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I know why the hedonism nightclub got burnt down in a arson attack, a tit for tat argument about who was setting up running it an some kids burned it down for someone I know, bit bad that am glad I was nothing to do with it , they was an old burial site underneath it

Amazing to see them plan that market and multi story car park an now it’s all been knocked down and it’s all brand new again

When did the gradiented tax system start??

Don't look like it now

1:22 got it 100% right all the way back in ‘67 we still have this problem.

Mass coruption

What a great video loved the old cars , and the disused railway viaduct , one of my uncles used to work at Barnsley Exchange station he would love to get hold of one of the old station signs from there

NOT TOO KEEN OF NEW BARNSLEY MARKET ME SEN NOT LIKE THE ONE IN 70S WHEN ME & MY SISTER ALISON WENT WITH OUR GRANDMA, WARING AND GRANDMA RAWSON 5:42 THAT WAS THE COURTHOUSE RAILWAY STATION THATS NOW COUTHOUSE PUB

Bloody awful what they did.

Interesting......most everything he said rang true and now some 50 years later, after decades of neglect and decay, many of those ideas have been put in place and the centre now looks surprisingly modern, clean, inviting and well developed, which for a post industrial town in the north is quite an achievement.

My Father was Born in Barnsley and the people there are very good easy to talk to i like to see the tykes win its alright Ian saying we should redevelope a place like Barnsley wheres the money coming from?myself i live in Bridlington i just like it by the sea. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Love the grim depression of it all. Love northern misery

The same thing they did to Oldham,--but no-one is responsible !--it's like after the war,-they had all these "architects"-that were hopeless,-and set them loose "up-north"-to screw up,every living town they could lay their eyes on with the help of the local "corporation"-"you must imitate Bulgaria"-and "town-planners"who would not know their arse-from their Elbow !!--look at the Wonderful "Ashfield-Valley"-fiasco?--Anyway-I hope you "Northeners,-who are still "hanging in there"--All the best !!--(because you are the salt of the earth !!)

I'm a rough man but could never do this to these men it's unbelievable God bless everyone who was on their side

One of my "Reasons to be cheerful" Ian Nairn!

Obviously when the Howard brothers were boys it was all open countryside surrounding their cottage. A conservation order should have been put in place round their home. That way the brothers could have lived their remaining years in peace & without being hassled by local authorities & police. Proud brothers who loved the area they were born & bought up in. Absolute disgrace!

What a sad and shameful business! I can only hope the unwarranted stress didn't shorten the lives of these poor old fellows.

The problem is that Barnsley people STILL voted in a labour council !!!

Shame on you Barnsley council, scum bags the lot of you.

Police always look after the people with the money . Development company.😡😡😡😡😡😡

How could they do this.

Barnsley. Always was. Always will be. A sh*thole

Bunch of absolute cu*nts who did this to these goof men. May you be haunted on your death beds by what you did to them.

This is fascinating. The guys a legend. I have absolutely no idea why TH-cam had this queued for me but maybe it knows what I want to watch than I do. Tbh being a kiwi its hard to relate to the urban decay as here. Theres a similar period Stockton and Darlington railway documentary with artist David Sheppard and he's just as disparaging regarding the then state of urban decay as Ian Nairn. Britain almost seemed to hit some trough of cultural collapse in the seventies. Just thinking of the morbese car industry and its self destruction. The stark reality of any form of civic or urban development or beautification plans. The essential collapse of the northern industrial heart (cars, manufacturing, mining that kind of thing). Even the apocalyptic vision as presented in Qatermass or Clockwork Orange: no nuclear wasteland, no robots or AI takes over the world; just the societal collapse, moral bankruptcy where the "weather" reports just predict counties' blackouts. Almost like Britain was just pushing time for a new awakening. Fascinating period. P.S why is Barnsley singled out? Is it some cultural capital of the North?

It's changed quite a lot since the 60s! Lovely to see old footage though.

going to move there .. just seems like awesome

This why the council is hated allover the country because they do things like this in every district in the country. At end of the day they stole their home

Good to see Poulsons Architects mentioned in relation to YMCA building. My dad worked for them as a QS.

Would have been a thousand times better without the music

What now stands on the sight of the Howards' family home?

I'd love this Pillock to see it now. Proper town centre

That's a guy must have an affiliate scheme with the Samaritans.

A wonderful little insight into the shameful architectural vandalism that largely occurred in this country during the 1960's. Thank God they started to list buildings from the 1970's onwards otherwise we would all be living in a concrete dystopia that would resemble Romania at it's worst under Ceausescu!!!

