Hi! Just found this video. My grandma used to have the hairdresser's next door to Gordon Denton on Agnes Road. Great memories!

Finally completed buying all their three 45's last weekend!

Cynth from barnsleyxx

And Tu fab bandxx

Hope this lad is ok I would love is otogreaf bless him what a drummerxx cynth from barnsleyxx

They were greatxx

What a band they were fabxx loved themxx

What a handxx fabxx

Some of the biggest mistakes Barnsley made. 1) Demolishing the ABC cinema on Peel Street. Before that it was The Ritz. I know the building was just a brick box but the wonderful art deco facade should have been listed. It looked beautiful when illuminated. 2) Getting rid of the big map in a glass box outside the town hall. You pressed black buttons along the bottom and bulbs lit up on the map to show you the location. 3) Getting rid of the neon stork sign. I believe it still exists in the Elsecar heritage centre. I suppose weather eventually destroys neon lights but I'd rather see a replica made and displayed in town. To be truthful I'm getting sick of Graham Ibbeson statues. I believe there should be variety where art's concerned, not a monopoly. 4) Demolishing the Alhambra. Such a beautiful frontage. That Alhambra shopping centre is an insult to the original building.

17:03 That's not Sophia Loren. It's a painting by an artist called Vladimir Tretchikoff. Prints of his paintings became very popular in the 1960s. They were for sale in the department stores like Debenhams and Rackhams etc. In recent times they've been considered kitsch but they're also very collectable now.

Great Video, would love to go in "King Arthur's Castle", all my family worked down the pits.

Used to go on the Barrow WMC trip when a worra kid ,great memories

Nostalgia is a powerful emotion.

Thank for this video, I have no affiliation with miners but am fascinated with mines and miners (was in the Royal Engineers so there is something there) To me the miners kept this country going . Thank you again and respect to all miners and their family’s.

Hi Dave could I possibly use some of this footage for my video ? With a credit ?

As my cousin mentioned above, the lady with the cigarette was our grandmother, May Needham. Their stall was next to Herbert Warner, who's stall appeared twice, at the beginning with the gold bought sign, and with the Leeds United picture. He was a big fan and actually had the FA cup on his stall when Leeds won it in 1972. We have a picture of our mam holding it. My mam and uncle had a material stall opposite Roseby's. Roseby's, or at least the name, became a nationwide business, of warehouses, before going out of business a few years ago. My brother and I would come with mam, in the school holidays, and go to the pictures at the Odeon. Happy days, and great to see my grandma again. Thanks.

There is a Austin A35 van in the colour part of the video and there is a letter C at the end of the number plate.That is a 1965 registration.

Spencer Gibbons, guitar player in the group, has written a book “some of us didn’t make it”…a rollicking read

Looks a rite fookin shithole !! Probably still is !

Think the horses were in regents park

I'm one of the few survivors from the Rotherwood days. Working the Woodhead Route was a real privilege. It used to cost one shilling in electricity to haul a train to Manchester. We had a fantastic time until we closed on the 18 July 1981.

Another fantastic dive into local history by Dave and his team . First class as always . my Grandad was one of the poor paddys who blasted their way under the pennines in 1952

I buy owt was on Doncaster Rd not on Agnes RD

7:03. My grandad ( Ken sheard) this is behind the Royal Arms pub on Wakefield road

False teeth story 😁😁

I sent this to my Dad who was brought up in Barebones. He's 91 now and tells some wonderful stories of growing up there. Rich with characters. He loved the video. Thank you

Thanks Dave, brilliant video 👍 My mum was born a Brigger in 1942. I'll show this to her...

Thanks for putting this up Dave. That lady at 16.33 is my Grandma. She had a heart of gold and would always ask my Grandad for a Park Drive. They lived in Sheffield but used to stand Barnsley markets on Wednesdays. Sadly they passed away in mid 80's. Brought tears to my eyes seeing her again. I'm now in my mid 70's.

Great video, miners unsung hero’s who really built Britain.

