The sad decline of The North

The sad decline of The North

It angers and saddens me a great deal to read the many obituries of once proud working and mining towns like Barnsley, Rotherham, Sheffield, Middlesbrough, Sunderland etc on this site. These were all places I was familiar with as a very young man back in the late 1970s and places I loved to visit and […]

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Barnsley, visit the place which inspired the film Deliverance

Barnsley, Property guide and review

How to begin? Firstly I am born and raised in Barnsley, a large portion of my post isn’t aimed at a large majority of the population which impressively has a large work ethic and standards. Once a mighty industrial, agricultural and coal mining town, this has rapidly descended into a venomous weeping hole of utter […]

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