LOOKING very smart in their uniforms are pupils of Barnsley Girls’ High School in 1922. We can only identify Jessie Hollinshead who is second from the left on the back row. Her father, Alfred Hollinshead, worked at Barrow Colliery and we have a photograph in which he is seen with some of his workmates, third from the right on the back row. Alfred was general secretary of the Yorkshire Winding Enginemen’s Association. He died in 1923. Do any of our readers recognise any of the men on the photograph? Information to Kath Parkin, Barnsley Chronicle Editorial Department, 47 Church Street, Barnsley. It’s believed that at least two of the men died in the Barrow Colliery disaster on November 15 1907. Seven men perished that day when they were thrown from an ascending cage after it began to swing violently. They fell 60 to 70 feet to the bottom of the pit shaft and died . Six others were injured, three of them seriously. Brian Wilson, who brought the photographs into the Chronicle offices, said his grandfather, Henry Wilson, also worked at the colliery. He was under-manager. His great-grandfather lost his life in an explosion at Higham Deep pit on February 15 1860.
