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| A selection of war memorials in Darfield, near Barnsley |
Summary articles about war memorials in Barnsley are published on the Barnsley & District War Memorials (B&DWM) website. I began that site as a front window for the Barnsley War Memorials Project (BWMP) in November 2013 and in February 2021 it had 434 posts plus an additional 136 linked posts on the Barnsley & District War Memorials Gravestones site and 89 on the accompanying Barnsley Soldiers Remembered site.
I was not the only contributor to these sites - Fay Polson took over the role of webmaster after I had to leave the BWMP in late 2016 and Mary Lipscombe posted most of the articles on the War Memorials Gravestones site. Some of the posts on Barnsley Soldiers Remembered were contributed by family members, I merely formated and uploaded them to the site. Credit was always given, although some people preferred for their full names not to appear online.
After the BWMP was wound up in late 2020 myself and Pete Schofield (both of us ex-BWMP committee members) took over their site and changed its name to the current Barnsley & District War Memorials. We know of many more memorials that could be posted to the site and plan to expand the coverage to include Commonwealth War Graves Commission gravestones in Barnsley churchyards and cemeteries - I know they are not war memorials but we might as well have the commemoration of Barnsley servicemen and women all in one place. Pete has already uploaded many of the photographs taken by himself and Wayne Bywater to the Find A Grave website and the B&DWM site will provide an index and links.
As part of the research for my PhD into First World War Commemoration and Remembrance in Barnsley I hope to write some articles about war memorials for this site (which will be the ones including a lot of research) and the B&DWM site (which will be the brief listing type). The list below includes anything which I contributed to the B&DWM site since applying for a place on a PhD in early 2020. Some of these posts were originally uploaded to this site, Barnsley's History - Commemoration and Remembrance, and were then transferred to the B&DWM site in February 2021 as I began seriously upgrading that site following its transfer to Pete and myself.
Pete compiles index lists of the photographs and records, posts to Find A Grave and keeps the Master Spreadsheet of Barnsley men and women who were killed in any conflict up to date with any information contributed (we found out early on that one person should hold editing rights, it is far too easy to corrupt a spreadsheet) - I am the usual editor for the B&DWM site. We are both administrators for the Barnsley's History - The Great War Facebook page.
Brampton Bierlow Parish Hall Roll of Honour - 3 February 2020
Brampton Christ Church First World War plaque and bells - 17 March 2020
Felkirk St Peter's Ernest Litherland Memorial Plaque - 22 May 2020
War Memorial Gravestones in Felkirk St Peter's Churchyard - 22 May 2020
Felkirk (St Peter) Churchyard CWGC Burials - 22 May 2020
Barnsley, Sheffield Road Baptist Roll of Honour (postcard) - 8 June 2020
Cudworth, Star Hotel, Barnsley Road, Remembrance Mural (and seasonal lights) - 23 November 2020
Tankersley Peace Garden, Moor Lane, Birdwell - 25 November 2020
Wharncliffe Silkstone Club, Roll of Honour - 25 November 2020 (which links to a research post)
Tankersley, Jubilee Park, Westwood New Road, Memorial Bench - 25 November 2020
Hoyland, Owd Martha's Yard, Rear of Belmont Club, Memorial Bench - 25 November 2020
Barnsley, Manx Arms (formerly Tykes Sports Bar, Sheffield Road, Mural - 28 November 2020
Carlton, St John's Church, Yorkshire Regiment Association Memorial Bench - 28 November 2020
*** In February 2021 I began to improve the pages for Barnsley and District Churchyards and Cemeteries with the addition of more thumbnail photos and links to Find A Grave on the war memorial gravestone pages, and new pages for the CWGC burials. As some of these are not new posts they don't appear on the 'Blog Archive' on the side of the pages. ***
War Memorial Gravestones & CWGC Gravestones in Darton Churchyard & Cemetery - February 2021
(later split into two pages for ease of access as the post was very long)
Darton War Memorial Gravestones AND Darton CWGC Burials - 29 Jun 2021
Great Houghton High Street Working Men's Club, Photographic Memorial - 29 April 2021
Smithies Working Men's Club Roll of Honour Scroll - 17 May 1921
Barnsley, Yorkshire Regiment Association Bench, Cooper Memorial Gardens - 19 May 2021
Cudworth, Peace Garden, Yorkshire Regiment Association Bench - 19 May 2021
Wombwell, Wombwell Cemetery, York and Lancaster Regiment, Barnsley Pals Bench - 19 May 2021
Darton, Yorkshire Regiment Association, Matthew Thornton Bench - 19 May 2021
Barnsley Armed Forces Commemorative Walkway, Westgate - 28 May 2021 and 25 June 2021
(This one took me a long time to complete as there were 20 individual photos to crop and edit)
Barnsley, Masonic Lodge No.1513, Eastgate, FWW Roll of Honour - 16 June 2021
Barnsley, Holy Rood Church, FWW plaque & Stations of the Cross - 16 June 2021
Ardsley Churchyard and Cemetery CWGC Burials - 25 June 2021 and 29 June 2021
Monk Bretton Cemetery CWGC Burials - 28 June 2021
Darton Churchyard and Cemetery CWGC Burials - 29 June 2021
Barnsley, Old Mill, Wesleyan Reform Chapel, Roll of Honour - 1 July 2021
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