Barnsley Archives & Local Studies

Explore 850 years of Barnsley history with Barnsley Archives and Local Studies. Find us in @EBMuseum Barnsley Town Hall. #explorearchives

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Hello and goodbye!

Some of you might have noticed we have been quiet on here recently. This will be our last post on X. Come and join us over on Facebook where we are taking part in #Archive30

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A production of #TwelfthNight by students at Wentworth Castle Teachers' Training College in 1950

Read our blog about archives related to the college.
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Happy New Year to all of our visitors and online followers!

A New Year's Eve Party at St Edward's parish hall in 1937

We open again on Tuesday 6 January.

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#WinterWonderland is the #ArchiveAdventCalendar theme today

❄ Locke Park
❄ The Fleets
❄ Thurgoland
❄ Longcar Lane

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#ArchiveAdventCalendar In December 1941, Mrs Denton - a miner's widow, wrote to the Fitzwilliam Estate to ask about her Christmas coal allowance, given to miners from the Elsecar pits until nationalisation in 1947. #FestiveTraditions

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#ArchiveAdventCalendar A snowy @CannonHall1760 from the days that the Spencer Stanhope family lived there. The smoke coming out of the chimneys suggests a #WarmFire

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A Christmas party at Wombwell fire station in the 1950s

#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasParty

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A Christmas party at Wombwell fire station in the 1950s

#ArchiveAdventCalendar #ChristmasParty

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The #ArchiveElves have signed off for the day and we've just about done for the year too!

Thank you to everyone who has visited and supported us in 2025, we re-open on Tuesday 6 January. Merry Christmas! 🎄

#ArchiveAdventCalendar

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The #ArchiveElves are enjoying learning more about Ardsley, Stairfoot and Hoyle Mill #ArchiveAdventCalendar

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#ArchiveAdventCalendar The #ArchiveElves are looking through old editions of the Barnsley Chronicle

We hold the complete Barnsley Chronicle archive as well as having free access to the British Newspaper Archive

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#ArchivesElves is the #ArchiveAdvent theme today and Barnsley Archives have some new helpers.

We're assuming as they're working in the store that their elf and safety is up to date...

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#ArchiveAdventCalendar Who remembers this co-op #WrappingPaper and going to see Father Christmas at the grotto? 🎅

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#ArchiveAdventCalendar We don't know too much about this photo, which was possibly taken in the 1930s. Plenty of Christmas #decorations on show

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Cheapside at Christmastime
#ArchiveAdventCalendar #DarkNights

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.@thefleetman gave a brilliant talk about the UK Mines Rescue Service for the @BarnsCivicTrust last week which you can now watch in full on YouTube

https://t.co/ymbkDpFiil

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Guide to school records: https://t.co/iMhkD2QtzS

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Thurnscoe Hill Infant School Christmas nativity in 1985, do you recognise anyone in this photo?

We have records for many schools in the borough, there's more details in the link below.

#ArchiveAdventCalendar #Nativity

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#Nativity is the #ArchiveAdventCalendar theme today which links in perfectly with Day 9 of the #BarnsleyChristmas advent calendar

https://t.co/PopFhyUuXS

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✨These homemade nativity puppets were used by Elsie Hutchinson in school nativities in Darfield schools in the 1970s ✨

Behind door 9 of our advent calendar you can see a short video of the puppets in action!

🎅https://t.co/ONDclUc1Yt 🎄

#WeekXForXmas

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The #ArchiveAdventCalendar today is all about #FestiveFood

A WW2 recipe book which features a recipe for an eggless Christmas cake. The book was part of a fundraiser to buy a spitfire which was a success! More research is needed but the spitfire was called the Barnsley Chop.