Hesley Hall had one of the largest households in the area in 1901 with its indoor staff consisting of a chaplain, butler, housekeeper, two footmen and six maids.

As part of the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations, Tickhill Countryside Group purchased 4 acres of land to establish a wood of broadleaved English trees, to be called ‘Jubilee Wood’.

A series of handwritten pages from Marjorie Longdin's notebook in which she has transcribed entries from a number of sources providing interesting information on Wellingley.

A volunteer guide at Mr Straw's House, the National Trust property in Worksop, describes the work involved in 'putting the house to bed' or closing it for the winter season!

Beryl Attaway’s research notes as she has explored information on the residents of Hesley Hall. A 'work in progress', Beryl is happy to share and invites comments from anyone who may have information to add.

Hesley Hall School for Crippled Children, was opened by Queen Elizabeth on 25 July 1950, to be run as a boarding school for 5-11 year olds by the Central Council for the Care of Cripples.

Transcribed notes of Miss Mary Elizabeth Dixon of Caistor’s diary recording of her twelve day visit to Hesley Hall in June 1872, brief daily entries with notes giving further information about the people she mentions, the places she visits, the books she reads, and other activities in those days.

Located on gently rising ground at the northern edge of Wadworth Parish and accessed by a tree lined avenue from Springwell Lane, Alverley Hall became a residential training centre in 1919 run by the West Riding County Council

Philip Taylor, who is a Team Leader in Geo/Environmental for Opus International Consultants UK Ltd., has been kind enough to send a copy of his 2012 MSC dissertation for us to make available to people interested in the local history of Dadsley.

The Restoration of Brodsworth Hall & Gardens - A talk given by Alison Constantine of English Heritage to Tickhill & District Local History Society in February 2007

The majority of Doncaster’s 21st Century residents are oblivious to the unique and fascinating residence which graced the town from the mid-1850s until the Second World War.

Seventeen people living in one house seems to be a little bit of a crush, but although it was a large family, by the standards of those days it wasn’t so unusual.

Ruddle [a type of red ochre] was used for ‘the coarser purposes’ of painting, for example, carts and wagons and also by carpenters for marking their timber.

Digging a trench in 1938 through farmland at Stancil led to the discovery of a Roman Villa