Chief reporter Jack Tolson takes a look back through the Chronicle archives to August 1992
BARNSLEY, WARTS AND ALL, IMPRESSES YOUNG CZECHOSLOVAK VISITOR
CZECH student Pavel Cernosek has dubbed Barnsley marvellous after spending more than a week here on his first trip to the west.
Pavel, the 22-year-old son of a Prague bank executive, has been staying with Community Constable PC Michael Molloy and his wife Anne in Gawber after returning with them from an eight-day holiday in Czechoslovakia.
Pavel acted as a tour guide on the trip with Crusader Coaches when PC Molloy suggested there would always be a bed for him in Barnsley if he ever came to visit.
Pavel took him up on it.
Pavel, whose travels took him to Moscow and Austria before arriving in Barnsley, has been to York, Blackpool, The Lake District, Stratford, Meadowhall and Northumberland.
He goes back to Czechoslovakia tomorrow.
Mrs Molloy said: “Pavel has been overwhelmed by his first visit to the west.
“He shares a three-roomed apartment with his father, mother, two brothers and sisters, so he thinks our homes are wonderful.
“We have tried to show him Barnsley, warts and all, and Pavel has even been impressed with some of the less-appointed parts of town.”
ANNIE’S GOING ON CONCORDE - BUT SHE DOES NOT WANT TO MISS NIGHT AT THE CLUB
GREAT-grandmother Annie Bray’s first flight promises to be something special - aboard the supersonic jet Concorde.
Monk Bretton residents Mrs Bray, 80, who has never been to an airport in her life, is being treated by her two sons George and Robert, daughter Iris and their spouses.
The octogenarian’s wish is set to come true - after telling her daughter and sons she would love to go up in a plane.
So tomorrow she will be driven to Sheffield to catch a coach down to Heathrow for the 40-minute flight back to Leeds Bradford Airport with son-in-law Horace.
But Iris said Annie does not want to miss her regular Saturday night out at West Green Working Men’s Club so she wants the pilot to land in the club’s car park if necessary to ensure she makes it.
YOUR FRIDAY FAVOURITE’S IN DEMAND IN ETHIOPIA
COPIES of this week’s Barnsley Chronicle are set to be sent thousands of miles - to Ethiopia.
Your Friday favourite is sent weekly to countries such as Australia, Canada and Germany where former Barnsley people have settled.
But five Ethiopians who took part in Sunday’s Barnsley Six road race asked for copies to be mailed to them in Addis Ababa.
Copies of this week’s paper, which includes in-depth coverage of the race by our sports staff on pages 34 and 35, are to be mailed to contestants Bedaso Turubea, Fakadu Degefu, Getanah Tesema, Toloso Gebrea and Gezaghne Biri.
