Tackle like a girl at Barnsley Ladies RUFC
Twenty years ago, girls’ rugby in Barnsley was still finding its feet. The pathway was short, the opportunities limited and the try line felt a long way off. That was until a teenage girl urged her dad to even the playing field. Liz Lumb’s father Steve was then president of...
Rotherham’s New Industrial Revolution
For generations, Rotherham’s identity was forged in coal mines, steelworks and heavy industry. Those industries shaped communities, created skilled jobs and built the town’s reputation around the world. But as those industries declined, so too did many of the career opportunities that once seemed guaranteed. Today, however, a different kind...
Creative Pathway celebrates Mexborough’s past, present and future
Ask people from Mexborough what they remember most fondly about the town and the answers come quickly. Saturday afternoons spent browsing through Woolworths. The excitement of a trip to the Empire or Majestic cinema. Dancing the night away on the Empress Ballroom’s iconic sprung dancefloor. The Yorkshire rose on the...
Glamour, Guests and Hidden Stories at Wentworth Woodhouse
Ahead of this year’s Black Diamonds Ball at Wentworth Woodhouse, we look back at how the great parties of the past depended on an extraordinary workforce operating largely out of sight.
Aroundtown Meets Professor Joann Fletcher
Every life has its own excavation. Some discoveries are made beneath desert sands; others begin much closer to home. For Professor Joann Fletcher, the foundations of an extraordinary career were laid not on the banks of the Nile, but in an ordinary Barnsley childhood. Long before she would step inside...
Through the binoculars in autumn
With wildlife photographer and ornithologist, Harriet Day September & October: When autumn begins to roar As summer fades and the first golden leaves begin to appear, South Yorkshire’s countryside enters one of its busiest seasons. September and October are all about preparation: animals are fuelling up, finding shelter and making...
