Experience Barnsley

Poet In Lockdown Ian McMillan

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I Grew Up In The 80s virtual exhibition at Experience Barnsley

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Routed In Barnsley: Stories from the town centre

ROUTED: My Barnsley 'snapshot' memories wanted for exhibition and trail

The Grimethorpe Colliery Band.

Barnsley, the bold as brass town where Sir Michael Parkinson was born and the Ar...

A Family of Artists exhibition has been turned into a virtual tour at Cannon Hall Museum near Barnsley

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HISTORY: Joann Fletcher, who is hosting workshops for pupils, with an ancient Egyptian dagger with an ivory handle from 1600BC, part of an exhibition in Barnsley. PIC: Scott Merrylees

Pupils to learn about ancient link to Yorkshire

A new exhibtion has opened in Barnsley charting cricket umpire Dickie Bird's career.

Jayne Dowle: Celebrate town, but don't revert to stereotypes

John Riley, who was the youngest rescuer in 1866, seen here in later life. (John Timms).

England's worst pit disaster - The day tragedy came to South Yorkshire pit commu...

Experience Barnsley museum curator Stephen Miller with a pit pony's foot, recovered from the disaster and turned into an ink well. Picture: Scott Merrylees.

Human cost of Barnsley mining disaster told in new exhibition

Stephen Miller is a community officer for the Dearne Valley Landscape Partnership.

My Yorkshire: Stephen Miller from the Dearne Valley Landscape Partnership on his...

Jemma Conway, Barnlsey Council's audience development officer, with one of the glass panels.

Unique public art will honour Barnsley's Somme fallen

Experience Barnsley's Emily Chalkley with 'L'Ecolier' and 'La Polonaise' by Jean Baptiste Greuze , two of a number of works on show at their new exhibition, 'Meet the Harveys' which aims to inform visitors more about one of the towns most influential and generous families. Picture Scott Merrylees

Jayne Dowle: Now the South's plundering our cultural gems

Show charts the treasures and history of benefactors

The Rev Fiona Kouble, of Christ Church Ardsley, at Barnsley Main Colliery. The pit sits on the site of the former Oaks Colliery, the scene of worst mining disaster in English history which killed over 380 miners and rescuers in Dec 1866.

We will not forget the hundreds killed in pit tragedy
IT WAS a disaster which still resonates in Barnsley today.

Exhibitions officer Alison Morton with a ruby epergne. Picture: Scott Merrylees

In Barnsley, where there’s muck, there’s glass

The war diary of Fred Jackson from Thurlstone, at The Road to War exhibition at Experience Barnsley

Journey back on road to war  with dip into town’s archives

Museum’s first birthday marks boom time for Barnsley tourism

Museum curator Jemma Conway with shirts worn at the time of the 1984-85 miners strike

Video: A strike that defined the lives of women

Barnsley Archives officer Paul Stebbing.

Now its easier to look up archive’s school memories

Visitors to museum give Barnsley trade boost

Arthur Bower, Barnsley FC historian, with the rattle he first took to a game in 1949

Umpire joins countdown to opening of ‘magnificent’ social history museum

Archaeologist Joann Fletcher at Scout Dike Reservoir, where the Neolithic axe head was found

Neolithic ‘doorstop’ axe on show at town’s new museum

Warning over access to town hall

Historic fire pump back home after four decades

Creation of people’s history museum limps onwards
THE TRANSFORMATION of a Yorkshire town hall into a £3m social history museum is slowly moving forwards, with the submission of new planning applications.

Jayne Dowle: Behind the scenes at a new kind of museum