After the grey days of black and white TV, it was a breath of fresh
air to see colour TV. Promoting the Clearview vision are these
employees, and our friend Keith Butcher, who loaned us the photo,
wonders if anyone can put names to the faces. Email us if you can
please, and we'll pass the information on.
 This
is a photo of Teddy Nolan, who had the ice cream cart and shop on
Swinton Road, opposite the Olympia (later The Empire).
We'd like to learn a lot more
about Teddy, so if you can help, please email us.
The facts we have so far: He was born in 1868 and died of TB aged 47
in 1914. He died in No 1 Swinton Road
Any further information would be welcome.
Photo courtesy of Keith Butcher.
Schofield Technical
photos requested
 Is it possible someone may have some photos of The Schofield Technical School in the late 1940s to 50s?
I attended there between 1947 – 1950 and as I am recounting an account of my time there it would be nice to have a picture of how it was
as it has long since been demolished.
Thanks in anticipation. Jack Perry.
If you can help, please
email us
here
Mexborough Grammar
School: photos from 1949-54
Terry Bentham was a student
at MGs from 1949-54, and wonders if anyone has photos from this
time. The Society only has a handful, so you'd be helping us out
too. If you can help, please email us
here
Enquiry about a
Swinton Comprehensive School master
 Researching
her school days led Lynda Snowden (formerly Linda Bilston, of Wath)
to our site. She spotted a Mexborough Grammar School student
here, called Peter Penketh, and wonders if
he grew up to be the Peter Penketh who was her form teacher at the
Comp many years ago. If anyone has any details, please let us know
and we'll pass them on.
If you can help, please email us
here
Concertina
band mystery and The Cut
While archiving issues of Mexborough's only alternative
newspaper, The Cut, we came across this wonderful illustration
(below right). The
paper, which caused a stir in the town in the early seventies, was
full of great illustrations by Derek Allport, and this one caught our eye. It shows
five members of the 'Tina Club concertina band - and we have names
for all of them, except the gent on the left. From the left -
Unknown, Joe Jevons, Willis Watson, Archie Watson, Stan Caunter.
If you could help with his name, please drop us an email.
Our thanks to Michael Dilcock for providing a
missing issue; Michael's father was the late respected police office
Insp Dilcock, who was a some-time target for The Cut's barbs.
We have obtained the remainder of the newspapers courtesy of Derek,
and have digitised them for our archive. And as 2012 is the 40th
anniversary of the first issue, we've put a little tribute together,
here
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Spot
the pub!
Another one which has
us stumped. The Society has a number of photographs of local inns
and pubs over the years, but a reader sent us this photo which we
can't put a name to. If anyone can help please do email us. In any
event, it's a wonderful photo, and a wonderful collection of flat
caps and watch fobs!
 The
Fisher family, and Ted Hughes
In bringing to mind a well-remembered master at Mexborough
Grammar School, David Boyd wonders if anyone could help with
information about Mr Fisher's daughters.
He includes a relaxed photo of Ted Hughes (right) with Norman
Nicholson and Jack Fisher.
David's literary interests can be read:
here or
here or
here
If you can help, please email us
here
UPDATE: October 5 2011
Sue Harris emails with the following:-
I can give you a little information about both daughters but
nothing definitive. His eldest daughter went to university back in
1964 or so - I do not know anything of her after leaving MGS to go
to university. His youngest daughter married Paul Bloomfield (I
believe that was his last name) who was in my year at MGS. My Aunt
who lived in Mexborough all her life and died earlier this year told
me years ago that the youngest daughter unexpectedly died of
pneumonia. I think this had to be at least 30 years ago if not more. I assume he is now dead, but in
turn, if you know anything of him after retiring from MGS I would be
interested to know.
I would appreciate any info on Jack Fisher after retirement - he was
impressive to all he taught. I was bon in Mexborough and lived
there from 1947 to about 1965. Don't ever let them tear down the
Empress Ballroom and the movie theater next to it - the Empress
looked exactly the same inside as when I used to dance in it and the
movie theater was my first, having gone there on Saturday afternoons
to watch Flash Gordon among other things, and very often in the
company of Tony Capstick , of whose passing I was sorry to learn
recently.
October 11 2011: We have
it on authority that both of Mr Fisher's daughters are now deceased,
the surviving one passing away in 2011 -
Webmaster
 Where
was Corner Pin Yard, Swinton?
This next query concerns Swinton. Does anyone know where Corner Pin
Yard was? We have an address on a birth certificate in 1888 for '109
Corner Pin Yard', but it's proving difficult to locate where this
address was.
If you can help, please email us
here:
UPDATE: October 3 2011
Consensus among our experts seems to place the yard in the
Swinton Bridge area, in a small pocket of crowded housing as
indicated on the map
 What
does DDSS stand for?
A reader came across this rare photo of Conisbrough D.D.S.S.
F.C. taken on the Welfare Field in Conisbrough 1910. "Two names I
have - the man with the pocket watch with hat on and his hand on the
footballer knelt down James Preston, and son Arthur Preston from
Mexborough. What I would like to know is, what D.D.S.S.
stands for.?"
If you can help, please email us
here:
UPDATE: January 2012
Lynda Snowden believes DDSS stands for National Federation of Discharged and Disabled ex-Servicemen's Society, sounds good to us!
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