By Michael Upton on Thu 27 Jan 2022
STUDENTS received royal approval for their “tremendously heartening” efforts to honour and remember Holocaust victims.
By Gareth Dennison on Tue 21 Dec 2021
A CRY of “the bailiffs are coming” in working class parts of 19th century Rotherham was enough to bring out a crowd intent on hindering their work.
By Gareth Dennison on Mon 13 Dec 2021
WILLIAM Rushton had been working nights at the Parkgate Iron and Steel Works and was home in bed on the morning of January 6, 1865.
By Gareth Dennison on Thu 09 Dec 2021
KEPPEL’S Column has been shrouded in scaffolding as a near-£500,000 restoration project gets under way to reopen the 18th century folly to the public.
By Gareth Dennison on Wed 01 Dec 2021
MINING engineer John Fretwell Thompson attended the scene after a massive explosion at Warren Vale Colliery killed 23 and injured seven in November, 1874.
By Michael Upton on Fri 26 Nov 2021
ARCHAEOLOGIST Alex Sotheran is the special guest for a history group’s next open meeting.
By Gareth Dennison on Tue 23 Nov 2021
SOME 18,000 items from Rotherham Archives feature in a new digital collection which will eventually hold more than two million pieces.
By Gareth Dennison on Mon 22 Nov 2021
JEWELLER and pawnbroker Albert Bibbs — nicknamed Rotherham’s Golden Balls — began his business on Church Street in 1851.
By Admin on Fri 19 Nov 2021
THE Vicar of Rotherham hailed the attendance and enthusiasm for Rotherham’s all-outdoor Remember Day commemorations.
By Gareth Dennison on Mon 15 Nov 2021
KENNETH Perkin had no previous military ambition but — when war broke out — he was among thousands who immediately knew their duty and rushed to do it.
By Gareth Dennison on Thu 28 Oct 2021
IMAGINE starting a new life almost 4,000 miles away and having no way of knowing what to expect... what would be in your suitcase?
By Gareth Dennison on Thu 21 Oct 2021
SCAFFOLDING rose to Rotherham Minster’s stunning west window this week after a £319,000 restoration grant was confirmed.
By Phil Turner on Wed 20 Oct 2021
AN ANTI-racism group is teaming up with an arts collective to organise an online event next week for Black History Month.
By Gareth Dennison on Wed 20 Oct 2021
DIG for victory became such a successful campaign in Rotherham that an exhibition of vegetables could be held in the thick of 1940s wartime rationing.
By Gareth Dennison on Wed 20 Oct 2021
PROLIFIC poacher Enoch Swift was a protagonist of Victorian Rotherham’s “game wars” — appearing in court dozens of times.