A DELIGHTFUL photograph of schoolchildren who attended Market Street school, Hoyland, in about 1919-1920 has been submitted to Memories.

One of them is John (Jack) Hall, second from the right on the front row, who was a member of a family of wholesale greengrocers.

It was loaned to us by Jack’s daughter Mary Marren. Jack died in September 2007 aged 93. “He was a wonderful man and I miss him terribly,” said Mary. The Hall family have run a wholesale greengrocery business for 300 years and it continues with members of the family running shops in the Hoyland area. “My grandad and his father before him were involved in the business and there have also been uncles and cousins,” said Mary.

Jack was the third youngest in a family of seven. His mother Constance died aged 28, shortly after giving birth to twins. One of the twins named Gertie survived but the other, Dorothy, died.

Mary has also loaned to us a photograph of a Christmas Remembrance Service from St Helens RC School, Hoyland, taken around 1929. Mary’s mother, also named Mary, (later Mary Hall) is on the back row on the extreme left with long dark hair.

Kath Cutts is next to her and Mary McNunty is fourth from the right on the back row. Annie McDermot is fourth from the left on the back row and Ina Cotterill is on the extreme right on next to the back row.

Do any of our readers recognise any of the other children on either of the photographs? If so, contact Kath Parkin, Barnsley Chronicle.

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