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Keith Healey
03:09 PM on January 31, 2012
Very good website, i was born in Barnsley and lived in and around the area for many years. Its was nice to see the pictures and comments. I am as they say an English man in not New York but Pennsylvania.
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john holden
02:15 PM on January 29, 2012
RE Barnsley tech school photo 1947 I have all the names that were missing and would be happy to identify most of the remaining pupils. I am enjoying the site, thank you and am new to the internet so I am still getting to grips with all this technology. my email is j.holden654@btinternet.com. I would be pleased if anyone would want to contact me , Johnny Holden from Goldthorpe attended Barnsley tech 47-49, Many thanks Johnny Holden.
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Margaret Murray
12:43 PM on January 14, 2012
My mums family came from Barnsley and I lived and went to school there for a while.
I am looking for a picture of 29 Honeywell Street and the old HolyRood school , any help as How I could get these will be much appreciated
I am looking for a picture of 29 Honeywell Street and the old HolyRood school , any help as How I could get these will be much appreciated
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Sue haigh
01:17 PM on December 21, 2011
Hi very interesting site ,my grandma and grandad lived at no 78 old mill lane they were Alice and Walter field ,with margaret their daughter (my mum)and Dennis who was tragically killed in the 60s with his wife Pauline.
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Julie Smith
06:14 AM on November 02, 2011
This is a great web site, very informative.
Nice to read the article on the Camplejohns, I am related to the Greenhow's who also had buses around this time. Dont suppose you have any information on them?
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Julie Smith (nee Greenhow)
Nice to read the article on the Camplejohns, I am related to the Greenhow's who also had buses around this time. Dont suppose you have any information on them?
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Julie Smith (nee Greenhow)
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Margaret Scott-Wright (nee Taheny)
10:28 AM on October 07, 2011
What a wonderful site you have made. Since finding it 2 hours ago, I still haven't got through half of it. I was born 1953 and the photos have truly taken me back home, although I only live in Bridlington, haven't been back for some time.
I would luv to see a photo of the Traffalgar Pub, if anyone has it, it was on the junction at the top of New Street, (known as the Irish pub!!). I spent my first 3 years there, I believe my dad was the last landlord there.
Thank you again for this site
Maggie X
I would luv to see a photo of the Traffalgar Pub, if anyone has it, it was on the junction at the top of New Street, (known as the Irish pub!!). I spent my first 3 years there, I believe my dad was the last landlord there.
Thank you again for this site
Maggie X
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Richard Litherland
09:11 PM on October 02, 2011
Hello... I have been looking long and hard for a website dedicated to Barnsley, all the while it has been sitting right under my nose.
Thank you for sharing such heart warming information and pictures of my home town.
Thank you for sharing such heart warming information and pictures of my home town.
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Ron Bradbury
08:19 PM on September 22, 2011
Thank you for your memories of Barnsley and District.
Although I am a tiny bit younger, all you have said and portrayed were exactly as I remembered them. as nothing seemed to change in those days,
I hear many people say " you can find loads of stuff on the net" but never want to contribute, my thanks to you for not being one of these.
I would hope that your memories will urge people on, to do the same, even if it just one old or new Photo (which a friend would gladly show them how to do it) to post on the Internet.
I was born and bred in Cudworth and still live there
Although I am a tiny bit younger, all you have said and portrayed were exactly as I remembered them. as nothing seemed to change in those days,
I hear many people say " you can find loads of stuff on the net" but never want to contribute, my thanks to you for not being one of these.
I would hope that your memories will urge people on, to do the same, even if it just one old or new Photo (which a friend would gladly show them how to do it) to post on the Internet.
I was born and bred in Cudworth and still live there
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09:27 PM on September 18, 2011
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stewart hoyle
05:40 AM on August 09, 2011
Hi Mary
Wile doing a bit of reserch I came across the following on the BBC Peoples Web Site .. . .everyone had a cushion or folded blanket to sit on. She was not concerned with our comfort so much as our health. She was afraid that if we sat on the cold concrete we would get kingcough in our bottoms. I never found out what this terrible disease could be. May be it was a corruption of whooping cough, although she pronounced that correctly when I had it a few years later. It was certainly nothing to do with haemorrhoids, because I was threatened with it in my chest several times and even in my back, for lying on the stone flags of her kitchen floor. .
