Thank you! I'm really glad you liked the video and that it brought back some memories! Thank you very much for watching :)

Nah mate you don’t miss wombwell it’s a horrible place full of drug users

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I hope you get the chance to visit too! Wombwell is a great Yorkshire town - and full of life on a less foggy day than this, a great place to visit to take a look into your family history :) Thank you very much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!

Im from wombwell, live in Alabama now..... Wombwell down town shopping is ok.... but thieving is horrendous there.... every place I lived was broken into, every car I had was robbed.... once more than 12 times in a month

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My Family Wombles also. Been in Kentucky, Appalachian area, USA for many years. Thank you for a visit from yesteryear !

@@gothicm3rcy426 It was never like that in the days of the mines...you could leave your door open and feel safe from intrusion or theft.

All my family were members of the Station Lane club, and every year, during the miner's weeks and summer holidays, they would go off en masse, to Scarborough, or Blackpool usually I believe. From what I recall there were close to a hundred coaches, but then it was a well-attended club at one time, with a large concert hall, a snooker hall, and a lounge dedicated to Wombwell Cricket Lover's, who have many a visit from eminent and famous cricketers. So well worth a visit for those who like a bat, or a bowl. The swimming baths was always full when I was young, as were the tennis courts in the park, which is at the top of the hill, so you would have to turn around on the entrance to Church Street, and walk about half a mile up the hill, over which is the train station, for Sheffield to Leeds or Huddersfield trains. There was another at one time, which was just below the Working Men's Club, aptly named Station Lane Club, and this was for trains to the west and Manchester and Liverpool, and east to Doncaster and Hull. The north/south is served via Sheffield, or Doncaster, not so far away. The canals used to follow the same route, and one of my uncles was a lock-keeper, and lived in a house which has now been flattened, close to the old bus depot, where I lived for over 30 years. They were draining the canal back then in the 60's, for the A1M1 link, which has now been built almost parallel to the Cortonwood canal, spoiling its beauty and charm with the noise and fumes. We used to damn the water and swim in it, as it was quite clean due it moving quickly due it being drained. After the fish were killed in the other canal, we used in for rafting, with the help of the local builder, who didn't mind us using their wood, which is hardly surprising the number of houses they built on the Dove Road Estate, and the money they must have made down the years. There were a number of buildings for stables too, as they must have used horses for the canal barges, and there were lots of bottles from the 1800's around them, a foot or so under the ground. Roman coins have been found around the town too, as there was a settlement near the woods I believe, after all, they used the A1 as a major connecting road between their settlements, and there were a few local roads linked to the old A1, Westwood Rd being one I think, in the next village Brampton. That canal has still not been fully drained, but it is not the same as it once was, and it did connect to the Barnsley and Manchester Ship canals, and finally Liverpool.

The town was surrounded by a number of pits for many years, and was bound to suffer from their losses. Add to that the popularity of the retail parks, especially the one on the grounds of Cortonwood pit, as well as Stairfoot, and you can see why the village life is not the same. Also, what fields were remaining have recently been built upon, and apart from the cemetery there is no real breathing space in the town any longer, which I find claustrophobic. Personally, I feel the town was at its peak in the late 60's, with fishing on the canals, swimming in canals, and baths, two cinemas, two theatres, lots of fields, a great town centre, with two markets... where everyone used to call most days, so everyone mixed and said hello. I sense the place was well off at one time, for a working class mining town, as many prominent buildings were built with Yorkshire stone, which is far more appealing than the red brick terrace houses. A good sized library too, and there used to be close to 30 pubs dotted around the place, but lots have closed. The war memorial was always a prominent part of the town, being at one end of it, which was closest to where I lived, and where bus stops were positioned on both sides of the street. There is another church at the opposite end of the high street, a Methodist Church I think, which was very beautiful, but may have become a property development now I think. At the top of the hill was the secondary school, which has been bulldozed now I think, and another one built where Darfield pit stood, serving Darfield and Wombwell children alike. There is also a go-karting circuit, and there used to be a big football stand adjacent to this for Wombwell Town, who were usually in the Yorkshire League, although there is still a smaller stand, next to the athletics track, which surrounds the football pitch. There was a foundry at the top of the hill, which has closed, and is now covered with houses, next to the golf course, a 9 holer, with shortish holes. Further over the hill is the train station, and Wombwell woods, within which at one time was a mine, and a coking plant, with railway sidings, all of which have vanished, apart from the reservoir. For a visit, I would be intrigued to see plans for the years preceding 1970, at different time intervals, for it was clearly quite a special town at one time, but just overbuilt on now, and without the same camaraderie of the pit days, and thriving town centre, nor the same outlets, such as cinemas, snooker, and clubs and pubs, although thee are a number of restaurants now on the hgih street, if you like Indians and that kind of things. Thanks for the video, and all the very best to all of oyu!!!.

