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Hucknall Tolkard in the News
1800--1900
These are transcribed by courtesy Trish Symonds from N,S,W taken from the News paper of that Parish
Wednesday, 2 September 1891, Birmingham Daily Post No 10357,
A surgeon named HARWOOD, practising at Hucknall Torkard near Nottingham, was found yesterday evening on the bank of the Trent with a bullet wound in the chest, and a recently discharged revolver besides him. He was removed to Nottingham Hospital.
Sunday, 29 November 1893, Reynolds Newspaper-London No 2258,
The miners’ wives at Hucknall Torkard have received from Pinxton, a village on the borders of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, where there are 1,200 miners unemployed and 400 families reduced almost to starvation, large numbers of children, whom they intend to clothe and feed until the termination of the Strike. Already 200 children have arrived, and arrangements are being made for the conveyance of more.
Wednesday, 25 April 1894, Birmingham Daily Post No 11185,
BANKRUPTS – Joseph WATSON, Annesley Road, Hucknall Torkard, Notts, grocer and draper.
Thursday, 3 January 1885, Liverpool Mercury No 14666,
A lady named Mrs RILEY, residing at 23 St James’ street, Hucknall Torkard, in an interview with one of our reporters had this to say – “My daughter Martha will be twenty one next June. Up to three years ago she enjoyed good health, but then began to feel ill. She took cod liver oil, port wine and such things, but did not improve. She then read of the wonderful cures effected by Dr WILLIAMS’ Pink Pills For Pale People. There was a change for the better, which could be produced by any other means. If my recommendations will lead others to use Dr WILLIAMS Pink Pills, and receive the same benefit, I will feel grateful.” Dr WILLIAMS Pink Pills For Pale People are a perfect cure for rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxy, St Vitus’ dance, nervous headache, nervous prostration, and the tired feeling resulting from humours in the blood such as scofula, chronic etysipalas & c.
Wednesday, 10 June 1896, Derby Mercury No 9466,
Derby Borough Police Court, Monday – John BETTERIDGE, a boy from Hucknall Torkard, was charged with wandering abroad in the Corn Market on Saturday night. – Prisoner was handed over to his father.
Wednesday, 29 December 1896, Derby Mercury No 9495,
Derby Police Court, Monday – Thomas DOLMAN was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Yates Street on Saturday afternoon, fighting with his father-in-law. DOLMAN was also charged with assaulting the police. Defendant pleaded hard for leniency, saying he had come to Derby from Hucknall Torkard for his Christmas holidays. He was charged 5s and costs for being drunk, and 5s and costs for assaulting the constable.
Wednesday, 3 February 1897, Derby Mercury No 9500,
Derby County Police Court, Monday – John HAWKINS, landlord of the Three Tuns, Sadler Gate, and formerly the publican of the Station Hotel at Hucknall Torkard, was summoned for selling drinks during prohibited hours on January 21 to Thomas WHITEHEAD and Henry McCONNELL. Case was dismissed. WHITEHEAD and McCONNELL were eached fined 17s 6d for giving false names to the police. (A very long story in the paper of the court case)
Wednesday, 24 March 1897, Derby Mercury No 9507,
Derby County Police Court, Friday – William JARVIS of Hucknall Torkard was charged with deserting his wife, Ann JARVIS, and six children at Long Eaton in 1895. The evidence went to show that the prisoner, a scissors grinder, had been with the woman at Long Eaton, and left her the day after her confinement. He had been living at Hucknall Torkard. Prisoner told the Bench he was not the woman’s husband and did not intend to desert her. He was sent to gaol for one month with hard labour
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