Chronicle chief reporter Jack Tolson delves into the archives to find out what was making the news 25 years ago.
IT”S FREE PORKING FOR PIES
PORK pie fan Ken Pattison is lining up Barnsley’s most exciting transfer deal since Craig Hignett.
The former Athersley man is offering free car parking for the match at Gillingham next Saturday to dans who can provide him what he misses most about his hometown - pork pies.
He left Barnsley in 1973 and says he has tasted dozens of southern pies but they just crumble in comparison to their Tyke rivals.
He said: “I don’t regret moving down south but I have to admit that I really do miss Barnsley’s fantastic pork pies.
“Nothing I’ve tried down here has ever come close to a good old Albert Hirst pie.”
Barnsley’s reigning pork pie champion - butcher Dennis Speed of Monk Bretton - has promised 12 pies to one fan who makes the trip.
CHARLIE MARKS TIME ON GARAGE PROBLEM
CHARLIE Saunders’ big car has left him with a big problem.
He is the proud owner of a 1969 Jaguar Mark 10 - one of the widest and longest British cars ever built.
He has already spent months restoring the classic car which he eventually hopes to enter in races all over the country.
But with the winter approaching, he needs somewhere to work on it away from the wind, rain and snow.
The problem is that it’s too big to fit in an ordinary-sized garage and he has had to park on the garden of his home in Worsbrough Common.
He said: “The Jaguar is enormous.
“It’s 17-feet long so it’s too big for a normal garage and that is the problem for me because it needs to maintaining all year round.
“If I can’t find a suitable garage, it will have to stay on the garden over the winter but that could cause some damage.”
THE ENERGETIC LIFE OF BRIAN
SPRIGHTLY Brian Glennon thinks nothing of cycling 150 miles a day - even though he’s 79 years old.
He has been riding all his life and goes cycling at least three times a week - regularly as far as Ripon and Beverley back on his bike.
A couple of months ago he was the oldest cyclist to take part in a 60-mile ride in the Peak District to raise money for Barnardo’s - and he rode the 15 miles to the starting point on the outskirts of Sheffield from his home in Monk Bretton.
He told the Chronicle: “I don’t have a car, there are enough cars on the road so I go everywhere on my bike.
“If I want some shopping I walk down to Asda and back up again.
“I suppose I am quite fit, but I do have an ulcer so I have to be careful.”
A member of the Barnsley Road Club, he also rides with a cycling club called the Autumn Tints - a group of veteran cyclists from all over the area.
“I’m not the oldest there but I do more miles than a lot of them because we tend to go cycling in the Yorkshire Dales and most of them come from the Leeds and Bradford areas - I’ve got to cycle further to get there.”
