Aspects Of Barnsley

Author : Brian Elliot
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783378883

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Aspects of Barnsley 7 by Brian Elliot Pdf

The Aspects series takes the readers on a voyage of nostalgic discovery through their town, city or area. Following on from the success of Aspects of Barnsley 6, the series continues with Aspects of Barnsley 7. Brian Elliott offers the reader a chance to become re-acquainted with the forgotten by-ways of the social history in the Barnsley area. Aspects of Barnsley 7 contains a well researched and readable history from a variety of experienced and new authors. The topics include personal accounts of local businesses such as Needham Brothers and Station Taxis; Memories of a Barnsley Childhood by an American Resident; Excerpts from Royston School log Books; Johnny Westons Monk Bretton; New Insight Concerning 2 Worsborough Collieries; Some Characters of Old Darfield; Postcards from Barnsley; and The Ancient Place-Names of the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough. All of these are captivated with fantastic illustrations, in Aspects of Barnsley 7.

Author : Elliott Brian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1871647452

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Aspects of Barnsley by Elliott Brian Pdf

This, the fifth volume in the Aspects of Barnsley series is a remarkable achievement for a town and district having 'little history'. as Barnsley has been described. In this volume there are fifteen contributions and their nature has changed somewhat from that of its predecessors. In Aspects of Barnsley 5, there are a greater number of contributions which fall within the category of living memories and as such are more autobiographical in nature. In this volume, we travel from the Town Hall in wartime, to a history of the tramways of Barnsley. Then we read the early life of the Barnsley Cheese Factory, hotly pursued by memories of the Theatre Royal and rounding off with the disclosure of scandalous behaviour in Royston and the fate of the perpetrators before the 'Bawdy Courts'. KEY SELLING POINTS: l An updated version of a good selling formula l Excellent press and median coverage for the launch l The 'right' price range for the Christmas market EDITOR DETAILS: Brian Elliott is the series editor for the Aspects, Discovering Local History series which now includes some twenty titles either in print or due for early publication. In 1991, Brian was awarded a Master of Philosophy degree by the University of Sheffield for his research into Barnsley and its surrounding areas. His knowledge and enthusiasm for local and family history has encouraged contributors from a wide variety of backgrounds to contribute to the Aspects Series, which has made this unique and highly accessible range of books to be so successful.

Author : Wharncliffe Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Barnsley (England)
ISBN : 1871647274

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Aspects of Barnsley by Wharncliffe Books Pdf

Author : Tim Thornton,Cathy Doggett
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845631222

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Changing Barnsley by Tim Thornton,Cathy Doggett Pdf

'Changing Barnsley' looks at how the Yorkshire town has evolved, through the eyes of the former Mining and Technical College on Church Street, which now hosts Barnsley's very own university.

Author : Peter Tuffrey
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445649900

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Barnsley & District Through Time by Peter Tuffrey Pdf

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Barnsley and the surrounding area have changed and developed over the last century.

Author : Brian Elliot
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783036967

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South Yorkshire Mining Disasters by Brian Elliot Pdf

In the period that we now call the Industrial Revolution mining disasters wrecked the lives of thousands of South Yorkshire families and devastated entire communities. The Husker pit flooding of 1838 in which 26 young girls and boys were killed shocked Victorian society and and was a significant factor in the 1842 Report on Employment of Women and Children in Mines; but earlier, long forgotten disasters are also explored. The Barnsley area was particularly hard-hit during the middle decades of the century with major mining accidents, usually great explosions of firedamp occurring, for example, at Lundhill Colliery (189 men and boys killed); Oaks (361 fatalities, Britains worst pit disaster) and Swaithe Main (143 dead). Scenes of grief, mourning and remarkable heroism provided spectacular copy for Victorian newspapers and magazines such as The Illustrated London News, focusing on the very uncertain and dangerous life of the miner. Despite the importance and widespread occurrence of South Yorkshire mining disasters, which also included dreadful winding accidents and gas emissions, their story has never been told in a single volume.

Author : David Hey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473834354

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A History of the South Yorkshire Countryside by David Hey Pdf

South Yorkshire has some of the most varied countryside in England, ranging from the Pennine moors and the wooded hills and valleys in the west to the estate villages on the magnesian limestone escarpment and the lowlands in the east. Each of these different landscapes has been shaped by human activities over the centuries. This book tells the story of how the present landscape was created. It looks at buildings, fields, woods and moorland, navigable rivers and industrial remains, and the intriguing place-names that are associated with them.

Author : Warwick Taylor
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783036998

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South Yorkshire Pits by Warwick Taylor Pdf

The last 150 years has been the most tumultuous in the industrial history of South Yorkshire, and at the heart of this has always been mining and its allied industries. South Yorkshire Pits takes us from the beginnings of the industry, where land ownership brought wealth from what lay beneath it. Here, we have a concise record of the sinking, operating and eventual closure of the pits which, in January 1947, were taken over by the National Coal Board. There is also a clear record of the social and employment conditions under which the mines were operated, including child and female labour and the legislation abolishing them. This is an indispensable reference work for all interested in South Yorkshire's mining industry.

