Humans of Tarn (or is it Tahn?)

Just rambling on the general topic I think it's interesting how important a role the club is in maintaining a link to the town.
I left Barnsley in 1988. It wasn't a desire to get out, just circumstances of work location. I've absolutely nothing against the place, it has some lovely areas and some not so great like pretty much everywhere else but I have n ever had a desire to move back. I regard myself as primarily Yorkshire rather than Barnsley and, but for the club, I'd rarely give the place much of a thought. It is the club, however, that has kept me linked to the place, anchored to memories of glorious days back in my youth when Ronnie glided across the turf, the pride of going toe to toe against bigger and, supposedly, better clubs. It still keeps me linked and has kept me going back to the place I left 33 years ago. That's some powerful force the club exerts.

 

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Sounds good, kind of ties in with the recent Heritage Project stuff we did. Go for it!

 

I don't really identify as coming from Barnsley, as the current large incarnation was created in the 1970s. I gree up in a township which had it's own council and was part of the larger West Riding,our admin centre's were Darton and Hemsworth. Barnsley was separate. There seemed to be a sense of independence for people who lived in townships like Wombwell,Hoyland,Goldthorpe etc.