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anonymous
08:02 AM on July 08, 2010
Mike says...
Well done again Mary. Always like reading this site. Mike
Thank you, Mike, it is always good to hear from you, I hope that the porphyria isn't bothering you too much.
Take care,
Mary
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Shirley Laley
01:32 PM on July 02, 2010
I so enjoyed your web site Mary,so well put together,I enjoyed meeting your family,and one picture took my imagination, the one of your play area and houses of your Aunts,the discription of the toilet block,took me back to my days as an evacuee in Staffordshire during the war,thank you so much for sharing,hugs Shirley(Lauben)
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Clurescutle
10:28 AM on June 20, 2010
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Elizabeth Reekie
11:57 AM on May 23, 2010
Excellent site Mary, I enjoyed reading it and finding out a bit more about your family and where you were brought up. Very well put together,loved all the old photos.Thanks for giving me the link. love Elizabeth (Beth )
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trevor
07:34 PM on May 21, 2010
I am researching Bernard Gibson killed in an air raid on Coventry 20/10/40 would appreciate any info on him/photo etc
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Jen
08:45 PM on May 19, 2010
This website is absolutely fascinating - i can't tell you how I've enjoyed reading the stories and history and looking at the old pictures. It really is an absolute gift to have this here for anyone to see. I have lived in Barnsley for just over a decade and have only known its most modern incarnation but seeing these photographs and reading the stories, peppered with street names i know so well, has really brought home the history of the place. I feel like i have only just been properly introduced to someone I've known for years. Thank you so much for your lovely writing, I have really been touched by this. Many, many thanks.
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Kimberly
05:04 PM on May 07, 2010
Lovely website! I am enjoying it very much!!!
Blessings,
Kimberly
Blessings,
Kimberly
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Louise
05:44 PM on April 17, 2010
Hi, don't know if you've already been told this, but I want to let you know that the photo you have on that is called Barnsley Cemetery, is part of the old church (now ruins) in the cemetery on cemetery road. Thanks for Listening 
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anonymous
12:31 PM on March 15, 2010
A message from our niece, Alison, who is studying for her Phd in South Africa
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Alison Feeley March 15 at 4:19pm
How are you? I've just been looking at your Barnsley website. I don't know if anyone's expressed their gratitude to you for doing this but I am now only begining to see it's value (as I get older I suppose!). So, thank you. I am particularly interested in Grandad's letters to Grandma during the war. It's very insightful to have read what's on your site. I read with great interest that Grandad's mother Sally had a keen interest in public health - perhaps this is where I get my interest from? Who knows but it was heart-warming to feel a connection if you like! Love to you and Unc xxx
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How are you? I've just been looking at your Barnsley website. I don't know if anyone's expressed their gratitude to you for doing this but I am now only begining to see it's value (as I get older I suppose!). So, thank you. I am particularly interested in Grandad's letters to Grandma during the war. It's very insightful to have read what's on your site. I read with great interest that Grandad's mother Sally had a keen interest in public health - perhaps this is where I get my interest from? Who knows but it was heart-warming to feel a connection if you like! Love to you and Unc xxx
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msmarystrikens
05:43 PM on February 27, 2010
Hi! I really liked your forum, especially this section. I just signed up and immediately decided to introduce myself, if I'm wrong section, ask the moderators to move the topic to the right place, hopefully it will take me well... My name is Mary, me 29 years, humourist and serious woman in one person. I apologize for my English
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Keith
04:45 PM on February 21, 2010
Hi there, I am Keith & I play Soprano Cornet for Northallerton Silver Band. Just thought that I would thank you for calling over to Masham to listen to us on the 19th Feb. I understand from Dave Prest that you enjoyed what you heard very nice. Thanks for singing the bands Guestbook as well, very kind of you. If you have any good photos of the band and wish them to go onto the bands website then don't hesitate to send them over to us and we will do our best to have them put onto the website for you. Thanks again for calling over to listen to us and we do hope to see you again at another concert.
Happy days. :-)
Keith.
Happy days. :-)
Keith.
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anonymous
07:31 PM on February 08, 2010
Thank you for signing my guest book. If you would care to email me, my address is barnsleyandfamily@msn.com
I shall be only too pleased to help (if I can) with any questions.
I shall be only too pleased to help (if I can) with any questions.