Author : Austin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802829757

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China's Millions by Austin Pdf

Banner-carrying Salvation Army marchers, stone-silent Quakers, jumpy Midwestern revivalists, and Prayer-book Anglicans all made up the mixed multitude sent to the Middle Kingdom by the China Inland Mission (CIM) in the nineteenth century. In China's Millions veteran historian Alvyn Austin crafts a compelling narrative of the sprawling history of the China Inland Mission. This book introduces readers to a remarkable array of sights, from the visionary, charismatic sect-leader Pastor Hsi, to the "wordless book," a missionary teaching device that fit perfectly with Chinese color cosmology, to the opium-soaked aftermath of the North China Famine of 187779. Clear, readable, and well researched, China's Millions digs deeply into the Chinese and Western past to tell a story of the strange yet hopeful result of two cultures colliding. - Publisher.

Author : Rowland Jackson (of Barnsley.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590530625

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The history of the town and township of Barnsley, in Yorkshire by Rowland Jackson (of Barnsley.) Pdf

Author : Kate Taylor,Coral M. P. Taylor
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781903425725

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Not So Merry Wakefield by Kate Taylor,Coral M. P. Taylor Pdf

Talks about the life and times of a Wakefield woman in the late twentieth century with substantial local historical information. This book aims to echo Henry Clarkson's memories of Merry Wakefield (1887), but with more sombre overtones reflecting experiences of single parenthood, and the trauma of a fatal car accident, but with good times too.

Author : Roger Glister
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903425381

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The Forgotten Canals of Yorkshire by Roger Glister Pdf

'The Forgotten Canals of Yorkshire: Wakefield to Swinton via Barnsley' is part of the canal series in 'Transport Through the Ages', brought to you by Wharncliffe Books. This fascinating book traces the nostalgic journey of the canal boats through the ages. As an illustrative history, 'The Forgotten Canals of Yorkshire: Wakefield to Swinton via Barnsley', is based on a unique collection of photographs collected by the late Alan Hall. They illuminate the Barnsley Canal and the Dearne and Dove Canal not only in their working years but also in their decline and eventual abandonment. Most of the photographs have not been published before and demonstrate very poignantly the official vandalism that befell the canals fifty years ago. Our industrial heritage was wilfully destroyed and important archaeological features were obliterated in the name of progres. Take yourself on a nostalgic journey through the pictorial re-creation of the waterways of Yorkshire, as you read 'The Forgotten Canals of Yorkshire: Wakefield to Swinton via Barnsley'.

Author : Melvyn Jones,Joan Jones,Stephen Cooper
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526783028

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Wentworth Woodhouse: The House, the Estate and the Family by Melvyn Jones,Joan Jones,Stephen Cooper Pdf

It was the home of a knight, a baron, a viscount, two marquises and nine earls. The family had estates not only in South Yorkshire, but also in North Yorkshire, the Midlands and Ireland, at their greatest extent covering nearly 120,000 acres. One head of household was beheaded. Another saw one of the last wolves in the British Isles. One owner built the Palladian mansion at Wentworth, which has the longest frontage of any country mansion in Britain, and was one of the earliest growers of pineapples in this country. One head of family was prime minister. Twice. Another provided financial assistance to more than 6,000 of his Irish tenants and their families to emigrate to Canada during the Great Famine. Another had a christening attended by 7,000 official guests. Yet another bought an ocean liner to go and search for buried treasure in the Pacific. This copiously illustrated book explores the history of the house, the estate and the family over more than 400 years, drawing on a wide variety of sources, particularly the family records (the Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments) held in Sheffield Archives.

Author : Jane Ainsworth
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526745743

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Victims of the Oaks Colliery Disaster 1847 by Jane Ainsworth Pdf

This new book has developed as a result of the author Jane Ainsworth's deep interest in her coal mining ancestors - both paternal great grandparents, Charles Ernest Hardy and Edwin Hall Bailey, worked in collieries in the Barnsley area as did their descendants. At the end of 2017, Jane transcribed a ledger containing the minutes of the Colliers’ Relief Fund Committee for the 1847 Oaks Colliery Explosion for Barnsley Archives. This stimulated her empathy and curiosity about the lives of the people referred to in the minutes - widows, orphans, and a few survivors of the disaster – as well as the 73 victims. She was determined to research all of the individuals in as much detail as possible, despite the challenge of limited early records, to flesh out their stories and to pay tribute to the families of mineworkers whose lives at that time were considered of little value to the colliery owners and managers. Once again, Jane has created "a memorial book like no other" as a contribution to Barnsley’s mining heritage.

Author : Melvyn Jones
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473880795

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South Yorkshire Mining Villages by Melvyn Jones Pdf

Over a period of more than 150 years between the late eighteenth century and the 1930s the South Yorkshire rural landscape was transformed by coal mining and the movement of coal. But it was not just the development of collieries, canals and railways that caused this transformation. The population of the coalfield grew at a phenomenal rate and the new mining population, many of them migrants from other parts of the country, had to be housed near to the collieries where they worked. Small residential colonies were built near the new collieries, existing rural villages expanded, new satellite villages were established and completely new mining communities were created, the later ones carefully planned and laid out in the form of geometrically designed estates. This copiously illustrated book explores the history of the physical and social development of these very varied mining communities, drawing on a wide variety of sources. It is the first book to cover this subject and includes topics such as the settlement that was specifically built for blackleg miners, the development in one village of a large Welsh-speaking colony, how Earl Fitzwilliam housed his colliers and their families and the views of well-known writers like Fred Kitchen, Roger Dataller and George Orwell on the colliery villages. The book will be of great interest not only to readers living in South Yorkshire but also to the descendants of South Yorkshire miners now living in other parts of the country and elsewhere.