Pictures from around the village.
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Church St Darton

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The Long Fields Darton

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Mapplewell Village Hall

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Village Hall Theatre

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Houses on Drum Site
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The Barbers Shop

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Darton Council Office

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Darton Post Office

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The Rose & Crown

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The Old Sunday School
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Birthwaite Hall

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Oaks Farm Drive

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Rockwood Close

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Site of the old Drum

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The Outreach Chapel


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Station Road

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Darton Church

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River Dearne

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Church Street
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Churchfield  Lane to church

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M1 north at darton

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Lead sheet from church roof during last restoration

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Lead sheet

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Crossroad from C Tower

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Old vicarage from tower

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Road from Darton bridge
to Church Street

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Dearne Street

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School Street

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Darton Church

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Old Church clock 
mechanism

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Largest bell hoisted into
place at refurbishment

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The six reconditioned
bells await fitting

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The River Dearne at
Darton
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The new pathways under construction on the Longfields At Darton.

The Darton Floods July 2007

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The Post Office, Old School, and Medical Centre in Church Street Darton.
Photo's by courtesy of Deena Gemmell

The fall of Sackup Lane School

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Yet another of our schools bites the dust, it's 
gone the same way as my old infants school Racecommon Road Infants.

 

 


 


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Pictures above are from the launch of the book "The Last Check" Which is a collection of personal memories from the Mapplewell, Darton 
and Staincross communities on the history of local mining.   The book launch was on Tuesday 26th November at the Village Hall Mapplewell.
"The Last Check" is available from the Darton Ward Library and Information Centre. Tel:- 01226-382309 Price £5.
The object in the picture, far right, is a canary cage for gas testing complete with oxygen cylinder for recovery of the bird.

Support your local Post-
Office,
If you don't use it, you
will lose it.



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Photo's of Darton in the old days.
Top left:- Bloomhouse Lane.
Top centre:- Bloomhouse Sackup?
Top right:- Church Street.
Middle left:- Church Street.
Middle centre:- Darton Hall.
Middle right:- Rear of Church St from behind post office.
Bottom left:- Darton Parish Church.
Bottom centre:- The Rose & Crown.
Bottom right:- "Uplands" Darton Lane.

This Page was last updated on  14/04/2008