On the compleat site there was only the one referance to kingcough ane the writer of the story came from Leeds . My mother used to tell me the same thing and asking Sandra her mother used to say the same thing to her . Other people who where born in different parts of the country have never heard the saying .
The fing is I would like to know if your mother told you the same thing . Can your readers remember the saying as well .
Stewart Hoyle
Wile doing a bit of reserch I came across the following on the BBC Peoples Web Site .. . .everyone had a cushion or folded blanket to sit on. She was not concerned with our comfort so much as our health. She was afraid that if we sat on the cold concrete we would get kingcough in our bottoms. I never found out what this terrible disease could be. May be it was a corruption of whooping cough, although she pronounced that correctly when I had it a few years later. It was certainly nothing to do with haemorrhoids, because I was threatened with it in my chest several times and even in my back, for lying on the stone flags of her kitchen floor. .
On the compleat site there was only the one referance to kingcough ane the writer of the story came from Leeds . My mother used to tell me the same thing and asking Sandra her mother used to say the same thing to her . Other people who where born in different parts of the country have never heard the saying .
The fing is I would like to know if your mother told you the same thing . Can your readers remember the saying as well .
Stewart Hoyle
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William john Gillispie
08:42 AM on July 13, 2011
Hi Philip Woofindin, are you any relation to Billy Woofindin he will be in his early seventies now, we used to have a skiffle group in Barnsley, and Billy used to play the wash board, we were not bad we won the Daily Scetch National Skiffle contest at the Ritz Cinema in Barnsley in 1958. Billy used to live in Mapplewell near the Kings Head Public House, please e-mail me if you have any information, at gillispie.john@gmail.com Regards W.J.Gillispie.
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William John Gillispie
08:31 AM on July 13, 2011
Philip Wooffindin says...
Just come across your wonderful site. What an excellent labour of love! As an exile I find it quite nostalgic. I am from Staincross and my wife, Jean, is from Dodworth
william John Gillispie says...
Hello brett bretton, I received your message regarding the name gillispie, there were two winders at North Gawber pit shafts one was my father, Albert Gillispie, and the other was his brother William Gillispie, I worked at North Gawber in the joiner,s workshop with Wilf Bretton who lived up New Road Staincross, I left in 1n 1959 to work for Vernon Dunk, in summer lane Barnsley. regarding my brother Roger, he used to help Jack Ellis to at night preparing his meat , Roger worked at the Coop butchers at new lodge, regarding request for photo,s of North Gawber I have an arial photo of North Gawber and monkey park, I was going to send it to the village hall in Mapplewell, but I never got around to sending it, it,s taken in 1952, if you let me have your e-mail I could contact you. regards W J Gillispie.
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william John Gillispie
07:02 AM on July 07, 2011
Hello brett bretton, I received your message regarding the name gillispie, there were two winders at North Gawber pit shafts one was my father, Albert Gillispie, and the other was his brother William Gillispie, I worked at North Gawber in the joiner,s workshop with Wilf Bretton who lived up New Road Staincross, I left in 1n 1959 to work for Vernon Dunk, in summer lane Barnsley. regarding my brother Roger, he used to help Jack Ellis to at night preparing his meat , Roger worked at the Coop butchers at new lodge, regarding request for photo,s of North Gawber I have an arial photo of North Gawber and monkey park, I was going to send it to the village hall in Mapplewell, but I never got around to sending it, it,s taken in 1952, if you let me have your e-mail I could contact you. regards W J Gillispie.
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William John Gillispie
06:35 AM on July 07, 2011
brett bretton says...
Has anyone any photos of the old 32 steps over the canal, or the North Gawber pit.
Also, those old pit ponies--Carr Green lane and Monkey park.
Has anyone any photos of the old 32 steps over the canal, or the North Gawber pit.
Also, those old pit ponies--Carr Green lane and Monkey park.
Also, those old pit ponies--Carr Green lane and Monkey park.
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V Weller
07:06 PM on July 05, 2011
A fascinating and informative site. It brought back a few memories to this Cawthorne girl and ex-BGHS student.
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