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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.
The obelisk at the southern end of Birdwell was constructed in 1775 to mark the three-mile distance to Wentworth Castle at Stainborough. The obelisk was struck by lightening on 6 June 1906 but remains in its place today.
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