Park Ave and High Street
The first two pictures are of Park Avenue on a cold winter's day. The small obelisk in the middle picture marks a typical fire hydrant with its Large 'H' on a yellow background. The actual hydrant is hidden under a steel plate in the pavement. Most phone wires are underground too in the UK but you will sometimes see a wooden 'telegraph pole' like this one.
Why Park Avenue?
A plot of land nearby called 'Bailey's Park' was the original place for the early Penistone Church Football Club matches, before they had their own land. It would be approximately parallel to High Street from near the ginnel (opposite the GPs' Surgery) to near the current Spar store. It is all houses now. The Park Avenue estate was built following the Second World War and took its name from Bailey's Park.
The top-right picture is a dull and wet August 2008 day viewed from the top of Ward Street. It looks down High Street towards the church. It is surprising how much the road descends down a small hill here but you do notice it when riding a bike. Bottom-left is looking from more or less from the same place but is zoomed out more. The prominent house was the doctor's Dr. Masser's old surgery.
Bottom-middle picture is again from the top of Ward Street but looking the other way, towards what was Wiseman's grocers for more than a century. It has changed hands a few times since Wiseman's closed. It became a sandwich shop, possibly a delicatessen and from around 2020, just before the Covid19 pandemic, it became a Turkish gent's hairdresser.
The last picture bottom-right is the former Green Park House old people's home. Barnsley Council closed it in 2008 and it was demolished, to be replaced with Buckingham House old people's home (what everyone calls 'Buckingham Palace').
This is up the access road just visible on the right of the bottom-middle picture where those people are walking and it is directly opposite the top of Ward Street. On its way to Buck House, the road passes the youth club (Surf-n-Snack-Shack), which is still in use, and the new junior school entrance.
"The winner of the rat race is - still a rat."