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Picture of the Day: Icicles, Brierley [2010]

Icicles are twice as nicicles with Ricicles Some of the coldest winters I’ve experienced were during my time in Brierley. Sure, they weren’t a bad a when I lived in Patterdale Road in Liverpool — as in no ice on the INSIDE of the windows or frozen toilets — but still cold. I think, at the time, I wrote about how beautiful the snow was but I have no idea on which platform or incarnation of the…

Picture of the Day: Dead Horse, Brierley, Barnsley [2008]

A horse in a field Mrs Gnomepants v2.0 introduced me to a thing where whenever you see an animal in an old film, say older than 20 years, you point out to whoever is listening that the animal is dead now. “But wait!” you say, “2008 is less than 20 years ago, ipso facto, you may be wrong if you’re about to say the horse in this picture is now the glue on the back of a stamp”. Ah but no. I know…

Picture of the Day: The Green Man Of Brierley, Brierley, Barnsley, UK [2007]

Long term readers might remember Mrs Gnomepants V1.0 was a multitalented artist, but if you are new, this will probably be news.

This is the Green Man, taken today in 2007, which Mrs Gnomepants V1.0 sculpted out of clay for our second house, the one in Barnsley. It is a hollow plant pot holder with an entry on the top which you can’t see from this angle. We coated him in yogurt before putting…

Picture of the Day: Load of Old Rhubarb – Brierley [2008]

Old Rhubarb

I love growing rhubarb me. I’m not overly keen on eating it, though I will, but I love growing it. 

My grandfather had a fine crop of rhubarb behind his greenhouse. My dad would often relate how he would have to go out with a bucket after the milkman’s horse so he could collect the manure for the rhubarb. He prefered custard though.

Today’s picture shows a crop grown from a…

Teenager seriously injured following Barnsley collision

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Latest news in Yorkshire: Published March 22, 2019 04:10:08 PM

A teenage boy is currently in hospital in a serious condition, with potentially life-changing injuries, following a collision in the Brierley area.

At around 1.45pm yesterday afternoon (Wednesday 20 March), the boy was travelling along Common Road, on a white Moto Race scooter, when he is said to have swerved to avoid…

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