Residents of Sherwood Street first appeared in the census of 1901 at which time there were 325 people living there in 108 families. The birthplaces of these families covered 21 English Counties plus Wales, Ireland and India, showing how the collieries attracted so many with their offer of better paid work and new housing. There would have been a lot of different accents ringing out down the street, and in the Sherwood Street Club which was established by 1911.
At the census of that year Leo Draycott was club steward. Sabina Rowe had married Leo, and in 1901 her widowed father Alfred and her 3 siblings were living with them at the club on Sherwood St.
This picture shows a Sherwood Street Social Club Token, used for refreshments at the club. Could it have been given as part of a miner’s pay?