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Shambles Street, one of the oldest streets in Barnsley and formerly known as Westgate, it was the main west road out of Barnsley.
I have no idea what the steel structure is? Maybe someone from Barnsley could tell me?
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A bit of a nightmare start to the day, I went into Camera Roll on my Flickr account only to see that it had duplicated my photo's about 3 times for each photo! So have spent the whole morning trying to delete stuff....
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Proudly independent and family-run showing the latest and greatest films, 35mm and 70mm showings and live events! 62-68 Eldon Street, Barnsley S70 2JL.
Large stone building opposite the bus station which was very well refurbished in late 2022. Overlooking the bar is a split-level drinking area with large screen TVs showing music and live sport. A popular darts board is situated to the far end of the front of the pub with a pool table round the corner..
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
A street portrait from Barnsley, England. Captured on assignment for the #OldIs campaign for the charity Independent Age. Gathering a 'snapshot' of how we all feel about ageing in British society today with a portrait and some quotes from people on the street. Enjoy!
Worsbrough Mill, also known as Worsbrough Corn Mill and Worsbrough Mill Farm is a complex of buildings including a seventeenth-century water-powered mill and a nineteenth-century steam-powered mill in Worsbrough, Barnsley, England.
Preserved Colliery headgear.
Ondu 4x5 pinhole camera, Fomapan 100. Developed in Ilford ID11 and scanned with an Epson V800.
Another town elsewhere in Manitoba will soon lose its elevator. They have been falling at a rapid rate in the last few years.
76016 and 76010 back into the sidings to pick up an MGR destined for Fiddlers Ferry. There would be one more west bound MGR before the line closed.
In 2014 I started a project to shoot three images from each of the the stations and property Northern Rail on the Penistone Line. These can be viewed in my album Penistone Line.
Like all my projects they never seem to reach completion, however I went to Barnsley yesterday and believe this leaves only one other station to visit.
Sometimes you just happen upon a picture and it instantly appeals. So it was with this one of Clem Smith's when I scanned it early Saturday morning. I believe the location is Barnsley bus station. Nothing particularly special about it, but its a slice of social and transport history in one small 35mm frame.
By the mix of NBC and pre-NBC liveried vehicles, I presume the date would be sometime in the early 1970s.
Class 45/1 No 45143 passing Barnsley with the diverted 1E56 0915 Derby to York.
Ref No P60/N26 Copyright © Keith Long - All rights reserved.
31253 leaves Barnsley with the o6.52 SO Halifax to Weymouth* train, 08.02 28/8/1976
*If this is correct I'm not sure how it got to Barnsley. I have a vague inkling that it came via Huddersfield and Penistone, or I suppose it could have come via Mirfield and Darton. If anyone knows I'd be interested to hear. According to my notes it joined up with the 07.27 ex Bradford, don't know where! Sheffield would be a good guess I suppose!
Barnsley is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has seen an increase of 5.8%, from 231,200 in 2011 census to 244,600 in 2021 census. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is located between the cities of Sheffield, Manchester, Doncaster, Wakefield, and Leeds. The larger towns of Rotherham and Huddersfield are nearby.
Barnsley's former industries include linen, coal mining, glassmaking and textiles. These declined in the 20th century, but Barnsley's culture is rooted in its industrial heritage and it has a tradition of brass bands, originally created as social clubs by its mining communities.
The town is near to the M1 motorway and is served by Barnsley Interchange railway station on the Hallam and Penistone Lines. Barnsley has competed in the second tier of English football for most of its history, but won the FA Cup in 1912 and competed in the Premier League during the 1997–98 season.
The first reference to Barnsley occurs in 1086 in the Domesday Book, in which it is called Berneslai and has a population of around 200. The origin of the name Barnsley is subject to debate, but Barnsley Council claims that its origins lie in the Saxon word "Berne", for barn or storehouse, and "Lay", for field.
The town was in the parish of Silkstone and developed little until in the 1150s when it was given to the Pontefract Priory. The monks built a town where three roads met: the Sheffield to Wakefield, Rotherham to Huddersfield and Cheshire to Doncaster routes. The Domesday village became known as Old Barnsley, and a town grew up on the new site.
The monks erected a chapel of ease dedicated to Saint Mary, which survived until 1820, and established a market. In 1249, a Royal charter was granted to Barnsley permitting it to hold a weekly market on Wednesdays and annual four-day fair at Michaelmas. By the 1290s, three annual fairs were held. The town was the centre of the Staincross wapentake, but in the mid-16th century had only 600 inhabitants.