There might be camels up there, Ian.

Az Tha gor any chicken tikka fort bird..? 😂

shit hole then shit hole now.

Love Barnsley it's like a mini Glasgow or Belfast lol

He turned out to be wildly wrong.

BUILD MORE HOUSES !!!!!! ha ha ha ha ha

Was in the Gyngleboy the night it opened. They were giving away tokens for a free pint of beer. Ah, the Vine. There was a pub in Castlereagh street that also went, the Cricketers or the Gardeners, can't remember now. The Luftwaffe couldn't have done a worse job on Barnsley.

The Luftwaffe couldn't have done a worse job on Barnsley and they are still making a pigs ear of it.

Only bit worth saving was bulldozed - railway station

He wanted to put medium/high rise flats in Monk Bretton? No thanks

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Memories like this make me sad and happy in one foul swoop, thanks for the upload pal

The narrator is so true in what he says, I'm a Barnsley lad born an Bred and his prediction of market is spot on.

the redevelopment of the market, which i think was opened by the Queen in 1977, lasted until recently and the next iteration has recently been unveiled. i've not seen the Glass Works up close yet, but it has to be much better than the previous concrete monstrosity.

He sounds as depressed as I have always been, when visiting Barnsley town centre, even our local town in Wombwell was better than this. That's gone under as well now due to lack of jobs and money and community. There was real character and personality there in the 60's and 70's, especially around the markets, but it all began to die after the strike, with demotion of pubs to piles of rubble. This is integarl to death of these communities, as these drinking houses and pits were community hubs, but never replaced. In Wombwell there were two good markets too, although Barnsley was the biggest. I recall being dragged down there when about 5 or 6 (1963 ish) in the pouring rain, just like in the video, amongst many old uns who scurried around looking for a bargain, and whose ears were highly receptive to the cries of the market stallers who proclaimed great bargains... not one, not two, and not three, but five for a quid, but get it now, as it's a once in a lifetime buy. And they did, trampling over anything that barred their way to their bargain. The side of Barnsley up Huddersfield Rd from the Town Hall he highlighted had a nice feel to it, but it was the money side, whereas going the other way up the River Dearne Valley, and towards the Don Valley, was really, really rough in parts. This was the biggest and busiest industrial site in Europe, maybe the world, full of beer-swilling and hard-working men, who worked and played hard, oft in extremely dangerous and low-paid jobs. They had little time for genuine beauty, but plenty of time for beer and bargains, and so the town centre reflected this philosophy, where money tended to be spent on the very basics of life, along with pleasures, usually the pub, footie, or fishing. Back in those days, I don't remember seeing men around, as they were at work, apart from really old retirees, but it was nearly all older women with their headscarves over their heads, and thick, long coats drooping to the floor, as it was cold back then, real cold There are a few localised sites near Wentworth, and towards Huddersfield that have a distinct beauty, some elegance, that reflect wealth and thoughtfulness in their architecture, but those in the mining villages didn't seem to care, and neither did the Council. I therefore agree with other commentators here who suggest it was s h_t hole before these developments, and an even bigger one after, and now with abated breath we await the next development, and my preliminary view is that it's more of the same...a heartless, soulless mess, although the bus arrangements were improved, but then they couldn't get worse. Perhaps, this is the point though, these people's soul was in their communities, and the heart of these were the pits and the pubs, along with the canals and reservoirs where they fished, so shopping was a necessity to be done as cheaply as possible, and with as many bargains. Hence why the markets and £ shops and Wilkos thrived here, well before these emigrated into southern towns, during the general and more recent demise of the British retail town centres. And so as with life in general, you get what you wished for, and since hardly anybody gave a damn, you get a sh_t ole!!! I would be intrigued to see the localities before the 1900's though in a stand-alone scene, as there's plenty of nice stone houses around from those days, and we had all the canals back then, with lock houses, theatres and such, suggesting it was quite a cultured place, but for whom I wonder, for did the miners from those back-to-back red brick housing rows sat next to their collieries attend such places??? And did they give a damn?

Does anyone know what happened with this, if they managed to appeal?

Forced art of his home some the can whoop up more cheap crap houses. Disgusting. Over the years they have thrown up loads of housing on every bit of spare land where we would play on as kids.... Barnsleys like a different town altogether now when I go back.. before we would know most people, families that had lived there for generations, now it's all strangers.