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Some of the articles in
Issue 73 - Spring 2025
  • Remembering the year 1940
  • Darton Hall Secondary Modern School 1950s
  • Steam at Grimethorpe Colliery
  • St Mary's School 1930s
  • The Old YMCA
  • Miners and the Great War
  • Townend Park 1905
  • News from 1925
  • Readers' pages
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 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.
This view looking along High Street, Hoyland shows the old Post Office building. The increase in motor traffic means that the area is now subject to a one-way system. The older buildings on the left hand side of the photo have been replaced.
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