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...
From Sheffield to the States: The passing game that conquered the world
This summer, as football fans gather in pubs and living rooms across South Yorkshire to watch the World Cup, the spectacle unfolding in American stadiums will showcase the very best of the modern game: speed, skill, precision. But beneath the competition lies a deeper narrative. One that begins in Sheffield,...
Small Change, Big Stories
For most people, loose change is something to spend or ignore. But for Paul Sargeant from Rotherham, coins have fascinated him for over forty years, with numismatics – or coin collecting – becoming a lifelong pursuit. It started in the 1980s when Paul bought a metal detector and headed out...
Discover Rotherham with a free guided tour
Explore Rotherham in a new light this summer by taking part in a free guided heritage walk led by Rotherham District Civic Society. With a focus on some of the town centre’s historic buildings, the walking tour highlights the architecture and stories that often go unnoticed in everyday life, ...
