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There have been many examples on here to the Grunters being referred to as South Barnsley , on the basis that when the Sty was built it was on land outside the Sheffield border .
The assumption is that , this being the case , it must therefore have been in Barnsley , the next Local Authority to the north of Sheffield . Whilst this is now the case , it wasn't at the time since there was another authority separating the two , known as Wortley Rural District Council .
This was a very substantial Local Authority in area , stretching from just South of Birdwell and Hoyland in the north down as far as Owlerton and going westward beyond Bradfield. It encompassed most , if not all the land on which both the Parson Cross and Southey estates were built and included the villages of High Green , Chapeltown , Ecclesfield , Oughtibridge and Worrall to name but a few. It's main depot was located on Claywheels Lane at Wadsley Bridge , just a short stroll from Pig Central .
At the time of construction of said sty , Wortley itself consisted of a church , a pub , a couple of farms and a few cottages with shit houses called middens , which were planks of wood with a hole in over a pile of ash which a bloke had to come and take away every couple of weeks . ( As late as the 1950's I used one of them at a school friends house )
So you see , dear reader , that by calling them South Barnsley we're actually making them sound quite posh - impossible as that may sound !!
The assumption is that , this being the case , it must therefore have been in Barnsley , the next Local Authority to the north of Sheffield . Whilst this is now the case , it wasn't at the time since there was another authority separating the two , known as Wortley Rural District Council .
This was a very substantial Local Authority in area , stretching from just South of Birdwell and Hoyland in the north down as far as Owlerton and going westward beyond Bradfield. It encompassed most , if not all the land on which both the Parson Cross and Southey estates were built and included the villages of High Green , Chapeltown , Ecclesfield , Oughtibridge and Worrall to name but a few. It's main depot was located on Claywheels Lane at Wadsley Bridge , just a short stroll from Pig Central .
At the time of construction of said sty , Wortley itself consisted of a church , a pub , a couple of farms and a few cottages with shit houses called middens , which were planks of wood with a hole in over a pile of ash which a bloke had to come and take away every couple of weeks . ( As late as the 1950's I used one of them at a school friends house )
So you see , dear reader , that by calling them South Barnsley we're actually making them sound quite posh - impossible as that may sound !!