Hi Mary
Happy New Year! Hope you and Stan are well and alarmingly happy. I do love in reflective moments to have a another look at your website and be reminded again of lovely times and memories, lots of which we share (we were but kids tell Stan). I was particularly taken again with the school production of 'Bluebeard' photo. See the slave? - early Brando do you think? Maybe not. Also about the '46 flood. You think Lang Avenue had it rough. You ought to have seen my Grandma's house on the corner of Friar's Road and Pontefract Road. She learned to swim at age 67.
keep well love,
Barry
Happy New Year! Hope you and Stan are well and alarmingly happy. I do love in reflective moments to have a another look at your website and be reminded again of lovely times and memories, lots of which we share (we were but kids tell Stan). I was particularly taken again with the school production of 'Bluebeard' photo. See the slave? - early Brando do you think? Maybe not. Also about the '46 flood. You think Lang Avenue had it rough. You ought to have seen my Grandma's house on the corner of Friar's Road and Pontefract Road. She learned to swim at age 67.
keep well love,
Barry
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barnsleyandfamily
10:59 AM on December 16, 2009
Subject: BGHS and Mary Feeley
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:07:52 +0000
Hi There Mary
What a pleasant surprise I had after I tapped in to 'Barnsley Girls High School' the other day, I was expecting maybe to find a bit of history about the building, to say I was amazed would be nearer the truth.
What a brilliant record you have put together it makes really interesting reading, also all the family history too, no doubt it has prompted quite a number of people to contact you either to sing your praises or of course ask questions about their schooldays.
I hope to do both because as I have already said I think you have done a great job! Inevitably I too have a question because I also have that school photograph taken in 1954 and mine is autographed on the back as is yours. What a shock I had on seeing my own photograph on the screen, it is one I would rather not have made public though but as it is so long ago who cares!
It would be really good if it was possble to either get in touch with or even meet up with some of the girls on the photo though I realise this could be difficult to arrange. I would really like to get in touch with Susan Margaret Ward as she was then, she lived at Monk Bretton in those days but of course marriage made several moves for both her and me too,
obviously we lost touch and I would be delighted to make contact again with her or anyone else from that year for that matter.
I hope this finds you well and I wish you and your family a magical Christmas.
Best Wishes Gillian Maplethorpe (nee Shaw)
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:07:52 +0000
Hi There Mary
What a pleasant surprise I had after I tapped in to 'Barnsley Girls High School' the other day, I was expecting maybe to find a bit of history about the building, to say I was amazed would be nearer the truth.
What a brilliant record you have put together it makes really interesting reading, also all the family history too, no doubt it has prompted quite a number of people to contact you either to sing your praises or of course ask questions about their schooldays.
I hope to do both because as I have already said I think you have done a great job! Inevitably I too have a question because I also have that school photograph taken in 1954 and mine is autographed on the back as is yours. What a shock I had on seeing my own photograph on the screen, it is one I would rather not have made public though but as it is so long ago who cares!
It would be really good if it was possble to either get in touch with or even meet up with some of the girls on the photo though I realise this could be difficult to arrange. I would really like to get in touch with Susan Margaret Ward as she was then, she lived at Monk Bretton in those days but of course marriage made several moves for both her and me too,
obviously we lost touch and I would be delighted to make contact again with her or anyone else from that year for that matter.
I hope this finds you well and I wish you and your family a magical Christmas.
Best Wishes Gillian Maplethorpe (nee Shaw)
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Trevor Newsome
08:40 PM on December 05, 2009
This has been a fascinating read. The memories have come tumbling back as if it were only yesterday.
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barnsleyandfamily
12:54 PM on October 28, 2009
Hi Mary. Thought I'd email you as I just stumbled on your great site whilst Googling for old photos of Barnsley. I was born in Barnsley in 1960 and lived on Longman Road, off Old Mill Lane, first down on the left.There was a Butcher's shop at the top which is now a photographers I think, or used to be.Then in 1971 we moved to Honeywell Lane, then Monk Bretton in 1987. I now live in East Ham, London though, came down here in 1994. What I want to ask you is was your husband a lecturer in Computing at Barnsley College? I did a C&G computer programming course in 1983 and Stan Lipscombe was a lecturer, head of Dept. I think actually. Looks very like your Stan but apologies if I'm wrong. Going to look at some more pics on your site now. I remember Beckett Hospital as my mum was in there once. She's 83 now but my dad died in 2001. I went to Holgate School.
Regards and look forward to hearing from you. Chris English.
Regards and look forward to hearing from you. Chris English.
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barnsleyandfamily
05:47 PM on August 28, 2009
an email received from Denis Davey.
