Barnsley
What to see
You’ll find accounts of Barnsley’s tourist attractions and additional information on shopping, eating out etc at Visit Barnsley. For events coming up go to Visit Barnsley or Barnsley Civic.
Also in or near Barnsley:
● Cannon Hall Farm
● Cannon Hall Museum & Gallery
● Cooper Gallery
● Elsecar Heritage Centre
● Experience Barnsley
Towns of Two Halves extracts:
● “Finding a door closing softly and spontaneously behind me, I asked one of the ladies on duty in the gallery rooms whether the Hall was haunted. She replied that she had seen a ghost there herself, and had been inclined to doubt it until three firemen, not unduly impressionable, had seen it during a call-out.”
● “Experience Barnsley… an exuberant jumble of an exhibition, celebrating Barnsley at work (coal, iron, linen, glass) and play (heroes of Oakwell) down the ages. It’s free, authentic and lively.”
● “Over the road is St Mary’s church. In a small memorial garden adjacent there’s a plaque on the wall honouring the contribution of the people of Barnsley to the cause of democracy in the Spanish Civil War. You don’t see that often, do you? And just around the corner is an imposing sculpture commemorating a mining disaster. It is, still, Yorkshire.”
These are taken from the Barnsley chapter of Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To buy a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.