@@nialloneill5097 from what i remember the cop shop used to be the feast field

@@gothicm3rcy426 Yes, right at the top, although they used the whole field, which is why the feast stopped coming there. I think it was built in the early 80's, just before the strike. The original was just below the field on the same side of the main road, as though you are heading to Brampton and Rotherham, just below the Conservative Club, ironically.

Merci beaucoup! Je suis très heureux que vous avez aimé le vidéo - Wombwell est certainnement pleine d'histoire :) Bonne journée!

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Ha ha certainly there are a fair few wet and foggy days in Wombwell - as I'm sure you know the town looks even more impressive when the sun is shining, but there's a lot of history to be found on its roads :) Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!

Thank you so much for your wonderful comment! You paint a very warm image of Wombwell of old - it's always lovely to hear memories like this, so thank you! Wombwell has indeed changed a lot over the years, and I hope this video helped you to get a glimpse of the modern town and learn a bit about its history :) Thank you for watching - I'm really glad you liked the video!

Ha ha that's good to hear! I'm glad you found this an immersive walk around Wombwell - which has an interesting history as you say :) Thank you so much for watching - I'm so glad you enjoyed the video!

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I'm really glad you enjoyed the video - I always like to hear people's memories of their home towns! Also interesting to hear that the library was one of Carnegie's - I didn't realise! The South African War Memorial is still there on the side of the Old Town Hall, sorry about the picture quality and the fog that slightly obscure it in this video... Thank you so much for watching :)

same place I learnt to swim mate :)

Good to hear from a local! I hope this video helped to bring back some nice memories of Wombwell - some parts of the canal are still there as far as I know :) Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed this video!

Good to here that you moved from hawson and gower St. do you still live in London, just informing you of Wombwell, cause the people here don't change and after hawson Street was flattened kelvin Road Doctors had a building built to accommodate themselves and a pharmacy which still stands there now with a street running from the new police station down to a roundabout in between Wombwell wmc and the railway public house which usually serves the gypsies from down low valley.

@@LetsWalkUK Yes I enjoyed the walk but I must say that you didn't pass the Prince of Wales the local bar that houses the well known ugly room it's not name so because of its decor but the crowd that sit in there on a daily basis for a good natter whilst on Wombwell doing there shopping. Great atmosphere inthere and kids welcome if accompanied by an adult until 7pm.

No canals not changed just more reeds.

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Thank you so much! I'm really glad you liked the video - I'll put Dodworth on my list of destinations for future videos :)

Cool! You'll be used to Wombwell on much sunnier days that this then! It's a lovely town though, with some interesting history to it too :) Thank you so much for watching - I hope you enjoyed the video!

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Thanks! I hope you enjoyed the video :)

it is now yes, but wasn't always, this was a pit town, and like all pit towns in the region, they all struggled when Thatcher closed down the industry, and everyone lost their jobs, including me.

grew up there.... thieving is terrible

@@simtime7591 hope you had a party when that dragon died

the grim part is just England :)