The featured articles are often reproduced from our quarterly Magazine, however we are always looking for articles to publish. Would you like to write something for the community to read? It may be something about your hobby, your communiuty group. It could be something about the history of the area.
Shot in both Barnsley and Tankersley the film Kes is 40 years old
Kes is the 1969 film based on Barry Hines novel "A Kestrel for a Knave," and was directed by Ken Loach.
Kes is a story of Barnsley boy Billy Casper, an academic failure and victim of social and spiritual poverty. This was no "Disney" boy and his pet type story, but a story of a disaffected Barnsley lad living on a grim estate, who first nicks a book on falconary and later steals a Kestrel. With infinite patience and dedication Billy trains the bird. For the first time in his short life he finds fulfilment and a sense of identity through the rearing and training of the kestrel.
My early recollections of Pilley Pit were in the late 1940's. The Pit was Pilley and Pilley was the Pit. Life revolved around it and it seemed at the time that this was the boundary of the world.
The featured articles are often reproduced from our quarterly Magazine, however we are always looking for articles to publish. Would you like to write something for the community to read? It may be something about your hobby, your communiuty group. It could be something about the history of the area.
The History of Tankersley Old Hall, and the origins of Tankersley Village
th Barnsley and Tankersley the film Kes is 40 years old
My early recollections of Pilley Pit were in the late 1940's. The Pit was Pilley and Pilley was the Pit. Life revolved around it and it seemed at the time that this was the boundary of the world.