Death in the darkness
How five men lost their lives in a Castleford colliery fire in 1891. Coal mining in the late nineteenth century …
How five men lost their lives in a Castleford colliery fire in 1891. Coal mining in the late nineteenth century …
Number one in an occasional series of advertisements from Castleford’s nineteenth century newspapers. From our twenty-first century viewpoint, Victorian advertisements …
The annual report by the medical officer, Dr John Simpson, to Castleford Local Board of Health in 1858 suggests little …
The board charged with ridding Castleford of its squalor gets off to a slow start as ratepayers prove unwilling to …
A consensus in favour of action breaks down as the likely cost of enacting the cholera inquiry report’s recommendations becomes …