From the 17th century, Barnsley developed into a stop-off point on the route between Leeds, Wakefield, Sheffield and London. The traffic generated as a result of its location fuelled trade, with hostelries and related services prospering. A principal centre for linen weaving during the 18th and 19th century, Barnsley grew into an important manufacturing town.
The first passenger station to serve Barnsley was opened by the North Midland Railway in 1840. Barnsley station (latter called Cudworth railway station) was located some 2+1⁄2 miles (4 kilometres) away at Cudworth. On 1 January 1850 the Manchester and Leeds Railway opened Barnsley Exchange station, close to the town centre. On 1 May 1870 the Midland Railway opened Regent Street station, a temporary structure. A new station was opened by the MR on the Regent Street site on 23 August 1873. As it incorporated the old court house in its construction Regent Street station was renamed Barnsley Court House station.
Barnsley became a municipal borough in 1869, and a county borough in 1913. The town's boundaries were extended to absorb Ardsley and Monk Bretton in 1921 and Carlton in 1938.
Barnsley was the site of a human crush that resulted in the deaths of 16 children in 1908, at a public hall now known as The Civic, when children were rushing to watch a film in the building.
Barnsley has a long tradition of glass-making, however Barnsley is most famous for its coal mines. In 1960, there were 70 collieries within a 15-mile (24-kilometre) radius of Barnsley town centre, but the last of these closed in 1994. The National Union of Mineworkers still has its HQ in Barnsley.
George Orwell mentioned the town in The Road to Wigan Pier. He arrived in the town on 11 March 1936 and spent a number of days in the town living in the houses of the working class miners while researching for the book. He wrote very critically of the council's expenditure on the construction of Barnsley Town Hall and claimed that the money should have been spent on improving the housing and living conditions of the local miners.
The Town Hall itself is visible behind some gardens; the building is made of white stone and has an impressive clock tower. Opened on 14 December 1933, Barnsley Town Hall is the seat of local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley. Barnsley was created a county borough in 1913, administered independently of the West Riding of Yorkshire. In 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, the county borough was abolished and Barnsley became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in the new county of South Yorkshire, along with nine urban districts and parts of two rural districts of the surrounding area, including many towns and villages including Penistone and Cudworth.
Elections to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council have seen the Labour Party retain control of the council at every election. Following the latest election in 2012 the council has 53 Labour, 5 Barnsley Independent Group and 5 Conservative councillors. The borough council elects the mayor every year. On the day of the election, a parade takes place in front of the town hall in honour of the new mayor.
Barnsley is split into four constituencies, Barnsley Central, whose MP is Dan Jarvis of the Labour Party, Barnsley East, whose MP is Stephanie Peacock of the Labour Party, Penistone and Stocksbridge, whose MP is Miriam Cates of the Conservative Party, and Wentworth and Dearne, whose MP is John Healey of the Labour Party.
In 2023 I'm using as many of my half-frame cameras as I can. This was taken with a Mercury II, which looks a bit like an old fashioned parking meter and has a rotary metal focal plane shutter.
The film is Orwo N74 developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 13mins at 20 degrees.
Class 950 No 950001 passing Barnsley with 2Q08 0442 Slateford Depot to Derby R.T.C.
Ref No 3.2022 02 09 006 Copyright copyright Keith Long - All rights reserved.
A Huddersfield-bound Metro-Cammell class 101 DMU runs into the station in June 1984. All has changed with the building of the Barnsley Interchange in 2007 and in more recent years, the multi-storey car parks have also gone, as has the level crossing.
Scanned from a slide in my collection.
Two Class 76 locomotives numbers 76011 and 76012 departing from Barnsley Junction sidings with 6M48 the 1226 Wath to Fiddlers Ferry.
Photo details
Colour Slide scan
Agfa 64ASA Film
Camera Yashica Electro 35mm.
Ref No 01639.
Copyright © Keith Long - All rights reserved.
From the heart of the Barnsley bus breaking territory is this mould breaker. V8 Scania with Essell 33-17 equipment seen unchanged with a merchants Daf drop off in Clifton, York. One of two built for the Tow show last year.
Barnsley is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has seen an increase of 5.8%, from 231,200 in 2011 census to 244,600 in 2021 census. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is located between the cities of Sheffield, Manchester, Doncaster, Wakefield, and Leeds. The larger towns of Rotherham and Huddersfield are nearby.
Barnsley's former industries include linen, coal mining, glassmaking and textiles. These declined in the 20th century, but Barnsley's culture is rooted in its industrial heritage and it has a tradition of brass bands, originally created as social clubs by its mining communities.
The town is near to the M1 motorway and is served by Barnsley Interchange railway station on the Hallam and Penistone Lines. Barnsley has competed in the second tier of English football for most of its history, but won the FA Cup in 1912 and competed in the Premier League during the 1997–98 season.
