Library Corner: Recommended reads by Rotherham Libraries
Do you ever visit the library and not know what to read next? Well, we’re introducing a new column where staff from Rotherham Libraries share a handful of titles from across the shelves, highlighting books for readers of all ages and interests. This month, the team at Riverside Library share...
You & Your Health: Your Guide to Staying Well this Summer
Summer is often thought of as a healthier, more active time of year with longer days, holidays, time outdoors and a break from routine. But it also brings its own set of health challenges, from heat-related illness and dehydration to travel disruptions and seasonal allergies. Knowing what to look out...
Dearne Valley Divers to study Scottish sharks
Goldthorpe-based Dearne Valley Divers are off to the Inner Hebrides this summer for an exciting scientific expedition to study a school of Scottish tope sharks. A team of 20 snorkellers and scuba divers from Dearne Valley Divers, a local branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club, will travel to the remote...
A Tale of Two Farms
With wildlife photographer, Harriet Day Barn swallows are one of Britain’s most familiar summer visitors. Every spring, they return from South Africa after a remarkable 6,000-mile migration. Weighing just 20 grams, these birds can travel close to 200 miles a day, arriving in the UK exhausted but ready to breed....
Separation vs Divorce: Why Waiting Could Cost You More in the Long Run
With Sharon Lockwood, family lawyer at Howells Solicitors’ Rotherham branch When a relationship breaks down, many couples choose to separate rather than formally divorce. At first glance, this can seem like the cheaper and easier option. After all, if you’re living apart and have made informal arrangements about finances or...
Barnsley’s most unconventional museum
If you’re drawn to places that do things differently, Cawthorne Victoria Jubilee Museum in Barnsley is well worth a visit. What its volunteers modestly describe as a ‘Victorian hotchpotch’ is, in truth, the museum’s greatest charm. In this most unconventional of museums, founded in the 1880s and owned by the...
Cannon Hall: A Story of a House and its Family
For centuries, Cannon Hall in Barnsley has watched the world go by. Visitors have admired it, locals have walked past it and history has settled quietly into its walls, but the family who once called it home has often remained in the background. This May, a new exhibition brings them...
Call-Out for Lost Stories of Wentworth’s Servants
A new exhibition opening this summer at Wentworth Woodhouse is calling for the stories that history left out – those of the servants and staff who lived and worked behind the scenes of one of Britain’s grandest homes.
Aroundtown Meets Richard Kitson
A life spent painting other people’s stories inevitably begins with your own. For figurative artist Richard Kitson, his story begins with a working-class upbringing in South Yorkshire where wanting to be an artist was a bit like colouring outside the lines. Those around him might not have pictured Richard making...
Joint Tenants vs Tenants in Common: Understanding your Property Ownership Options
With Joanna Sharp, licensed conveyancer at Howells Solicitors’ Barnsley branch If you’re planning on buying a house with someone else, have you thought about how you plan to own it together? While buyers often focus on securing a mortgage, arranging surveys and negotiating contracts, the way a property is legally...