By Gareth Dennison on Thu 28 May 2020
WHILE most young people were competing for prizes at the Silverwood Sports and Gala, held at the Silverwood Welfare Sports Ground, on Monday, a group of boys were performing a public service.
By Gareth Dennison on Thu 28 May 2020
NO WONDER these seven children are looking proud at being pictured with the new gala beauty “queen” — it’s their mum.
By Gareth Dennison on Thu 28 May 2020
THAT pet aversion of the family man, the domestic washing day, is gradually becoming one of those archaic customs the remembrance alone of which provides gladness inasmuch as it is a thing of the past.
By Admin on Fri 22 May 2020
LARGE trees were lifted from the ground, roofs ripped, children blown across roads and canal water raised in huge sheets as “wholesale destruction” arrived in minutes.
By Michael Upton on Fri 22 May 2020
A crucifix salvaged from a bombed-out house by a soldier from Rotherham during the Second World War became a poignant memento when he was killed days later. Now the family who kept it in memory of tragic Pte Samuel ”Sunny” Rigby want to find his descendants to pass on the religious keepsake to them, as Michael Upton reports.
By Gareth Dennison on Tue 19 May 2020
AN HISTORIC Rotherham woodland — containing an Iron Age fortification — has become the first in South Yorkshire to win a prestigious award.
By Gareth Dennison on Tue 19 May 2020
PROPOSALS for a housing development near Morrison’s supermarket at Bramley resulted in the discovery of ancient lime kilns thought to have been operating on the site 500 years ago.
By Gareth Dennison on Tue 19 May 2020
THE fate of Rotherham’s pigeons still hangs in the balance of a legal wrangle in which the town’s Borough Solicitor has now become involved.
By Gareth Dennison on Tue 19 May 2020
THE new manager of the Windmill Club, former airline pilot Guy Greenwood, this week denied rumours that the club was to be turned into a discotheque, a bingo club or an ante-natal clinic.
By Gareth Dennison on Tue 19 May 2020
THESE pictures, reproduced from photographs sent to us by Private T. C. White, of the Labour Corps, who has just returned to his home at Rotherham after being engaged in the gruesome task of exhuming the bodies of our soldiers in France, should be of melancholy interest to Rotherham people.
By Chloe West on Thu 07 May 2020
POLICE are urging people in Rotherham to pull together and stay at home as the UK prepares to mark the 75th anniversary of VE day tomorrow.
By Gareth Dennison on Thu 07 May 2020
VIRTUAL VE Day events are planned across Rotherham as the borough marks the 75th anniversary despite lockdown.
By Andrew Mosley on Thu 23 Apr 2020
JUST opposite the town hall, down a narrow pathway, is a little-known building of genuine historial importance. Andrew Mosley looks into its past
By Gareth Dennison on Wed 22 Apr 2020
Gareth Dennison provides a snapshot of life in Rotherham provided by a local authority report from 95 years ago
By Adele Forrest on Fri 27 Mar 2020
A HISTORIAN is helping to keep alive important figureheads from a village’s past by naming new streets in their honour.