The photo shows the South Kirkby Colliery cricket team.
The picture was brought in by Pauline Hazelhurst, 52, of Caddon Avenue, South Elmsall, whose father Kenneth Whitehouse is pictured second from the left on the front row.

Mr Whitehouse was a spin bowler for the team.

Also pictured are A Hartley, J Morris, A Briggs, O Hopkins, K Britten, C Pawson, Ronnie Roberts, R Cowles, G Liddle and Neville Hill.
Can anyone help fill in the gaps or tell us what the trophy they won was for?


Looking Back

A curious case of 'Who dunnit?' came to light as I was trawling through some books the other day.

In 1860 14-year-old Elizabeth Mitchell died from a gunshot wound to her back at Upton Farm, where she was employed by Thomas Spink.

Mr Spink and his new wife were visiting friends in Darrington at the time, leaving Elizabeth in charge of the house with 17-year-old farmhand George Thorpe.

Mrs Spink had left refreshments, including a bottle of beer for George.
During the afternoon Elizabeth was joined by her sister, Martha, and friend, Annie Cookson, who lived nearby.

Thorpe had spent the afternoon drinking ginger beer with another farmhand, Robert Rhodes, and a friend in the Upton shop premises of Mary Waller.

Having said he would meet Rhodes later to go to Walton Wood that evening he went back to the farmhouse and larked about with the three girls, but got angry when Elizabeth pulled his hair.

The girls left at 5pm but Annie returned at 6pm to find her friend dead in the coal store, her clothing saturated with blood; she had been shot just under the shoulder blade.

After raising the alarm, Annie's father, William Cookson, and neighbour, Joseph Thorpe, carried the dead girl into the kitchen.
When George Thorpe returned after meeting his drinking buddy, Mr Rhodes, he told them he had locked the doors and left Elizabeth alive and well … but Rhodes said his friend had been late and was seen running up the road from the direction of the farm at 6.05pm.
When William Cookson reprimanded him for not looking after Elizabeth and guarding the farm, he said: "I have not done it, I have not done it!" The finger of suspicion was now pointing towards Thorpe.
Dr James Ibeson was brought from Hemsworth and Constable Joseph Skelton from South Elmsall and the following day Supt Hall came from Pontefract, who examined a recently fired gun owned by Thomas Spink.
When asked to show the clothes he had been wearing the previous day, Thorpe produced a blue smock but witnesses said he had been wearing a white one, later found in Thorpe's trunk with blood stains on the cuff and waistband.

He was arrested and, at the inquest held in an Upton shop, Dr Ibeson suggested that Thorpe had shot her in the back as the girl tried to get away through the kitchen door. The jurors delivered a verdict of murder.
The magistrates at the White Hart Inn committed him to trial at York Assizes where he was found not guilty because the evidence was mainly circumstantial.

So who did murder Elizabeth?