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END OF AN ERA: Paul Wilkinson with the first - and last - issues of Memories of Barnsley.

Final issue for popular nostalgia magazine

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What are your favourite town centre memories?

Addison Batten with his winning design.

Modern logo to celebrate mill’s long history

Firefighter Bryan Lawrence with Zab.

Glancing Back - March 1999

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Specialist engineers approved to carry out urgent mill work

Pictures featured in the Chronicle the week miners returned to work.

Pride remains 40 years on from end of strike

The lime tree which was ripped.

Glancing Back February 1980

IMPORTANT: Historic England’s Bryan Davies, MP Dan Jarvis and Peter Stevenson at Grimethorpe Hall.

Future looking brighter for historic hall

UNDER THREAT: MP Stephanie Peacock visited Grimethorpe Hall with representatives from Barnsley Council and Historic England.

Group pledges to preserve historic hall’s future

Angry mums marched on the town hall over nursery education facilities.

Glancing Back to the news of February 1970

Local historian Steve Wyatt with author Hilary Robinson.

Chronicle helps tell shocking murder story

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Yorkshire - A Story of Invasion, Uprising and Conflict

MURAL: Adam Briscoe.

New mural will celebrate mill’s long history

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Historic mill’s 400-year story will continue

REMEMBER: Coun Kevin Osborne remembers the ten men who were killed at Houghton Main Colliery in 1886, when the winding rope snapped and the cage fell down the shaft. Picture Shaun Colborn PD093779

Mining accident victims remembered

Dennis Higgs with his lion, Ben.

When Barnsley took a walk on the wildside ...

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South Yorkshire Mining Villages - A History of the Region’s Former Coal Mining Communities

Paul Harris, graphic design tutor at Barnsley College and Sally Elkington, sector specialist officer at Worsbrough Mill.

Project to celebrate mill’s anniversary

DNA check leads family on wartime voyage of discovery

NEW BEGINNING: Klaudia and Richard Cairnes.

New church inspired by missionary story

Coun Robin Franklin

Christmas carol film to premiere at Parkway

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Newly-installed gateways celebrate Dearne’s past

BARNSLEY POSTCARDS: Jane Ainsworth along with paul stebbing and the postcards from the first world war. Picture Shaun Colborn PD093660

Poignant wartime postcards to go on display

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Fury over sale of war memorials

CELEBRATION: Frank (far right) finally made sure the medal was reunited with Thomas Hoburn’s family. He is pictured with the war veteran’s great-great niece Carol Connell, her husband John, and the RBL’s Anthony Moffett.

Frank’s mission to reunite family with war medal

ROMAN RUINS: Coun Robert Barnard at the site. Picture Shaun Colborn PD093665

Roman period ruins now officially ‘at risk’

LOOK BACK: Barnsley residents paid their respect on D-Day. Picture: Finn Smith.

Remembrance services planned across the borough

SURVIVAL PACKAGE: Councillors Roy Bowser and John Clarke at Worsbrough Mill. PD093648

Mill’s troubles over after funding is secured

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Architecture students step in to help at crumbling Grade II-listed stately home

FILM’S DEBUT: Wayne Sables.

Film to explore pit village link to Indian Ocean island

Local historian brings Barnsley Pal’s postcards home to town

HISTORY ENTHUSIAST: Bryan Danforth.

New book explores mystery of how to spell village name

PERMANENT HOME: Connie Ashton with the standard.

RBL standard gets a new home

Christine Minto

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Pedalling back to yesteryear ...

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Can you help Trevor in search?

‘Horror of losing two children haunted my family forever’

Rev Fiona Kouble, Olive Shaw and Janice Driffill.

Cromwellian church to share its long history

MEMORIAL: Anthony Baker.

Crush victims remembered with plaque

SPEAKER: Paul Stebbing of the council’s archives team will be one of the speakers when the blue plaque is unveiled at the NUM offices on Huddersfield Road. Picture: Finn Smith.

Blue plaque commemorates refugees’ arrival

GRAND PLANS: Artist impressions of Barnsley Civic’s front entrance.

Grand reopening planned at historic theatre

Matthew Nicholson at Bullhouse Chapel.

Historic chapel lines up special heritage days

ONLINE: Thousands of files uploaded archivists Katy Best and James Stevenson with some of the ledgers that have now been digitised, and can now be viewed at most libraries. Picture Shaun Colborn PD093440

Old court records available online

Deangate Care Home’s Veteran Friendly Framework (VFF) champions Rachael Addy, Chantelle Peacock, Samantha Tasker, Rachael Dawson, and Diane Childs.

Veteran-friendly status awarded to care home

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Moves to preserve ‘at risk’ WWII anti-aircraft battery

AIRMAN REMEMBERED: Sgt Alfred Mortimer who lost his life when the ww2 bomber he was navigating was shot down by a German ace was remembered in Thurnscoe on Thursday. Picture Shaun Colborn PD093432

Ceremonies remember fallen hero at home and abroad

UNSUNG HEROES: Brian Ware, Helen Kelly, Rosemary Johnson and her husband David.

BBC series to spotlight stately home’s unsung heroes

PLEDGE: Labour members discuss what’s next in the long search for answers over the Battle of Orgreave.

New push for ‘Battle of Orgreave’ truth - forty years on

Work on the sea dike is underway.

Netherlands operation underway to recover Thurnscoe airman’s remains