Megan Wallace explores the Barnsley Chronicle archive - 1983
UP and coming Barnsley rock band Seventh Son have just released their debut single.
Already selling well in local record shops, it’s a limited edition with just 500 pressings available, so in years to come it could prove valuable.
A double A-side, it contains the tracks ‘Man in the Street’ and ‘Immortal Hours’.
It could well be the springboard to a professional contract certainly that’s what the local foursome are hoping.
“We’re in the process of putting some promotional gigs together,” vocalist Brian O’Shaughnessy explained.
“And we’re hoping for some air-play on Radio Hallam and other local stations.”
The single, recorded at Fairview Studios in Hull last November, is available from Casa Disco, Michael’s of Sheffield Road, Playback Records, Mary’s Records in the market, or from the band’s ‘home’, the Rising Sun.
BARNSLEY is to benefit from £367,000 of European money, it was announced this week.
The money is part of a £55m package Britain is to receive from the European Regional Development Fund and is to be spent on infrastructure projects such as road improvement works.
A sum of £45,000 has been allocated to the South Yorkshire County Council for the improvement of the function of Pye Avenue at Mapplewell.
A grant of £96,300 has been made to the county council for the re-alignment of Burton Road, Monk Bretton, near the Sun Inn.
The work, being carried out by the authority’s own labour force, is due to be completed in March. A further grant of £114,000 has been made to the authority for another scheme nearing completion at the junction of Langdale Road with Pontefract Road, Barnsley.
A 300m length of new road, stretching towards the Eastern Relief Road, has been constructed to improve the existing traffic flow and improve access to existing and proposed industrial sites.
THE first Mayor of the new Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Coun Jim Oldham, is to retire from the council and he hopes to emigrate to Canada.
Coun Oldham, who was mayor in 1974-75, and his wife, Winnie, intend to spend more time with their two married daughters, their married son and six grandchildren who have all settled in Canada.
Durham-born Coun Oldham moved to Thurnscoe after his father, a miner, had been victimised for his trade union activities. He followed him into the mining industry and stayed until he retired in 1974.
THE construction of the £2.5m underground reservoir in the centre of Monk Bretton has involved the excavation of more than 40,000 cubic metres of material.
The 230mm thick reinforced concrete ‘roof slab’ of the reservoir is supported by 150 columns, each held by a concrete base on a 250mm thick floor.
The reservoir is off Cross Street, a site selected by the Yorkshire Water Authority because it is one of the highest points in the area and will supply the north and west of Barnsley by natural gravity.
