BarnsleyandFamily

The Alhambra Centre on the edge of town

 

This building used to be THE place to shop in Barnsley, Butterfields and Massies. This was the store where pupils from Barnsley Girls's High School had to to buy their uniforms ( I should say their parents did).

 

 

Cheapside in the centre of Barnsley.

The Yorkshire Traction Travel Offices ~ to the right is the entrance to the Bus Station.

Park Grove - a residential area of Barnsley, these houses are approximately 100 years old.  When I was young, it was known as a "posh" part of Barnsley, it still is a very pleasant place to live.

Locke House Barnsley, is a comparitively new building and houses part of the Department of Social Security.   

The YMCA Barnsley, which plays a very important part of in the lives of the young people of Barnsley and surrounding area.  To the top right of the picture (open windows) are the studios of YMCA Radio Barnsley.

 

                     music ~ "Don't Fence Me In" (an appropriate choice)