Hi - can anyone please let me know when the first newspapers were published in Sheffield. I am particularly interested in how the papers dealt with the Colliery Explosion at Warren Vale Pit, Rawmarsh in Dec 1851. Hilary Jackson http://www.hilarymaryjackson.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/abraham_thompson.htm Researching BRAITHWAITE (Cundall-Hartwith-Bradfield-Hunshelf-West Melton); CUPIT (Alfreton & Kirkby in Ashfield, to Darnall & West Melton); GASH (Kirton, Lincs to Hemmingfield and Rawmarsh to Newark & Canada); HICKLING (Hugglescote to Rawmarsh); GAMBLES (Rawmarsh, Yorks); MCPHADEN (Sheffield to West Melton); VAUGHAN (Sheffield to Thorpe Hesley to Wath); WATSON (Thorpe Hesley); BARROWCLIFFE (Ilkeston-Doncaster); BLOOR (Hanley & Burslem); SARAH CHARLESWORTH (Bradfield); COPLEY (Ambleside); DAVIES (Shipley, Derbyshire); DAWSON (Kirton, Lincs); DIXON (Sibsey, Lincs to Wombwell, Yorks); DUTTON (Ickleston & Doncaster); GRAVES (Kirton); HALLAM (Ilkeston); HORNSEY (Moortown, Lincs to Ickleston, to Doncaster) JACKSON (Burslem to Cudworth to Doncaster); LEES (Burslem); MICKLETHWAITE (Cumberworth to Whitwell to Onesacre, and Hunshelf - Yorkshire); MOON (Mapperley to Langley to Ilkeston); NETTLETON (Hoyland in Barnsley); PRICE (Tunstall & Burslem), SHAW (Alfreton), SIMMS (Thornton le Fen, Sutterton, Hemmingfield, Sheffield to Southport); SIMMS (Thorton le Fen, West Melton, to Canada); SKEVINGTON (Kirkby in Ashfield); TOMLINSON (Kirton, Lincs); AND WILKINSON (Moortown, Lincs) .... phew... Proud to be working on the FREECEN Project http://freecen.rootsweb.com