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December 2011: These two photographs are of Alexandra Road, Mexborough. They were taken in 1954 by Colin S Palmer with his Kodak camera - long before traffic filled the streets. Colin, born on Alexandra Road, has lived in British Columbia for 46 years, and still keeps in touch with his friends from Mexborough Grammar School.



 



December 2010: This series of images comes from Christine Hobson, of Sheffield, via her late uncle, concerning the Tyas family of Mexborough.
 

Herbert Tyas Snr. was a resident of Mexborough, a builder who lived at The Glen (now gone I believe).
He was married to Alice for many years and had a large family.  After her death he married a Scottish woman named Agnes who was headmistress in a Rotherham school. He had a son with Agnes, Herbert Jnr.
Senior was a Methodist minister for many years, and his son married my aunt ,who lived at the White Bear at Ecclesfield, daughter of Harry Percy Lewis who was an ex. football manager and referee.
They went to live in Bradford eventually, where he became stage manager of the Alhambra theatre for 29 years. S

Herbert Senior is buried in Mexborough cemetery with quite a few of his family. Agnes died in Redcar after the war.

 
  Herbert Tyas Snr,                    ..his wife Agnes Georgina         Herbert Jnr (1902 - 1982)

 
The Glen.

December 2010: A very nice shot of Mexborough's Pastures Road bus sheds, around 1920, from a good friend of ours, Pete Day, of Denaby.

OCTOBER 2010: This interesting photo of the Mexborough Brickyard  in 1925 comes from another good friend of the Society, Keith Butcher (Keith's website). He writes: The faces seem happy despite the working conditions they put up with in those days. My two brothers worked there back in the 50's the condition then was bad there skin was bright red when the finished a shift there.
some names are: Top right hand side-the manager/Boss - Mr Sherlock, 4th from RHS bottom -Archer Hague, 7th from RHS bottom-Herbert Holt, 2nd from top LHS- Peter Waddlngton, 3rd from Bottom RHS-Tom Rownsley