Penistone Labour Party - Penistone Bowling Club - Penistone Pigeon Fanciers' Club
Fox's Steelworks Football Team - Thurlstone Hand bell Ringers - Spread Eagle Charity Match team
Janet's Collection
The top row below are from the 'Janet A' collection. Janet's father was a well-known local councillor Frank Ashton and I was privileged to be able to scan these and other pictures from his photo album. They pop up in a few places on this website. Many thanks to Janet Armitage of Cawthorne for their loan.
The first is of Penistone Labour Party in the 1920s, location and names unknown. Second is Penistone Bowling Club. It looks to be behind the Wentworth Arms and taken from a place where Wentworth Mews is now. I would guess around 1900. A 'mews' is supposed to be converted stables but these were new-build houses, so the name means nothing much. Number three is Penistone Pigeon Fanciers Club. I guess this was in the 1960s, location unknown, although someone has suggested that it might have been at The Bridge pub.
The bottom row pictures come from various sources. First we have a football team. From the guestbook, John Travis said first that it was not Penistone Church FC as I had supposed but Fox's steelworks in Stocksbridge, who used to have inter-department matches. He also said that: "The guy with the ball is Neil Crossland from Thurgoland and now Silkstone Common, whilst the one at the extreme right of the back row is Mick Turton from Sheffield, now Stocksbridge." Many thanks to John for that. My guess is that it was in the 1960s.
Alan Beever, fourth on the bottom row (who looked then just like his son Barry does now), says that there would have been: Eric Turner, Derek Dimelow and Ken Hawley but he might be able to update me when he sees the picture again. The middle picture is Thurlstone Bell Ringers at Penistone Show in the 1970s. It was later renamed 'Thurlstone Bell Orchestra'. They don't perform any more but their bells have a permanent home at Thurlstone Primary and you never know if they might re-form at some point. This might be a nice idea for Thurlstone Community Group to ponder.
The last picture shows a football team in a charity football match for the Spread Eagle. As they were wearing the same colours, it was probably an established team rather than an ad-hoc one cobbled up for the occasion. Ian Crawford (Pat's husband, see below) names the names, left to right:
| Standing | Malcolm Tomlinson, David Holladay, Ian Tomlinson, Tommy Davis (Spread Eagle), Scott McKenzie and Billy Hill |
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| Sides | Left: Donny 'Zonny' Butcher (holding the board), Right: Jack Palmer with a little lad |
| Crouched | Ian Crawford, John Lockwood, Robert French and Barry Thomson |
Scouts and Guides
Looking at this picture of Penistone Scout Cubs and Girl Guides from about 1959. I can see a pair of Cleggs, a Galliford, the Briggs sisters, a Hoyland, a brace of Kayes and one Christine Tozer. Jeremy Cutts added: "The boy kneeling up with one eye closed and cap at a jaunty angle, in front of Lynne Matthews, is my brother (now PT Councillor) Jonathan Cutts."
Mick Walsh has generously filled in more gaps for this picture. Starting at bottom-left on the front row, we have: Peter Redfearn, Graham Cross (chewing grass), Dennis Morley. Now going up a row and moving right to left: Alan Matthews, Dave Kaye, Stewart Apps (without cap), Steve Kaye, Brian Clegg (works in Platts), David Fieldsend (chewing grass), David Senior, John Bradley ('Spattsy'), Geof Clegg and Nigel Redfearn.
Now moving up the pile and moving from left to right, we have: Steve Hoyland, Graham Windle, Gordon Jagger (without cap), Robert Taylor, Richard Taylor, John Stead, Jonathan Cutts. Then Paul Wrigglesworth, Graham Scarfe, Glynn Stead, Richard Galliford (the last lad, top-left). Looking at the girls, left to right, I can only name the first two: Maureen Briggs and Margaret Briggs. Many thanks to Mick for his help. I'll see if I can find a way make the faces easier to identify.
From Pat Crawford
The next two below were emailed in November 2011 from Pat. The first one also appears on the Vinegar Brewery page and shows office staff who worked there. The date on the back of the picture was the First of April 1966. Pat gave these names (Left to Right):
| Back Row | Mary Hinchliffe, Linda Fretwell, Hazel Wilson and Mary O’Mahoney |
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| Front Row | Pat Hague (Crawford), Christine Mott, Christine Wragg and Barbara Baker |
These are Penistone Girl Guides, as they were then called. Many thanks to Pat for sending the pictures and helping to name the people. Also thanks to Mo & Marg Briggs and to Beryl Hodgekiss for helping to name them. They've done a great job between them but some names are still missing or uncertain.
| Top Row | Pat Ashton - Jane Whitfield - Anne Higgins - Diane Marsh - Tonia Matthews - Jean Cooper - Lynne Matthews - Angela Tyas - Wendy? |
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| Middle | (Ldr) Wendy Worsfold - Margaret Briggs - Sandra Youel - (?) - (?) - Pat Hague - Helen Hinchliffe - (?) - Margaret Clegg - Denise Tyas? - Jean Beaver- Christine Mott - Margaret Beever? |
| Front | Lynn Roebuck - Carol Faxon - Valerie Hattersley - Mollie Beever - Lynn Hattersley - Maureen Briggs - Kathleen Stephenson - Kay Acton - (?) |
There's another page which might interest older people. The school reunion page has some PGS form pictures from 1956 and 1965.
John Glenn: 'There is still no cure for the common birthday.'