Photograph
number: Buildings
1
1960s
A
picture postcard of Brierley.
Top
left is Brierley Manor, top right is the post office, bottom left is the
Farriers Arms and bottom right is Hall Farm
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Photograph
number: Buildings 2
1999
Brierley Post
Office
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Photograph
number: Buildings 3
1967
Church Street
Brierley – “New Row”
Brierley
post Office and “New Row” as this row of terraced houses were commonly
known. New Row was demolished in the late 1960s.
This
photograph is reproduced from an old newspaper cutting.
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Photograph
number: Buildings 4
Circa
1920s
St
Paul's Church Institute
The
building was erected in 1911 by the Cordeux family and left as a gift to the people
of the village. From 1916 right up to the mid 1960s, the Institute, apart
from other things was used as the infant’s class for the nearby St
Paul's school. In 1966 it was bought by the Brierley branch of the Royal
British Legion for £5,000 and in 1968 became Brierley Ex club. Sam
Smith's brewery now owns the building and it is now known as Brierley
Social club (March 2005).
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Photograph
number: Buildings
5
Circa
mid 1960s
Burntwood
Hall. Drawing room
No
other information is available
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Photograph
number: Buildings 6
Circa late 1890s
Folly
Hall Farm
Now
boarding kennels (April 2005)
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Photograph
number: Buildings 7
1948
Brierley
Hall
On
Nationalisation in 1948 Captain Addy decided to retire to Oliver’s Mount
in Scarborough and in August that year he sold the hall to Hemsworth Rural
District Council. With changes in local government on the 1st
April 1972 Brierley Hall passed to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
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Photograph
number: Buildings 8
Circa
early 1940
Burntwood Hall gardens
No
other information is available
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Photograph
number: Buildings 9
1955
Burntwood
Hall
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Photograph
number: Buildings 10
1955
Burntwood
Hall
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Photograph
number: Buildings 11
1985
Lindley
House
At
this time the house was owned by Roy and May Beaumont Schofield
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Photograph
number: Buildings 12
Circa 1910/12
Field
Head House St Paul’s Church
Church
Street
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Photograph
number: Buildings 13
Date
unknown.
Primitive
Methodist Chapel Cliff Lane
The
Chapel was built in 1852 and demolished in the late 1970s. In 1934 the
chapel joined forces with the Wesleyan Chapel, which was situated up the
lane behind Brierley General Store, to buy the present Methodist Church.
The old Wesleyan Chapel has now been converted and is the home of Mick and
Hannah Carbutt. I think at the time this photograph was taken, the old
chapel was being used as the Toc H centre. Do you recognise any of the
faces?
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Photograph
number: Buildings
14
Date
unknown.
Primitive
Methodist Chapel Cliff Lane
The
Chapel was built in 1852 and demolished in the late 1970s. In 1934 the
chapel joined forces with the Wesleyan Chapel, which was situated up the
lane behind Brierley General Store, to buy the present Methodist Church.
The old Wesleyan Chapel has now been converted and is the home of Mick and
Hannah Carbutt. I think at the time this photograph was taken, the old
chapel was being used as the Toc H centre. The name suggested for the chap
on the photograph is Harold Dyson who I am told was the caretaker at the
time. Do you know any
different?
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Photograph
number: Buildings 15
Date
unknown.
Primitive
Methodist Chapel Cliff Lane
The Chapel was built in 1852
and demolished in the late 1970s. In 1934 the chapel joined forces with
the Wesleyan Chapel, which was situated up the lane behind Brierley
General Store, to buy the present Methodist Church. The old Wesleyan
Chapel has now been converted and is the home of Mick and Hannah Carbutt.
I think at the time this photograph was taken, the old chapel was being
used as the Toc H centre. The name suggested for the chap on the
photograph is Harold Dyson who I am told was the caretaker at the time. Do
you know any different? Can you identify the object in the foreground?
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Photograph number: Buildings
16
Circa
1950s
Victoria
Terrace
Victoria
Terrace is opposite the Methodist Church. The horse drawn drays seen here
are part of the Methodist Church Whitsuntide Parade. None of the children
on the drays are known. Can you help?
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Photograph
number: Buildings 17
Circa 1940s
St
Paul’s Church
And not a drop of litter in
sight.
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Photograph
number: Buildings
18
1969
Lindley
House
At
this time the house was owned by Roy and May Beaumont Schofield
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Photograph
number: Buildings
19
1998
Brierley
Hall
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Photograph
number: Buildings 20
1967
The
old Printers and Beer Off
On
the left are the old printers and on the end is the beer off. Both shops
have now been converted into living accommodation.
Photograph
re produced from an old newspaper cutting
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Photograph
number: Buildings 21 Also People 94
1934/35
St
Paul’s Cottage
Seen
outside are Ronald and Joan Steele whose grandparents lived in the cottage
at this time.
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Photograph
number: Buildings
22
1985
Burntwood
Hall
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Photograph
number: Buildings
23
Date
unknown
Brierley
Gap
Brief history
In
1903, the Rev. John
Hoyland conveyed to his son, Clement Edward Hoyland of Cumberland, a piece
of land at Brierley Gap that measured five acres. He erected property
there in the same year and it became known as “Brierley Gap”. Their
stay there however was short lived, and on 16 March 1911, just eight years
after having it built, the Hoylands conveyed the property to the Hemsworth
Rural District Council.
The
Rev. John Hoyland died in 1910, and after his death, his widow Mary Ann
Hoyland who was residing at Brierley Hall at the time, went to live in
Harrogate, these being the parents of Clement Edward Hoyland, it is
possible and purely speculation on my part, that on the sale of the
property at Brierley Gap, Clement followed his mother to live in Harrogate
as nothing more was heard of him, or indeed the Hoyland family.
Information
from ‘Brereley’ A history of Brierley
Richard
Watson and Mary Harrison 1975/76.
Hemsworth
Rural District Council used the property as a home for the nurses working
at the Isolation hospital nearby (now Burntwood sports centre), and also
as a sanatorium. In 1964, they conveyed the property to Brierley Gap
Holdings Limited with Mr W Child as chairman of the Board of Directors. It
was converted into a gambling casino ideally named “The Five Acres
Country Club”, and in the late 1970s, it became the first night club
Brierley had ever hosted. It was aptly named “Eight Miles Out”, the
reason being that it was approximately eight miles from Barnsley,
Wakefield and Pontefract.
The
property still stands proud and local lad Roger Butterworth now owns the
property that is now known as “The Robin Hood”.
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Photograph
number: Buildings
24
1999
Robin
Hood (Brierley
Gap see also buildings 23)
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Photograph
number: Buildings
25
3rd
June 1938
Brierley
Hall
The
buntings were for the reception, after the wedding of Mr William Wilde of
Sheffield to Dorothy May Ross Gardener (eldest daughter of Lieut. -Colonel
W Ross Gardener, Chief medical officer of Health to Hemsworth Rural
District Council) of Red Gables Church Street, Brierley. Captain Roland
Addy, the owner of the Hall at this time and also the Managing Director of
Brierley Colliery, proposed a toast to the Bride and Groom.
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