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   This photograph is on line. Click the photograph number to view

Circa 1910/12

Field Head House St Paul’s Church Church Street

The road sweeper is standing outside of what was Fieldhead house. The big gates to the left of the picture is just about where the second barrier to Brierley Hall car park is today. At this time the house that stands derelict (May 2005 - update - now demolished Jan 09) at the side of the church would not have been built

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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

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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

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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   This photograph is on line. Click the photograph number to view

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

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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

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

3^rd 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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