Megan Wallace explores the Barnsley Chronicle archives from 1972.
TRAVELLERS on the north and southbound carriageways of the M1 are in for a pleasant surprise when they call at the new Woolley Edge Motorway Service Station.
On a site surrounded by delightful countryside has been erected a complex of buildings which will undoubtedly prove to be a motorist’s paradise. Said to be architecturally unique in design and structure, the buildings will house restaurants both from the south and northbound approaches from the M1 with seating capacities of 160 in each, a transport cafe, and cafeteria.
It is anticipated that the service station will be fully operational in around eight weeks.
BARNSLEY has got the ‘lion’s share’ of a major new development planned by a national bakery.
A factory costing £11m will be built providing jobs for up to 2,000 people, mainly men.
Revealed in the Chronicle some weeks ago, the site will be at Carlton on land used by the former Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery, number four and five pits, the colliery which closed two years ago.
The factory is being built by J Lyons Ltd who will close bakeries in Smethwick, Hove, London and part of a Glasgow plant to transfer business to Barnsley. Managing director of the company Mr A E Stocks told the Chronicle: “The factory will be very modern with excellent staff facilities.
“Between 1,650 and 2,000 people will be employed and a factory covering half a million square feet will produce cakes to the value of £30m each year.
AFTER weeks of speculation, the miners’ strike is on.
The National Union of Mineworkers decided overwhelmingly to proceed with the strike after a peace meeting with the National Coal Board failed on Wednesday.
By 23 votes to two, the NUM executive committee rejected a modified pay offer from the NCB.
And yesterday, they sought a meeting with the TUC to ask them to co-ordinate the help of transport unions in ensuring that no coal stocks are moved during the strike.
THE fight to provide a Church of England School to replace the one closed in Worsbrough village in 1963 has been won.
After many postponements and delays, work is to start on the project this month.
The school will be built on the open-plan system, with three classrooms for children aged four-plus to seven, assembly hall, kitchen, practical area, quiet bays and the usual offices.
In addition, there will be a parish kitchen for use by the church. The school grounds will be attractively laid out, and provision will be made for building extra class rooms if needed.
Total cost will be £38,600 of which the church will have to find about £6,000, plus £600 for the parish kitchen.
NOISE from the adjoining building site is causing headaches for doctors and patients in the outpatients department of the Barnsley District General Hospital.
Members of the Barnsley Hospital Management Committee were told of the difficulties caused by the noise when Dr Gerald Sandler asked them to do something to alleviate the problem. Dr Sandler said: “May I make a plea for something to be done? I do three clinics a week in this building and the noise is getting us all down.”
