O/T Old Barnsley In Colour

[pass_and_move]

Spot on Pass.

The Navvies "homes" were just transit camps as they moved on from one section of the line/ canal to the next.

After a hard days graft they enjoyed a drink in local ale houses. Parents locked up their daughters.

"We are the Navvies, we'll sup where we want". The chavs of today would run a mile if they approached.

correct SB

[animallittle3]

Absolutely Animal. The largest drop from the railway level of the viaduct to floor is 108ft. It's an mazing structure and approaching 150 years old, something that most people wouldn't really appreciate. Architecture is of a big interest to me. The construction of the entire railway network back in the 1800s is mindblowing. The canals even more so in the 1700s.

The Navvies who did all the spadework, construction and tunnel blasting with, as you say, basic equipment are heroes in my eyes and deserve much more recognition in what was a revolutionary part of British history. Ok, their reputation for drinking heavily and general unruly behaviour casts them in a negative light which is unfortunate considering their achievements
and the squalor that they lived in (shanty towns due to much of their work being carried out in rural areas). Many men died or were seriously injured working in horrendous conditions but their legacy lives on. The amount of civil engineering work undertaken by these people was colossol.


People say that the Internet was a huge invention that revolutionised the world which is true. However, people tend to overlook and underestimate what the invention of the railways brought. It literally changed everything from how people lived to the transportation of goods and mail etc. We invented a transport system that revolutionised the world that we live in today.

Would have been nice that our own viaduct could have been preserved that stood just off Rotherham Road at Cundy Cross .

Nowt there to this day where it once stood until it's demolition in 1968 .

Not so sure they'd get away with doing that today .

[pass_and_move]

To be fair we still have Pen is tone which is as impressive as Denby Dale

[animallittle3]

To be fair we still have Pen is tone which is as impressive as Denby Dale

Think it was a canal viaduct Pass which would have made it quite rare today .

[Young_Nudger]

Had a word with Sir Steve today - and thanked him for doing a great job with the current town centre.

There have been many features in Barnsley that our town councillors should have saved from destruction (as many other towns have done) but there’s no getting away from it that Barnsley is a great place to be right now.

[animallittle3]

Volume 25


https://youtu.be/Pjhh1ma1-5E?si=0y4fnz_SRdNT2OX3

[animallittle3]

Volume 26

Looking through these fascinating photographs yes much has changed but quite a bit hasn't .

Many of the villages have hardly changed , just the roads and change in shops or businesses .

https://youtu.be/t5ymtMrQ4TE?si=KKoqfNl2OckJDJyg

[pass_and_move]

Keep em coming. I were walking up Sheffield Rd at Hoyland common last Tuesday morning wi a hangover after mi Dad's funeral and that row of terraced houses look just the same now as on the photograph. At least I think they do

[animallittle3]

Volume 27


https://youtu.be/jGF-F_WQSf4?si=3CzMpAB1xHEoGSK8

[animallittle3]

Volume 28

Isn't it incredible when you look through these fascinating photos that almost every village had a railway station that probably linked up all the area .

A bit of a London Overground system if you will .

What wouldn't the average motorist myself included give to commute to work every day on such a local system instead of the head banging traffic chaos every evening .

You couldn't make it up could you .


https://youtu.be/tYzPD_J_IAg?si=PXgAaODIDxt8Rtuh