Dear Barnsley Historians
From time to time I Google various names originating from my youth. As a result I have discovered your web site and find it fascinating reading. Various bits of information remind of my boyhood days in Barnsley, where I attended Gawber School, Wilthorpe Primary School, and Holgate Grammar School between 1945 and 1950.
Several of your photographs include photos of Geoffrey Wainwright who was in my form at BHGS. You are probably not aware of what he has achieved since leaving school in 1957. If you look him up in Wikipedia you will discover the following information contained in the first paragraph
"Born in Yorkshire in 1939, Geoffrey Wainwright is an ordained minister of the British Methodist Church. He received his University education in Cambridge, Geneva, and Rome, and holds the Dr. Theology degree from Geneva and the Doctor of Divinity from Cambridge. He served as a circuit minister in Liverpool [1964-66] and then as a missionary teacher and pastor in Cameroon, West Africa [1967-1973]. Returning to England, he taught Scripture and Theology at the Queen's College, Birmingham [1973-1979]. In 1979 he moved to Union Theological Seminary, New York, where he becamet he Roosevelt professor of Systematic Theology. Since 1983 he has taught at Duke Divinity School, a part of Duke University in North Carolina, where he occupies the Robert Earl Cushman chair of Christian Theology. Dr. Wainwright has held visiting professorships at the University of Notre Dame, the Gregorian University in Rome and the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne, Australia."
You will discover many more fascinating facts In the later paragraphs, including other positions of responsibility he has held and the many books he has written, most notably perhaps having edited the Oxford History of Christian Worship [2006].
Well done Littleworth, BHGS and especially well done Geoff.
I would be grateful if you would acknowledge receipt of this e-mail and look forward to finding a feature article on Geoff on your web site.
Denis Davey
[ now married to Catherine Waddington , former head of Dodworth Junor School, and living in Heanton Punchardon, North Devon ].
Dear Barnsley Historians
From time to time I Google various names originating from my youth. As a result I have discovered your web site and find it fascinating reading. Various bits of information remind of my boyhood days in Barnsley, where I attended Gawber School, Wilthorpe Primary School, and Holgate Grammar School between 1945 and 1950.
Several of your photographs include photos of Geoffrey Wainwright who was in my form at BHGS. You are probably not aware of what he has achieved since leaving school in 1957. If you look him up in Wikipedia you will discover the following information contained in the first paragraph
"Born in Yorkshire in 1939, Geoffrey Wainwright is an ordained minister of the British Methodist Church. He received his University education in Cambridge, Geneva, and Rome, and holds the Dr. Theology degree from Geneva and the Doctor of Divinity from Cambridge. He served as a circuit minister in Liverpool [1964-66] and then as a missionary teacher and pastor in Cameroon, West Africa [1967-1973]. Returning to England, he taught Scripture and Theology at the Queen's College, Birmingham [1973-1979]. In 1979 he moved to Union Theological Seminary, New York, where he becamet he Roosevelt professor of Systematic Theology. Since 1983 he has taught at Duke Divinity School, a part of Duke University in North Carolina, where he occupies the Robert Earl Cushman chair of Christian Theology. Dr. Wainwright has held visiting professorships at the University of Notre Dame, the Gregorian University in Rome and the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne, Australia."
You will discover many more fascinating facts In the later paragraphs, including other positions of responsibility he has held and the many books he has written, most notably perhaps having edited the Oxford History of Christian Worship [2006].
Well done Littleworth, BHGS and especially well done Geoff.
I would be grateful if you would acknowledge receipt of this e-mail and look forward to finding a feature article on Geoff on your web site.
Denis Davey
[ now married to Catherine Waddington , former head of Dodworth Junor School, and living in Heanton Punchardon, North Devon ].
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suetobin
10:02 AM on April 27, 2009
Hi, I love your website, it brought back lots of memories of my childhood in the 50's. I will come back and read some more later :-) Sue
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Tasker
01:18 PM on April 23, 2009
Hi
My ancestors come to live in Worsbrough there names are George Moore kitching born about 1865 Keadby Lincs his daughter Jane Elizabeth Kitching born 1884 Crowle nick name Jinny wed a William Tasker born 1881 Feathersone fathers name Titus .
My ancestors come to live in Worsbrough there names are George Moore kitching born about 1865 Keadby Lincs his daughter Jane Elizabeth Kitching born 1884 Crowle nick name Jinny wed a William Tasker born 1881 Feathersone fathers name Titus .
