Barnsley Oak, Minsthorpe

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  1. thetykester

    thetykester Well-Known Member

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    Just browsing Google maps & noticed it's not the Barnsley Oak pub anymore, just the Oak. How long as that been anyone?
     
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    A few years ago
     
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    Sad - always be the Barnsley Oak to me
     
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    The Spion Kop in Hemsworth is just The Hemsworth now. Distancing themselves from Barnsley.
     
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    Is it the Man U pub ?
     
  6. thetykester

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    Don't know about that, never been in.
     
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    It’s also now closed….
     
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  8. x11barnsley

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    Didn’the Mount used to be the Mount Vernon?
     
  9. Gimson&theBarnsleys

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    Mount Osborne I think.
     
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    It shut down a few months ago loved the grub up there on pool league nights
     
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    Mount vernon was an hospice
     
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    Ta …. it makes more sense but t’old memory gets fuzzier.
     
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    Whereabouts is the Spion Kop?
     
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    Just drove past it and realised the industrial estate where the Kia Garage/BPL is is called the Mount Osbourne Industrial estate. Don’t ever remember the Mount not being the Mount though and I’ve been drinking since 2000.
     
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    It was the Mount Osborne when I was a lad. The landlord's son was in my class at school, and I sometimes played cricket with him in the pub yard, with a dustbin for the wicket.
     
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    What years would that have been?
     
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    I’m not from Barnsley but used to go in the Mount (Osbourne ) before games in the late seventies and 80’s.
    I think it ditched the last bit some time in the Nineties
     
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    Googled it and it shut 6 yrs ago and is now a housing estate… sad sign of the times !
     

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