Where did you laik as a bairn?

This quarry?

 

goldthorpe hotel, barnsley west end, dearne and district

 

goly rec,shaw lane, thurnscoe running track

 

As did I, on the rugby pitch next to Polar though - the pitch was better and more level than the football pitches.

 

Hoyland Common -
Parkside road playing fields for 25 a side all day sunday matches, the Town Hall field or the Forge with school, Spring and Bell Ground woods for bike tracks, dens and rope swings. Rockingham or milton pond for seeing how far out you could float yor mates bait box before he noticed and Sheaf Valley baths for summer holiday top board bombing deep in enemy country.

 

Thats where we went to play football.

On the street for other games . Then it was darn Shortwood and Cowgills fields. So long as we came home eventually and didn't cause any trouble we could do just abart what we wanted

 

Re: Warren Quarry Lane rec..now some council building on it

Rotherham road playing fields - gutted when they changed it to what it is now. Had all the rough grass around it and had the pond :-(

 

Raley or down the Willow

 

Yeah mate,ain't been on it for donkeys years,there used to be massive hills on the burton bank rd side of it,they were ace for playing army or sliding down on a nicked car bonnet from the scrap yard that used to be on the quarry.The hills were mostly flattened and all of it landscaped in the late 80's early 90's I think.

 

Me too. Who'd you play for?

 

Started at old Co-Op Ground, then Twibell Street (last time I was in the UK the field was still there but in a shocking state & no longer used for sport),
Holgate Fields (Top right hand field, Siberia - ridiculously windy), Carlton Park & Birdwell Rec

 

Mitchell's old coking plant was one place by the Dearne & Dove Canal and a bit further down the valley Mitchell's & Darfield Welfare cricket & football ground. The cricket ground flooded and was converted into a fishing pond in the mid- 60's. The football pitch lasted a bit longer but eventually flooded as Darfiled Main's slurry pond moved closer to the old railway. It is woodland now although a football pitch was created nearby. I do not think this is used any more. Times change!

 

Mainly on street in week not many cars about at all then in council estates only had to stop till bus passed then started ageean till next bus came,
Weekends school holidays in pit fields Barnsley main ,back of Oaks colliery monument (mony fields )

 

You'll remember "tar-pit" then? Once got a reyt clout of mi mam for coming home with mi shoes covered in bitumen.:biggrin:

 

Darfield main slurry pond...I remember laiking on a raft in that.We also used it as a scramble track on Manxtyke's placcy

 

Yes it used to melt quite a bit in hot days. Then there were the tubes which you could climb down into. the elf & safety boys would have a fit nowadays.

You would also be familiar with climbing the walls by the old canal bridge.

 

Spent hours in this field (behind the car) when "ar worra lad".

 

Near to this!

 

Can you remember this?