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Some of the articles in
Issue 71 - AUTUMN 2024
  • Growing up in Carlton
  • Fog, fire and a clock. Storrs Mill rail disaster
  • The Gothards of Eldon Street
  • Wentworth Castle Teacher training in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Chasing Steam - Dodworth Colliery
  • Second World War love story - Stan and Grace
  • News from 1924
  • Readers' pages
  • John Wesley visits Barnsley
Home Memories of Barnsley is a quarterly magazine which looks back over Barnsley’s past, filled with history, photos and stories of old Barnsley. With information researched from the Barnsley Chronicle and other sources, it recounts the events that shaped the lives of our ancestors.

You can subscribe to Memories of Barnsley by clicking the Subscribe link, and you can buy a full range of back issues from the Back Issues page.

You can also have your own memories of Barnsley published on the magazine's Readers' Page, along with any photographs you send in. Click on the Contribute link if you'd like to submit photos or write an article for the magazine; your photos will even be shown in our online Gallery.
At the mid-way point between Barnsley, Wakefield and Huddersfield sits High Hoyland, one of several local villages containing the name Hoyland meaning 'farm on a hill'.
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