Secret Rotherham Jones Mel
Secret Rotherham offers a unique insight into this bustling, modern South Yorkshire town through a series of little-known and forgotten stories, facts and anecdotes from its past. The town has an…
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Secret Rotherham offers a unique insight into this bustling, modern South Yorkshire town through a series of little-known and forgotten stories, facts and anecdotes from its past. The town has an enviable industrial history: Nelson's HMS Victory was armed with Walker's cannons made at Masbrough, the iron plates for Isambard Brunel's steamship the Great Eastern were manufactured at Parkgate Iron & Steel Works, and the firm of Guest and Chrimes invented the modern screw-down tap. Over the centuries the Rotherham area has also had its fair share of famous residents and visitors. In 1568 Mary Queen of Scots spent a night in Rotherham under close guard on her way from Bolton Castle to Tutbury Castle; it was the home of the Earl of Strafford who was beheaded in 1641; Ebenezer Elliott, the 'Corn Law Rhymer', was born and bought up in the town; and the composer, Ralph Vaughan