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  Where you are: Local History - Snippets
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Tickhill and District Local History Society produces a quarterly Newsletter which contains brief articles on aspects of local history. Each is carefully researched.

New topics from the Newsletter and other sources will be added regularly to this website.

The topics are listed below, grouped under broad headings to help you find your way around.

To access any topic, please click on it.

Please note - this new page set-out is being implemented progressively and not all links are live. If the link does not work, look for the topic in the menu on the left-hand side of the screen. Some topics are yet to be written and will appear shortly.

CASTLE CHILDHOOD and YOUTH
Gateway 1881 Tickhill's Teenagers
House 1918-1923 Press cuttings
Keep 1924 School visit to British Empire Exhibition
C Hansbie's will 1936 Education week
A Re-enactment  
Castle Archers' Society  
   
LOCAL GOVERNMENT MILITARY / WARTIME
Township Book Mediaeval tournaments
1904 Register of Electors Mediaeval soldier website review
Tickhill Urban District Council 1904 Infantry & yeomanry volunteers
  1917 Economy campaign
  Living memories of WWII
   
RECREATION RELIGION
Celebrations Codex Sinaiticus
Cricket Tickhill Psalter
Drum & fife band Roche Abbey on the internet
Flower shows Clash of  beliefs
Going to the pictures Parish Room
G R Tuby - Fairground showman Review of "The Beloved Wife"
Tickhill Boys' Club Glynne - Yorkshire Church Notes
Doncaster Races Methodist Schoolroom
  Tickhill's Austin Friary
  Nepotism in action
   
TRADES TRANSPORT
1837 & 1915 Trades and Professions Saxton's carriers
1910 Advertising Traffic in Tickhill
Shops 60 years ago  
Farming in the 1940s  
Lye Family and Postal Service  
Agricultural Show 1950  
17th Cent Trade Tokens  
   
WELFARE GENERAL
Hard Times Ordnance Survey Bench marks
Fire Brigade Memories of Victorian Tickhill
District visitors Tickhill's migrant population
Friendly Society British Empire Exhibition
Sandbeck Nursing Association Dates on buildings
  Glossary of words
  Story behind a Gravestone
  Preservation of buildings
  50 Years Ago
  A Research Challenge
AROUND TICKHILL Effects of Volcano 1783
Hesley Hall 18th century wedding in StMary's
Jubilee Wood Clarel Hall
Notes on Wellingley Royal Weddings and Tickhill
  Censuses
  Royal Arms in St Mary's Church
  Medical Fees
  1741 Parliamentary Election
  Amelia Staniforth's Journal 1782-85
  1807 General Election
   
   
   


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