HERE’S a selection of stories as they appeared in the Chronicle back in July 1991.
A ROYSTON man’s efforts to raise money for charity have come to a halt after Barnsley Council served him with a writ, followed by an injunction to prevent him operating the car boot sales he was holding on his own land at Barugh Green.
Chris Taylor, of Lee Lane, Royston, wanted to raise money to help Romanian orphans, children in Africa and the Church of England’s Urban Cities Fund.
Helped by a committee from his local church, every penny made was being put into a special account at Royston Parish Church.
But Barnsley Council’s legal department claims the sales were in contravention of council policy which has been made to protect their own market traders.
A spokesman for the department said that car boot sales were classed as markets:
“The council has a policy of not allowing rival markets to set up. It is classed as a market whether it is a car boot sale or not.”
MORE than 400 people have so far signed a petition to save the closure-threatened Summer Lane sub Post Office, a public meeting was told on Tuesday.
The meeting was attended by about 220 people who put more than 50 questions to David Skipworth, Sheffield-based district services manager of the Post Office.
In the first seven days after the proposal to close the sub Post Office was announced, Mr Skipworth’s office received almost 60 letters of complaint which is double the number they have received in other areas where sub Post Offices have been proposed for closure.
POLLUTION has killed thousands of fish in a stretch of the River Dearne near Grange Lane, Stairfoot.
The National Rivers Authority is carrying out investigations and has estimated 8,000 small fish and a small number of large fish have been killed.
Secretary of Barnsley and District Anglers’ Association Tony Eaton said: “It is a great shame that this has happened. That particular stretch of water was polluted for years but has recently been cleaned up and fish had gradually built up.
IF medals were to be given for school attendance, then Rowena Barnes would be one of the first in line.
Rowena, the only daughter of Decima and Tom Barnes, of Melvinia Crescent, will be starting Kingstone Comprehensive School in September with a record of 100 per cent attendance since she started school in 1984.
A pupil at St Mary’s Church of England School, Stocks Lane, Rowena was once knocked unconscious in the school playground and was forced to stay in hospital overnight.
She did not break her record though, the accident happened on a Friday afternoon.
WELL-KNOWN Barnsley doctor, George Leslie Herbert, died suddenly in Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital on Tuesday, aged 71.
Dr Herbert retired from general practice in February 1983 after more than 35 years as a family doctor in Darton, Kexborough, Mapplewell, Cawthorne, Clayton West, High Hoyland and other small villages.
