Barnsley (Town) facts you didn't know

THE FIRST BOTTLE BANK
The UK got its first bottle bank in the summer of 1977, when Stanley Race, the then-Chairman of the Glass Manufacturers’ Federation, deposited an empty jam jar in Barnsley.

 

I'll give you a related fact, they were painted 'Amulet' green. We got the job of refurbing the damaged ones.

 

Stanley Race - my mum was his wife's carer.

 

The Royston accent is audibly different to the rest of Barnsley due to the large community of Midlands/Black Country miners that lived there in the late 1800s.

 

I played up front for Fulchester Rovers, with his son Roy

 

But some of us do know.

 

We all knew this surely its our heritage

 

The lost his bottle *ank is located in front of a blank TV screen in East Stand concourse....

 

99.999% of the worlds population does not know that Barnsley is the greatest place on this planet & that is a fact.

 

Very true, I was born and bred in Royston from a family of miners me being the only exception as the only lad not to go darn pit in 150+ years.
My distant relations came to Royston in the mid 1800's from Dudley and Halesowen.

 

Nope, I never knew that, its a new one on me is that.

 

As tenuous claims to fame go… it’s up there!

 

Oakwell ales Barnsley bitter was the best pint of bitter I have ever had the pleasure to drink. Having said that Hull brewery wasn't far behind,but most bitters then was light year's ahead of today's pint.

 

Roy Race played for Melchester Rovers alongside Blackie Gray. Tubby Morton in goal.

 

'To mark St David’s Day, this post concerns the Welsh Methodist Chapel at Carlton, which for nearly 100 years served the expatriate Welsh community which made its new home in the village.
The Welsh colony in Carlton was founded by a Welshman named Evan Parry who was appointed as manager of Carlton Old Colliery in 1884 and drew around him an influx of miners and their families from Mostyn in north Wales. By the end of the 19th century there were almost 200 Welsh inhabitants of Carlton.'

....must be many descendants of these Taffs living in tarn today - wonder if they know of their Taff heritage ?

Louis Rees-Zammit - come back - your country needs you !

 

I'm a descendant of taffs, on both sides, Grandfather and Great Grandfather. One worked the mines, the other canals and then mines.

 

excellent! - once a Taff always a Taff.

 

Aren't Taffs south Wales?

 

The origin of the word "taff" is uncertain, but there are two main theories1. One theory suggests that the word is derived from the River Taff, which runs through the center of Wales. Another theory suggests that the word comes from the Old Welsh word for “twin”, which may refer to the two rivers that run through Wales (the River Taff and the River Dee in the North)1. The surname Taff is actually derived from the Welsh name Taaffe, which is a form of the personal name David and is related to the modern pet name Taffy2.

I think over the years 'Taff' has become a generic term for all of us born/raised to the West of Offa's Dyke.

 

Fulchester United was the team Billy The Fish played for.