🎄Wentworth Castle College for teacher training in 1948
🎄The Barnsley Electricity Showroom on Eldon Street
🎄Barnsley Baths trimmed up for Christmas
Open door 23 of the #BarnsleyChristmas Advent Calendar
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More #BarnsleyChristmas memories, this time Cheapside in the 1990s
Open door 22 of our Advent Calendar for your daily jigsaw and video
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We have been asking you to send us your snowy pics and you haven't let us down!
Roger has captured Cannon Hall Museum, Park and Gardens in the snow
Open Door 18 of the #BarnsleyChristmas advent calendar for your daily jigsaw puzzle and video
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A grand dining table set for a formal feast with candles, fruit, cakes, and elegant decorations. The room has ornate wallpaper, framed portraits, and a decorative fireplace, creating a festive, historic atmosphere.
A close-up of a festive gingerbread village with decorated houses, a clock tower, miniature snow-covered trees, and white icing details, set on a surface covered in artificial snow.
A metal chicken ornament with a ribbon and a "Joyeux Noël" tag is silhouetted in front of a blurred, glowing Christmas tree with white lights.
A ceramic bird figurine sits in front of a decorated Christmas tree with glowing lights and various hanging ornaments shaped like pears. The tree is in a large ribbed planter.
🎄 Christmas at Cannon Hall Museum ✨
Look out for the 12 Days of Christmas trail when you visit!
🕒 The museum is open 11am-4pm 19-23 Dec and 11am-1:30pm on Christmas Eve
🎅 Open Day 16 of the #BarnsleyChristmas advent calendar for more Cannon Hall content 👇
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A snow-covered street lined with houses and utility poles, with a bus and a few people walking in the snow. The scene appears cold and quiet, with snow blanketing the ground, rooftops, and parked cars.
Another snowy Barnsley pic ❄ This time Upper Sheffield Road in 1940
Day 14 of the #BarnsleyChristmas Advent Calendar
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Volunteers in the kitchen at the museum, Ian McMillan is uncovering a tray of mince pies
A decorated Christmas tree with colorful lights stands in front of a display case filled with photos, plaques, and memorabilia. Two framed portraits hang on the wall to the right of the display.
A decorated fireplace with a garland of ivy and fairy lights, pinecones, and candles on the hearth. Above the mantel is a white display board with colorful square art pieces arranged in a grid.
Three wooden snowmen decorations with scarves and top hats are displayed on a table near a window. Each snowman has a carrot-shaped nose, a smiling face, and festive holly details on their hats.
For Day 13 of the #BarnsleyChristmas Advent Calendar we'd like to give a shout out to our friends at Darfield Museum
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It's their last Saturday that they are open this year. BUT this Friday 19 December is the annual Carols on The Patio at 6pm.
Three women wearing matching red tops and pink aprons stand behind a bakery or deli counter, smiling. The background is decorated with Christmas tinsel and posters of Santa Claus.
Our festive offering today take you back to the 1980s with Barnsley market stall holders.
Open Day 12 of the #BarnsleyChristmas Advent Calendar - There's an extra special treat from Ian McMillan waiting for you....
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Benjamin Harral's the ring shop on Eldon Street, with a busy street scene
Black and white advertisement featuring a decorative border and text promoting Christmas presents from Harral's Jewellers on Eldon Street, Barnsley, offering a wide range of gift options for all tastes and ages.
Eldon Street with the entrance to the Civic and multiple shops including Singer, Albert Hirst and Haigh
Black and white vintage ad with a drawing of Santa Claus holding a sign that says “EAT & ENJOY” above a pork pie. Text advertises Hirst’s pork pie and other meats for Christmas from Albert Hirst, Barnsley.
Day 8 of the Barnsley #BarnsleyChristmas advent calendar is all about Eldon Street and memories of shopping at Albert Hirst's and Benj Harral's
Open door 8 for more Eldon Street festive treats:
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Black-and-white vintage school Christmas nativity photo featuring a large group of young children dressed in festive costumes, including angels with tinsel halos, shepherds, wise men, toy soldiers with tall fur hats, and children in front holding handmade paper Christmas tree props.
Did you ever #Star in a nativity play?
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Behind Door 7 of the #BarnsleyChristmas advent calendar is some 80s nostalgia...
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Locke Park tower in the snow
A winding path curves through a snow-covered park lined with bare trees. Snow blankets the ground and tree branches, and houses are visible in the background under a cloudy sky.
A person in a red coat walks down a cleared path through a snow-covered park, surrounded by bare trees and a blue sky. Benches and a gazebo are visible in the background.
A child sleds down a snowy hill lined with bare trees, casting long shadows. Three people stand at the top of the hill in the background under a clear sky.
🎁✨ Time to open another door of the #BarnsleyChristmas advent calendar which today is all about Locke Park!
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Friends of Locke Park open the tower on the first Sunday of the month, which means it will be open tomorrow, 1-3pm
A person dressed as Santa Clause sits holding balloons, surrounded by a group of smiling children, each holding balloons, in a hallway with festive decorations on the walls.
🎄 #ThrowbackThursday Agnes Road School at Christmastime 🎅✨
Open Day 4 of the #BarnsleyChristmas advent calendar for more #BarnsleyChristmas memories
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Share your school memories when you visit the Stories of Childhood exhibition at Experience Barnsley Museum
A worn, brown box with a label reading "From the Daily Mail Christmas Fund 1928. Packed by William Whiteley, Ltd." sits on a carpeted floor.
#BoxesAndBows The 1928 Christmas fund
Hampers were distributed to almost 2000 miners' and their families in Barnsley who were struggling as a result of strike action.
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Have you opened the #BarnsleyChristmas calendar yet?
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slushy snow on a road
snow up to the doorsteps in a street in Barnsley
A snow covered street
Do you remember the big freeze of 1963? ❄
There's more snowy scenes behind door 3 of the #BarnsleyChristmas advent calendar
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