Rotherham Hospice’s Midnight Memory Walk is back!

Rotherham Hospice’s Midnight Memory Walk is back!

This June, the much-loved Midnight Memory Walk organised by Rotherham Hospice is back following a seven-year hiatus with a Millers legend leading the way once again.  When Rotherham United’s John Breckin was made a hospice ambassador last September, one of his first missions was to resurrect the annual midnight walk...

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Astoria Centre: Songs from the silver screen

Astoria Centre: Songs from the silver screen

An industrial estate comprising of self storage units is probably not the place you’d expect to find a tribute to the halcyon days of 1930s theatre organs.  But the Astoria Centre in Barugh Green is nothing like you’ve ever experienced before.   The first of its kind in the UK, the...

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Cannon Hall gets catwalk ready

Cannon Hall gets catwalk ready

This summer, take a trip down the most stylish of memory lanes as a new fashion exhibition dedicated to photographer Chris Moore opens at Cannon Hall Museum in Barnsley.

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Give crown green bowling a go in Barnsley

Give crown green bowling a go in Barnsley

A long-standing crown green bowling club in Barnsley is hoping new members will roll up and join them this May at a free taster session. Locke Park Bowling Club will be hosting a Bowls’ Big Weekend event on Saturday 27th May at Locke Park in Barnsley. Bowls’ Big Weekend is...

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Aroundtown Meets Cynthia Shaw MBE

Aroundtown Meets Cynthia Shaw MBE

When a letter from the Cabinet Office came through the letterbox at her home in Harley, stating that she was to be made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in King Charles’s 2023 New Year Honours List, Cynthia Shaw put it down in semi-disgust.  Thinking it was...

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