Great video- my ancestors lived in John Street and Wilson Street when they got married at Holy Rood Chapel in 1851

Well I am sat here in Australia and I have just gone down the biggest memory lane trip - my dad Brian Watkin was there with the men, we lived in Woolley Colliery, surrounded by good people, the Mine and the most beautiful bluebell woodlands, those were the days! God I miss this place still, so much love and respect for you all, I remember mum volunteering at the soup kitchen and helped to co write a book called living in the pit yard during these times... God bless Xx

This , or part of it can't be 1959 , the film begins with a wolseley 16/60 ,which replaced the tall finned 15/60 , in 1962 , also spotted cortina MK1s also 1962 , nevertheless a great film .

Bryan Panks who played with the New Travellers in the early 2000s passed away 12/1/24. His funeral is at Barnsley crematorium 20/2/24 10am.

Popped mi cherry tha noz😂

Interesting video. I live about 4 mins walk from where you were born! Anyway, a few years back, the Wosbro' Asda carpark 'buckled'. It was like the ski piste run! I wondered why it happened. After watching this video I believe it may be related to the old mine under the car park - which I never knew was there.

Love them what a bandxx

Wow they were fab❤❤

JUST WONDERING IF PAUL CAN REMEMBER THE FIRST NAME OF MR RAYNOR IN THAT FILM COS IVE GOT RELETIVES IN BARNSLEY CALLED RAYNOR

Cudworth had Bell pits, and the Cudworth seam was regarded as the highest quality. So, when they say that Cudworth was a mining village without a pit, they'd be wrong! It is probably no coincidence that it was a monk who first developed a pump system to remove water from coal mines (OK, not very deep pits). That monk was a local guy and was around many centuries ago. I found that little gem in the library at the National Coal Mining Museum.

THERE WAS A CO- OP ON CARLTON ROAD BARNSLEY WHEN I STAYED WITH MY GRANDMA AND GRANDAD RAWSONS ON RAVESFIELD DRIVE ALLUS WENT THERE COULD SEE THE CO- OP FROM MY GRANDMAS FRONT WINDOW I USE TO KNEEL ON SETEE WATCHING FOR LEETS GOING ARRT 12PM FOR THERE DINNER TIME AND GOING BACK ON AT 1 O'CLOCK ALLUS WENT SHOPPING THERE WITH ME GRANDMA

CAN YOU STILL GET A PINT THERE,--AND PIE & PEAS ??-

I worked at the Hospital in Barnsley from August '94 - August '95. Loved the town. I'm from Northern Ireland and it took me a little while to wrap my head around the local Barnsley dialect. Figured it out as where I'm from you only have to cross the road and folk have a different accent. Plus my area have a lot of folks who speak the Ulster Scots dialect. - Starving can mean hungry or cold. "I'll get me coit and me booeets." (I'll get my coat and my boots.) "Tin tin tin." (It isn't in the tin.) Etc. Last time I was back in Barnsley I'd lost the knack for the accent and needed subtitles. When I left Barnsley I ended up in Ashington in Northumberland and then had to figure out Geordie. - I left the North East after someone asked me something and I answered with, 'Why Aye Man.' I was becoming assimilated. Now I'm in Cheshire, surrounded by Plastic Scousers.

This film is post 1963. There are Sheffield buses in the film that were new in 1963.

Small point but Jack Taylor didn't referee the game. It was Ken Aston, who was best remembered for refereeing the Battle of Santiago between Chile and Italy at the 1962 World cup. He also took charge of the 1963 cup final. He actually mentions the Barnsley vs Leicester tie in his biography. But admittedly not in very favourable terms. He wrote "The English Third and Fourth Division clubs could be pretty brutal at times. A few months earlier I officiated a cup tie at Barnsley where I'd booked both Centre Halves in the first half hour and could easily have sent three or four of their players off [the cup tie vs Leicester] but this [Chile vs Italy] was like nothing I'd ever encountered before...."

Great video thanks

Xx

Dave the best Barnsley lad❤❤

Brilliant film containing much footage I have not seen before. I lived and worked in Sheffield for 25 years after living in Manchester for 28 and I know both ends of the line very well, having often travelled on my bike to Ashburys near Manchester to see the electrics. This was before the 25 kv lines were operational on the London route via Crewe. There was some thing magical, and I don't know why, about both the line and the EM2s and 1s. I also used to watch the passenger trains from Crowden across the valley snaking their way up to Woodhead and once walked the line from Penistone to Sheffield long after it had become disused. My overriding memory of that day is very sore feet.

very well said Dave thank you

Coal mining should have been phased out during the 1960s.