Aroundtown Meets Tom Masters
He’s the Barnsley lad with the big voice, big heart and big hair. And it’s clear to see why Tom Masters has instantly struck a chord with audiences across the region. Over the last few years, we’ve seen Tom mature from this young tenor in the award-winning Barnsley Youth Choir...
The Wharncliffe Carlton Colliery Explosion – 140 Years Later
By Joshua Daniels Just after midnight on 18th October 1883, Wharncliffe Carlton Colliery suffered a disaster that saw the death of 20 men and boys. Based in the Smithies area of Barnsley, close to the border between Monk Bretton and Carlton, Wharncliffe Carlton Colliery had been operating for around five...
Sheffield Home of Football
Football has five billion fans and 250 million players around the world, but only one home: Sheffield. The steel city provided the spark which enabled the beautiful game to spread to become the most popular sport in the world. And now, 166 years after history began, Sheffield is set to...
Ee By Magnum: Uncovering Tom Selleck’s Barnsley connection
He’s just as famous for his thick moustache as he is for his starring roles. But a previously unknown fact about Hollywood actor Tom Selleck is that his ancestry can be traced back to right here in Barnsley. A team of local investigators have given Selleck’s Magnum P.I. character a...
Aroundtown Meets Dr Bijoy Mondal
As specialist in ageing, it comes as no surprise to hear that geriatrician Dr Bijoy Mondal is still working at 82. Many of his patients are younger than he is. But his motto – to himself and his patients – is ‘use it or lose it’. “Working keeps my brain...
Worksop Town FC: Beloved and Betrayed
This year marks 100 years since the FA Cup final was first held at the original Wembley Stadium. And it also marks 100 years since one of the most catastrophic and irredeemable betrayals made in footballing history. Non-league Worksop Town FC sent shockwaves through the sporting world when they drew...
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...
Totty Cup school football competition celebrates 100th anniversary
As the region’s oldest primary school football competition, the Totty Cup celebrates its centenary this year. Over the last 100 years, thousands of schoolboys from across the Don and Dearne region have laced up their boost to play for the coveted schools’ trophy – or one of them, at least;...
Home on the Grange
Thundercliffe Grange in Rotherham is privately owned by a group of residents. But it has previously been an Earl’s family seat, a private asylum for wealthy ladies, and a hospital for disabled children.
Who were the Earls of Effingham?
The Earls of Effingham were a junior branch of the House of Howard whose head was the Duke of Norfolk. They were descendants of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham who was an English commander who defeated the Spanish Armada. The Effingham family seat was in Surrey, but they became...
