Barnsley, Yorkshire

Barnsley is a Yorkshire market town on the coalfield, and its prints catch it at moments of drama: prisoners from the collie...

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Barnsley is a Yorkshire market town on the coalfield, and its prints catch it at moments of drama: prisoners from the colliery riots being taken to court in 1870, a procession entering the Regent Street station in 1857, and the Hoyland Silkstone collieries at work in 1900. Architects' drawings add T. C. Sorby's county court of 1871 and the girls' high school of 1907. The maps begin with Ogilby's road of 1675 through Huddersfield and Halifax to Richmond, followed by strips from Senex, Gardner, Owen and Bowen, Kitchin and Paterson. Jefferys in 1772 and Cary in 1794 and 1824 place the town in southern Yorkshire, the Ordnance Survey of 1841 covers the coalfield, and Geographia's plans of 1935 show the streets out to Worsbrough, Stairfoot, Dodworth and Monk Bretton.

Barnsley is a Yorkshire market town on the coalfield, and its prints catch it at moments of drama: prisoners from the colliery riots being taken to court in 1870, a procession entering the Regent Street station in 1857, and the Hoyland Silkstone collieries at work in 1900. Architects' drawings add T. C. Sorby's county court of 1871 and the girls' high school of 1907. The maps begin with Ogilby's road of 1675 through Huddersfield and Halifax to Richmond, followed by strips from Senex, Gardner, Owen and Bowen, Kitchin and Paterson. Jefferys in 1772 and Cary in 1794 and 1824 place the town in southern Yorkshire, the Ordnance Survey of 1841 covers the coalfield, and Geographia's plans of 1935 show the streets out to Worsbrough, Stairfoot, Dodworth and Monk Bretton.

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