr. George Wilson, the well-known advocate for the repeal of the Corn Laws, who was Chairman of the Anti-Corn League, and for several years acted as Chairman of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway [...]
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Deaths – Stocksbridge (1897 – 1898)
Stocksbridge
1897. OCTOBER,
1.. Elizabeth Taylor, Hunshelf Terrace, Stocksbridge, 68 years
4…Albert Elliott, Manchester Road, Stocksbridge, 5 years
4…Alice Dimmock, Manchester Road, Stocksbridge, 1 year
7…William Atkin, Hay wood Park,
Deepcar, 65 years
9 . Elizabeth Booth, Haywoods, Deep-car, 82 years
10…Ralph Jubb, Segholes Farm, Stocksbridge, 70 years
22 ..Martha Firth, Hunshelf, 61 years 26…Elizabeth Ibbotson, Haywoods. [...]
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Deaths – Thurgoland District (1897 – 1898)
Thurgoland Disctrict
1897. OCTOBER.
9…Mary Ann Booker, Thurgoland, 301 years
10…Olive Smith, Crane Moor, 18 years
NOVEMBER.
22 …Elizabeth Hague, Crane Moor, 63 years
1898. FEBRUARY.
10… Fred Hanson, Thurgoland, 7 months
11…Jessie Gandy Booker, Belmont Ter-
race, Thurgoland, 13 months
11 . Martha White, Thurgoland, 21 yrs.
MARCH.
28…John Haigh, Crane Moor, 82 years.
APRIL.
11…Joseph Williamson, Berry Moor, 82 years
MAY.
2…Ann Hawes, [...]
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Deaths – Scissitt District (1897 – 1898)
Scissitt District 1897
1897. OCTOBER.
28.. Elizabeth Peace, Scissett, 30 years
NOVEMBER.
6…Jane Caroline Crosland, Scissett, 60 years
13…Julia Auckland, Lower Cumber-worth, 66 years
DECEMBER
4…William Haigh, Denby Dale, 75 yrs.
20 ..Arthur Flack, Scissett, 17 months
1898. JANUARY.
29…Benjamin Norton, Nortonthorpe Hall, 58 years
FEBRUARY.
24…James Moseley, Scissett, 9 years
27…Eliza Robinson, Scissett, 56 years
MARCH.
20…John Oates, Scissett, 85 years
APRIL.
21 … Martha Tarbatt, Lower Cumber-worth, [...]
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Deaths – Denby Dale District (1897 – 1898)
Denby Dale District
1897. SEPTEMBER.
3…Herbert Ackroyd, Clayton West, 48 years
6…Mary Hanwell, Denby, 82 years
18…Jane Robins, Clayton West, 19 yrs.
19…Chas. Fretwell, Denby, 49 years
24…Elizabeth Tinker, Clayton West, 56 years
OCTOBER.
16…Geo Fredk. Sheard, Clayton West, 19 months
NOVEMBER.
1…Emma Exley, Clayton West,41 yrs.
10…Job Pell, Denby Dale, 7 months
29…Clemmy Haigh, Putting Hill, 64 years
DECEMBER.
3. .Martha Horn, Birdsedge Hill, 79 [...]
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Deaths – Penistone District (1897 – 1898)
Deaths – 1897
AUGUST.
28 John Proud, Bullhouse, 60 years
SEPTEMBER.
1 Wm. Mark Marshall, Kirkwood, 22 years
5 Benjamin Mitchell, Spring Vale, 70 years
11 John Tinker, Thurlstone, 71 years
13 Susannah Littlewood, Bangor Cottages, 51 years
15… George Chappell, Hoylandswaine, 40 years
15 Rhoda Goldthorpe, Catshaw, 78 yrs.
OCTOBER.
2 Geo. Hepplestone, Broad Oak, 78 years
14 Charles Cordon, Penistone, 63 years
30 Harry Champion, Penistone, [...]
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Marriages – 1898
1898
JANUARY.
5 -John Wordsworth to Miriam Smith, both of Thurgoland.
10 —Fred Hoyle to Martha Loukes, both of Thurgoland.
10—Fred Hoyle, of Whiteley Farm, Thurlstone, to Martha Loukes, of Ossett.
11 —Geo. Attrill to M. E. Evans, both of Langsett.
FEBRUARY.
1 —Charles Hartley Edmondson to Edith Vaughton, both of Penistone.
3—H. W. Horn to Emma Murgatroyd, both of Denby.
5—G. H. Faulkner [...]
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Principal Local and General Events (1897 – 1898)
1897
Oct. 10 — Accident to the London to Bradford through carriage, Penistone. Hannah Taylor, of Scissett, who was in the carriage, died a month later from injuries received.
Oct. 24 — Railway men’s demonstration and service at Netherfield Chapel. Proceeds, £7, were given to the Railway Orphan Fund.
Nov. 3 — Opening of new organ at Fox [...]
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Penistone and district voters at a county election in 1741
Last year we gave some particulars showing the part which Penistone electors took in the great contest of 1807, which it is said cost Earl Fitzwilliam and the Earl of Harewood each up-awards of £100,000.
Through the kindness of a friend we are able to show that even so early as 1741 Penistone [...]
