Anybody throw light on exactly where this is

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    Pontefract Road starting bottom reight going over canal follow to the left.
     
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    So is the building on the right, just before the canal where that light shop would be on Ponte Rd now? Can't get my bearings on where the canal used to be in relation to now. Fascinating stuff isn't it, amazed at how much has changed/gone!
     
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    Yep, try Google maps S71 1HP.
     
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    Building at middle right is Lite Spot(?) next to Pontefract Road which ran right up against Woods. Foreground is old brewery site. Almost exact centre of pic will be Elm Row(?) where snooker club is. Railway Viaduct in distance crossed where the trail crosses now, towards Mill O' Black Monks. Old line from Barnsley to Cudworth.
     
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    barnsley main pit stack behind the canal.

    if that plane is travelling in the direction of the picture its probably just flew over oakwell.

    according to a book i've got that aqueduct was demolished in 1954.
     
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    why they filled in that canal beggers belief... can u imagine it nowadays, full of pubs and resturaunts down hoyle mill.. bit like they have in wakefield and huddersfield
     
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    Click where it says NGR bottom right.
     
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    2/3rd up on the left looks like Lord Street follow this along and Ash Row steps back from Pontefract Road, love to see old photo's of the tarn and how things change :)
     
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    They knocked nearly all of those slums down........................and built Lundwood instead
     
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    it'd have been full of cars and supermarket trolleys.
     
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    Where the canal goes under the road is that now where the speed camera is? does can't picture where the viaduct goes across, somewhere past the priory roundabout? its doesn't look far enough on to be the old railway crossing just before Stairfoot roundabout.
     
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    woods was still standing and open in the 70's
     
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    The chimney at the top and furthest right is Beatson Clark glass works
     
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    When you come darn from Cundy Cross roundabout you used to go under the viaduct, to the right of it on the picture, where the roads turns right before getting to where car park across from pub/Indian is.
     
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    never said it wasnt..:confused:
     
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