Barnsley Museums Natters

By Barnsley Museums

Welcome back to the Barnsley Museums podcast! Series two reflects on 40 years since the Miners' Strike with interviews from former miners and the Women Against Pit Closures movement. Barnsley Museums'... more

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Barnsley Museums Natters episodes:

December 20, 2024 The Barnsley Carol (Christmas Eve) by Arthur Godfrey
A Christmas carol lost for 90 years and re-discovered by Barnsley Museums in 2023. Watch videos, read blogs and download the lyrics from our website https://www.barnsley-museums.com/the-barnsley-carol-christmas-eve-by-arthur-godfrey
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18min
October 24, 2024 #Strike40 In conversation with.....Arthur Scargill in 1983
There's lots of interviews online with Arthur Scargill that focus on his involvement in the miners strike. In this interview that pre-dates the strike John Kelly focuses on Arthur's formative years in Barnsley, his interests and influences away from the pit. This is the first time this interview has been shared online, it's from a recently digitised cassette tape from a Barnsley Archives collection.

Recorded in 1983 for the Second Sight magazine created especially for the blind and partially sighted, we are currently working through the collection and will share more interviews in the near future.

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16min
September 20, 2024 #Strike40 Kenneth O’Mara shares his memories of Elsecar and the miners' strike
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19min
August 29, 2024 #Strike40 Gerald O'Brien shares his memories of Elsecar Main Colliery
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17min
August 15, 2024 #Strike40 - Women Against Pit Closures - Rally at Barnsley Civic Hall, May 1984
The interviews in this episode were recorded on 12th May 1984 at a large Women Against Pit Closures rally at the Barnsley Civic Hall. The event was much larger than expected with an estimated 10,000 women travelling from all parts of the country to the event at the civic hall and had 40 speakers. You are about to hear speeches by Ann Hunter (chairperson of rally), Lorraine Hunter, two miners' wives from Nottinghamshire and Arthur Scargill. Interviews with Chris Hall (of Barnsley Women Against Pit Closures), various miners' wives, nurses from South Wales raining community, miners' wives from Wales, and Susan Sykes, miner's wife from Grimethorpe.

Special thanks to Sheffield Archives for digitising the cassette and allowing us to make it available in this podcast.
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21min
July 25, 2024 #Strike40 Cllr Mick Stowe shares his memories of the 1984 Miners' Strike
Continuing our miners' strike podcast series, this episode was recorded as part of the Elsecar Building Bridges project which you can read about on our website https://www.elsecar-heritage.com/elsecar-building-bridges-project
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18min
May 02, 2024 #Strike40 Brian Elliott in conversation with Ernest Kaye
Recorded in 2004, Brian speaks with Ernest Kaye about his lifetime down the mines, including his striking memories
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21min
March 26, 2024 #Strike40 Brian Elliott in conversation with Michael Taylor about his mining memories
Throughout the year we are going to share highlights from Brian Elliott's oral history collection, a local historian and published author who has generously donated his sound archive to Barnsley Archives and Local Studies which we are now making available online for the first time.
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25min
March 05, 2024 #Strike40 Barnsley Women Against Pit Closures - Betty Cook
Betty Cook was a founding member of the Barnsley Miners Wives Action Group which led to the formation of The Woman Against Pit Closures in Barnsley. This interview was recorded in 2009 as part of The South Yorkshire Women In Industry lottery funded project.

It is being shared for the first time as part of Barnsley Museums' year-long programme of events marking 40 years since the Miners' Strike. For more details, visit our website
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26min
December 19, 2023 The Barnsley Carol - Christmas Eve by Arthur Godfrey (1933) vocals by Tegwen Roberts (2023)
A Christmas message from Barnsley Museums, featuring a Barnsley carol 'Christmas Eve' written by Arthur Godfrey and published in the Barnsley Chronicle in December 1933. With photographs of Barnsley at Christmas from Barnsley Archives.

Read our blog to learn more about the carol https://barnsleymuseums.art.blog/2023/12/12/a-barnsley-christmas-eve-carol-1933/
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