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Glancing Back - March 1998

RESTORATION CAMPAIGN: Vin English with Couns Janine Moyes and Martin O’Donoghue.

Group on a mission to keep canal’s history in focus

ANNIVERSARY: Well-wishers gathered on Cresswell Street, Pogmoor, on Tuesday. Picture: Scott Firth.

Selfless airmen remembered in moving ceremony

Ian Harley and Melvyn Lunn with the Mayor of Barnsley, Coun David Leech and the Mayoress, Alison Leech.

Village’s many war heroes celebrated in new book

Joseph Bramah

Revolutionary inventions of Barnsley's Joseph Bramah

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Repair work set to be fast-tracked at historic building

ADDITION: Couns Joe Hayward and Dave Leech with Experience Barnsley’s Paul Stebbing.

Local war medals donated to museum

Councillor Jake Lodge

Borough remembers 150th anniversary of pit disaster

Graham Burton with the medal.

‘Hero’s medal should be back with family’

LIVES REMEMBERED: Coun Jake Lodge, Maureen Gennard and Peter Fairham.

Mining disaster anniversary marked

HERITAGE: The trail has now been completed. Picture: Andrew Copley.

Heritage is celebrated with new trail

AWARD: Dave Cherry at the town hall.

Barebones movie attracts full house

REMEMBERED: Alfred Brown (left).

Alfred’s story of bravery shared by great grandson

REMEMBERED: Stephen Ayre with the display at Cawthorne Museum. Picture: Andrew Copley.

Display highlights war pilot brothers’ heroics

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Treasured history is celebrated

Barebones dates scheduled in

PIT WHEEL: The hidden Birdwell pit wheel, Coun Andy Wray would like to see it re-sited. He is pictured with Keith and Val Taylor.

Hold-up worry in plans to move mining monument

CENTENARY: Coun Joe Hayward with Mayor of Barnsley Coun Dave Leech and mayoress Alison.

Re-dedication will mark war memorial centenary

UNVEIL: John and Sir Hugh Dundas’ incredible stories were honoured on Monday. Picture: Charlotte Oldroyd.

Brothers remembered at blue plaque unveiling

LIVES REMEMBERED: Coun Jake Lodge, Maureen Gennard and Peter Fairham. Picture: Seth Rose.

Pit disaster tragedy remembered 150 years on...

RACE AGAINST TIME: The historic engine’s in need of restoration - but the time’s ticking.

Race against time for historic engine restoration

UNVEILING: The plaque was unveiled on Friday. Pictured are Geoff Hutchinson, Couns Kevin Osborne and Pauline Markham and MP Stephanie Peacock.

Blue plaque celebrates couple’s courageous romance

UNVEILING: Council leader Sir Steve Houghton with Mayor of Barnsley Dave Leech.

Town’s mining past celebrated with statue

Historian and You tube film maker Joshua Daniels is out and about around Barnsley following new trails that made Barnsley. Picture Shaun Colborn PD094404

Walk in the footsteps of esteemed missionary

MEMORIAL: Bob Hawes. Picture: Andrew Copley.

Disaster which killed 19 ‘should never be forgotten’

MEMORIAL: The area was unveiled last week. Picture: Andrew Copley.

Mining disaster tribute revamped

BLUE PLAQUE: Steve Tindale, Coun Kevin Osborne, Ian McMillan and Ken Brookes. Picture: Andrew Copley.

Blue plaque plan to honour ‘two remarkable people’

MEMORIAL: Stewart at the site in Nabs Wood.

Pit disaster remains on curriculum far afield

GLANCING BACK: Coun Robin Franklin.

Archives now show old miners’ documents

MEMORIAL: The event took place last week.

Special memorial event commemorates pit explosion

OPEN DAY: Connie Neadmore.

Open day proves popular at former colliery site

APPEAL: Coun Janine Moyes is attempting to trace the relatives of Herbert Smith. Picture: Charley Atkins.

Historians bid to trace family of NUM official

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New generation shows appreciation on VE Day anniversary

END OF AN ERA: Paul Wilkinson with the first - and last - issues of Memories of Barnsley.

Final issue for popular nostalgia magazine

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What are your favourite town centre memories?

Addison Batten with his winning design.

Modern logo to celebrate mill’s long history

Firefighter Bryan Lawrence with Zab.

Glancing Back - March 1999

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Specialist engineers approved to carry out urgent mill work

Pictures featured in the Chronicle the week miners returned to work.

Pride remains 40 years on from end of strike

The lime tree which was ripped.

Glancing Back February 1980

IMPORTANT: Historic England’s Bryan Davies, MP Dan Jarvis and Peter Stevenson at Grimethorpe Hall.

Future looking brighter for historic hall

UNDER THREAT: MP Stephanie Peacock visited Grimethorpe Hall with representatives from Barnsley Council and Historic England.

Group pledges to preserve historic hall’s future

Angry mums marched on the town hall over nursery education facilities.

Glancing Back to the news of February 1970

Local historian Steve Wyatt with author Hilary Robinson.

Chronicle helps tell shocking murder story

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Yorkshire - A Story of Invasion, Uprising and Conflict

MURAL: Adam Briscoe.

New mural will celebrate mill’s long history

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Historic mill’s 400-year story will continue

REMEMBER: Coun Kevin Osborne remembers the ten men who were killed at Houghton Main Colliery in 1886, when the winding rope snapped and the cage fell down the shaft. Picture Shaun Colborn PD093779

Mining accident victims remembered