The first reference to Barnsley occurs in 1086 in the Domesday Book, in which it is called Berneslai and has a population of around 200. The origin of the name Barnsley is subject to debate, but Barnsley Council claims that its origins lie in the Saxon word "Berne", for barn or storehouse, and "Lay", for field.
The town was in the parish of Silkstone and developed little until in the 1150s when it was given to the Pontefract Priory. The monks built a town where three roads met: the Sheffield to Wakefield, Rotherham to Huddersfield and Cheshire to Doncaster routes. The Domesday village became known as Old Barnsley, and a town grew up on the new site.
The monks erected a chapel of ease dedicated to Saint Mary, which survived until 1820, and established a market. In 1249, a Royal charter was granted to Barnsley permitting it to hold a weekly market on Wednesdays and annual four-day fair at Michaelmas. By the 1290s, three annual fairs were held. The town was the centre of the Staincross wapentake, but in the mid-16th century had only 600 inhabitants.
From the 17th century, Barnsley developed into a stop-off point on the route between Leeds, Wakefield, Sheffield and London. The traffic generated as a result of its location fuelled trade, with hostelries and related services prospering. A principal centre for linen weaving during the 18th and 19th century, Barnsley grew into an important manufacturing town.
The first passenger station to serve Barnsley was opened by the North Midland Railway in 1840. Barnsley station (latter called Cudworth railway station) was located some 2+1⁄2 miles (4 kilometres) away at Cudworth. On 1 January 1850 the Manchester and Leeds Railway opened Barnsley Exchange station, close to the town centre. On 1 May 1870 the Midland Railway opened Regent Street station, a temporary structure. A new station was opened by the MR on the Regent Street site on 23 August 1873. As it incorporated the old court house in its construction Regent Street station was renamed Barnsley Court House station.
Barnsley became a municipal borough in 1869, and a county borough in 1913. The town's boundaries were extended to absorb Ardsley and Monk Bretton in 1921 and Carlton in 1938.
Barnsley was the site of a human crush that resulted in the deaths of 16 children in 1908, at a public hall now known as The Civic, when children were rushing to watch a film in the building.
Barnsley has a long tradition of glass-making, however Barnsley is most famous for its coal mines. In 1960, there were 70 collieries within a 15-mile (24-kilometre) radius of Barnsley town centre, but the last of these closed in 1994. The National Union of Mineworkers still has its HQ in Barnsley.
George Orwell mentioned the town in The Road to Wigan Pier. He arrived in the town on 11 March 1936 and spent a number of days in the town living in the houses of the working class miners while researching for the book. He wrote very critically of the council's expenditure on the construction of Barnsley Town Hall and claimed that the money should have been spent on improving the housing and living conditions of the local miners.
The Town Hall itself is visible behind some gardens; the building is made of white stone and has an impressive clock tower. Opened on 14 December 1933, Barnsley Town Hall is the seat of local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley. Barnsley was created a county borough in 1913, administered independently of the West Riding of Yorkshire. In 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, the county borough was abolished and Barnsley became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in the new county of South Yorkshire, along with nine urban districts and parts of two rural districts of the surrounding area, including many towns and villages including Penistone and Cudworth.
Elections to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council have seen the Labour Party retain control of the council at every election. Following the latest election in 2012 the council has 53 Labour, 5 Barnsley Independent Group and 5 Conservative councillors. The borough council elects the mayor every year. On the day of the election, a parade takes place in front of the town hall in honour of the new mayor.
Barnsley is split into four constituencies, Barnsley Central, whose MP is Dan Jarvis of the Labour Party, Barnsley East, whose MP is Stephanie Peacock of the Labour Party, Penistone and Stocksbridge, whose MP is Miriam Cates of the Conservative Party, and Wentworth and Dearne, whose MP is John Healey of the Labour Party.
The Barnsley Trail is a short walk of some four and a half miles or so that starts in the Pondwell area of the Isle of Wight. All of my photos of this walk have been taken during the rural section of the trail which is the most interesting.
Looking back as we come to the end of the rural section of The Barnsley Trail.
Circa 1979. I'll find my guard's journal for this one day. One for Keith Long, who operated that signal box a few times and kindly identified some signals on a previous posting. Some more ground signals for you here, Keith!
76021 and (I think, not a great scan) 76015 on what looks very much like 8E00 from Ardwick. A crummy colour neg scan but that old favourite, 'a moment in time'!
I was with a pair of 76s off camera to my right, waiting for this train to clear the junction before returning to Guide Bridge.