Things I liked about Barnsley that have gone

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  1. jedstar

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    Has that gone?
     
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    Yes, a month or two ago. The rent of the stall was pricing him out apparently. Sailor Sids is still there, but I always preferred Sid Tyas's stall, as did my kids after me.
     
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    Sailor Sid's stall is still there. He lives just down the road from me.
     
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    Apologies, thought the two Sids were one in the same.
     
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    Gingleboy (first beer when 15)

    Enterprise Video shop. There was another but can't remember its name??

    Private shop just down from don valley sports, always good for bobby knocking

    Having to eat at India gardens thru lack of option

    Yasmin's cafe near whispers

    Playing NARC and Salamander in the Shakespeare

    Blokes selling scarves and badges on way to oakwell

    Wearing a red and white flat cap, scarf and wooly gloves saying Barnsley FC in August

    Getting crushed on the opening day of EGS records

    Seeing Chelsea fans getting run ragged through the town centre

    The Penny Farthing pub

    The old Old No 7

    Brownes being good

    Catching the outer circular bus - what a way to spend 2p
     
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    Darn's is still there!
     
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    Being only 30-odd not a massive amount has changed...I do miss Butterfield's pub, Wednesday/Thursday nights being busy and Delta Bowl.
     
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    Chantry video shop

    The opening day of EGS was mad. The counter started falling over, so everyone got kicked out at the back, including those waiting to pay for the records that they then just walked off with. Maybe it was the special appearance of Black Lace that did it!
     
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    Wasn't it Sam Fox?!? Or have I just made that up?!?
     
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    bloody hell.... John Brittons

    that was a wonderland to me as a bairn.
     
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    Definitely Black Lace. From a distance there may be a similarity with all that blonde hair I suppose.
     
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    the day they broke my heart was when

    they demolished the town hall in Hoyland. That day they ripped the heart out of my home town.They also built over a majority of the Cloughs near springwood.They demolished and built houses over the "Wooden School" that'was my infant school... They later demolished the school at Hoyland common at allots corner... that was my Junior School... They literally took my childhood away with a wrecking ball and a Bulldozer... and yes it hurt me deeply.


    Hoyland now is a steel/plastic/concrete MESS.... heartless except for one thing..... one very very special thing dear to me.


    its people.

    Salt of the earth.
     
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    Not places but activities as a kid:

    spotlight dobby
    hedge hoppin
    bobby knockin

    used to tie all the house door together on burton road down honeywell and bobby knock the lot of em in one go. Proper funny watching them all closing each other doors.

    Do kids still play these games?

    kids dont know they r born these days with xboxes although the speccys came out as i was growing up. We still laiked out a lot though.
     
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    I miss that mate,i tried to sit in the lower west the other week by asking the security guard if it was ok,not a chance,my season ticket is for the ponty and that's where I shall sit,we just fancied watching the game from somewhere else for a change.
     
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    Sam Fox opened the McDonalds I think. Well, she was supposed to, we skived off school to see her but she wasn't there. Maybe we had the wrong day or the wrong time; I can't imagine our research was up to much and I still don't know to this day if she actually did or not. Still, a Big Mac is better than double English and I don't suppose she would have let me feel her tits anyway.
     
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    Snow. Meks it look cleaner.
     
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    Most teenage boys were absent that afternoon hoping she'd open something!
    I had a vivid memory that it was Andys Records/EGS?!? But my mid 90's recreational drugs stage is eventually catching up with me!
     
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    The landlords handle bar moustache in the Temple Inn .( Browns Bar) .
     
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    The old fish and cheese market where you had to go down those steps. ..
     
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    The old Old No. 7... Now we're talking. There is no where like it anymore.
     
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