Creative Pathway celebrates Mexborough’s past, present and future
Ask people from Mexborough what they remember most fondly about the town and the answers come quickly. Saturday afternoons spent browsing through Woolworths. The excitement of a trip to the Empire or Majestic cinema. Dancing the night away on the Empress Ballroom’s iconic sprung dancefloor. The Yorkshire rose on the...
Wath chippy owner’s football factory that fed the Wolves
Long before the roar of Molineux echoed with Premier League glory, the golden era of Wolverhampton Wanderers was being shaped on a modest, muddy Miners Welfare pitch almost a hundred miles away in South Yorkshire. On the sidelines was Mark Crook, a retired footballer and chip shop owner from Wath...
Thurnscoe Harmonic Male Voice Choir on song for 100 years
When a group of miners from the Dearne got together to form a choir on 23rd September 1924, little did they know the legacy they would create. But a hundred years later, the Thurnscoe Harmonic Male Voice Choir are still singing strong, bringing joy to all those who hear the...
