Elsecar Heritage Action Zone: a partnership project between @BarnsleyMuseums & @HistoricEngland, discovering and sharing @DiscoverElsecar's industrial heritage.
Elsecar, South Yorkshire
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Have you seen our new @BarnsleyMuseums blogsite? Featuring a new blog about last year's #NewcomenDig at @DiscoverElsecar with @GreatPlace_WE and @ArcHeritageYAT which uncovered the boiler house of our amazing #NewcomenEngine bit.ly/DiggingTheEarlsGreatE… #CommunityArchaeology 👇👇👇
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Yesterday was a great day at the Northern Cultural Education Awards with @EldonHaz proud to be a finalist in the Inspirational Partnership category for work with @TrinityAcadStE
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On yer bike!
Read about the history of the building that has been transformed through the @EldonHaz project
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Very excited to visit the new @jejamescycles shop on Eldon Street today. The former YMCA building has been completely transformed with support from the #HSHAZ scheme and a lot of hard work from the new owners and is now open to the public. Well worth a visit! 🚲 #BarnsleyIsBrill
ALT Traditional-style shop front within a three-storey historic building. There are bikes in the window and signage above the first floor windows that says 'Family owned, JE James, est. 1964'
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Thomas Newcomen’s (1664-1729) engine (1712) was adopted at many coal mines but only one survives on its original site @DiscoverElsecar . An iron monger and Baptist preacher, he is remembered via many street names including at Doncaster, Hoyland, Hull and London. @HistoryJT
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My interest in @DiscoverElsecar began in late 60s when I was a student. In early 1970s I tutored local history classes in Barnsley for WEA and Sheffield University. Summer excursions included tours of Newcomen engine, permission granted by NCB. Always remember/
@HistoryJT
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We have an #ArchiveCollection filled with photographs of Hoyland and Elsecar.
Does anyone remember the Futurist Cinema?
⛵️Elsecar canal basin
📽️ Futurist Cinema
🍻 Elsecar Midland Club
⚽️ Hoyland Junior Football Club
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ALT Elsecar basin
ALT The Futurist Cinema
ALT Elsecar Midland Working Mens Club and institute
ALT Hoyland Junior Football team
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For #BritishScienceWeek here's a thread about the Newcomen Engine at @DiscoverElsecar which you can read more about on our blogsite
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On #InternationalWomensDay we're remembering Elsecar's Adeline Jackson, who became the first female glass technologist in the UK working at Wood Brothers in #Barnsley. Read more about her here 👇 barnsleymuseums.art.blog/202… @BarnsleyMuseums @BarnsArchives @HistoricEngland
Happy #LeapDay everyone! Can we join the #MuseumTwitter game of #LeapFrog with this lovely frogged brick? Found during the #NewcomenDig it's only the second one (that we know of) from a small 19th century brickworks near Elsecar. Probably not very good at jumping mind... 🐸
ALT Red hand made brick with the words J K Brown stamped in the middle
We love this letter, which was discovered (and collected by @BarnsleyArchives) as part of the Elsecar HAZ. We're also delighted that Mrs Denton appears to have had her request granted #ChristmasCoal #SouthYorkshire #Elsecar @BarnsleyMuseums @HistoricEngland @explorearchives
#ArchiveAdventCalendar In December 1941, Mrs Denton - a miner's widow, wrote to the Fitzwilliam Estate to ask about her Christmas coal allowance, given to miners from the Elsecar pits until nationalisation in 1947. #FestiveTraditions @DiscoverElsecar @NCMME
ALT A letter in which Mrs Denton is asking if she is eligible for free coal, there's a note at the bottom which says send coal and a tick
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Bravo #Barnsley! @BarnsleyCouncil today announced @BarnsleyMuseums and outdoor attractions had record-breaking visitor numbers April- June, it’s busiest quarter on record. with 505,000+ visitors, 34,000 more than same time last year, one of many achievements highlighted in latest performance report. Not surprised #Barnsleyisbrill. Go visit @EBMuseum @CooperBarnsley @DiscoverElsecar @CannonHall1760 @Worsbrough_Mill @BarnsleyMHT #ad
Current exhibitions @ Barnsley Museums:
🧵Tailor Made at @EBMuseum closes 16 Sept
🖼️ Light and Soul at @CooperBarnsley until 7 Oct
👗Catwalking: Fashion Through The Lens of Chris Moore at @CannonHall1760 extended until 5 November
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.@ParkwayBarnsley opened #OnThisDay in 2007
Our 1960s reconstruction takes you to Eldon Street when it was still the Odeon. Watch the full video on YouTube
youtu.be/spwjGDcQKwA
@EldonHaz @HistoricEngland
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#YorkshireHumour We have two Elsecar themed postcards. Nessie spotted in Elsecar reservoir and 'Yorkshire Sayings' a postcard sent from Blackpool to an Elsecar family in 1917 @DialectHeritage @ElsecarHAZ #YorkshireDay
ALT A drawing of the loch ness monster in Elsecar reservoir. With the title Great Scot
#YorkshireDay We know that #MuseumTwitter have lots of humorous postcards in their collections, come on show your fine examples of #YorkshireHumour
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As part of the #FestivalOfArchaeology we're looking back on the #MiltonDig from 2018 with a short video of some of the discoveries from the excavation
youtu.be/Zx5dh9q6WY0
You can see more of these finds at the Dig This! event at @EBMuseum tomorrow experience-barnsley.com/what…
ALT Fragments of pottery
ALT A white clay pipe
ALT A brick with JK Brown on the front
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For the #FestivalofArchaeology we're revisiting the Milton dig from 2018 and sharing some of the fascinating finds that were uncovered.
You can read about the excavation in this blog barnsleymuseums.art.blog/202…
We'll be sharing more finds this week @DiscoverElsecar @ElsecarHAZ
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Well, I know you've all been wondering where I was this evening. I was on a tour of the site of the oldest steam engine in the world still in-situ. Courtesy of the wonderful people @BarnsleyMuseums @ElsecarHAZ taking us behind the scenes 😁
We had such a good time at the #MiltonDig Visit @EBMuseum tomorrow to see some of the finds as part of this year's #FestivalofArchaeology
@archaeologyuk @HistoricEngland @IGMTarch @pipearchive @ArcHeritageYAT
#ThrowbackThursday #HeritageActionZone
#ThrowbackThursday We're looking at more of the discoveries from the #MiltonDig in 2018
You can see these objects and many more tomorrow as part of the family friendly #FestivalOfArchaeology event 11am-2pm
Read more about the excavation from 2018 barnsleymuseums.art.blog/202…
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Coming to Elsecar on Sun, 30 July, The Un-Naturalists Summer Tour. Join us for a fabulous comedy tour guaranteed to raise a smile, hear the history of the village performed in a whole new way!
Free but booking advisable - tickets available here shorturl.at/npzZ3
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Bit of local history, crossing at Tingle Bridge Lane, Hemingfield.
Pre early 1950s as my house is still a field!!
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We were honoured to be part of the Arts Award Celebration event, hosted by #Fusion, at @horizon_cc. It was a brilliant to see the amazing artistic talent in the borough. Thankyou to the schools & students who took part & congratulations on successfully achieving your Arts Award
