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Barnsley Pub and Club News
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Name: Phil Gregg From: camra
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A Wombwell brewery's enjoyed a bumper Christmas. Sales at Acorn were up 29 per cent on the year before. It's as 87 thousand pints of cask ale left the brewery in December From Dearne FM
Added: January 10, 2010
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Name: phil gregg From: camra
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The new licensees of the Old Hall Inn have yet to put on any real ale. They also seem to have limited ranges of other beers. 
Added: January 6, 2010
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Name: phil gregg From: camra
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From Quaffer & Scoffer in The South Yorkshire Times AN HISTORIC pub that was only saved from burning down by Fire Service managers, has risen from the ashes and is back pulling pints for village punters. The Elephant and Castle on Tinglebridge Lane, Hemingfield, near Barnsley was severely damaged in the blaze on Saturday, October 30. The fire started in the oven and the backdraught blew the chef across the room. It quickly spread through the kitchen, forcing staff and customers to evacuate the building. South Yorkshire firemen were on strike at the time and the pub was attended by managers who were responding to emergencies in place of the FBU men. Assistant Chief Fire Officer John Hoey was among manager crews from Mexborough and Barnsley fire stations who arrived to find flames bursting out of the kitchen door and windows upon arrival. The bosses succeeded in confining the fire to the kitchen area of the pub, which is part of the Punch Taverns chain. There was extensive damage to the inside, and most of the smoke and fire damaged interior had to be either refurbished or replaced with the total bill rising to around £100,000. But after weeks of repair work, the venue was re-opened on Friday, November 27, by the Mayor of Barnsley John Parkinson. Manageress Patricia Watson told Scoffer and Quaffer that the business was now getting back on its feet. She said: "The fire was devastating. We have been flooded twice before, but I think that the fire was even worse than that. "The fire caused some much damage in the kitchen that we have do a re-fit, and all the pictures, drinks and other things had to go from the main pub due to the smoke damage. We've also had a lot of the furniture cleaned and re-polished. "We have gone for a more contemporary look now and business is starting to come back. We get local people in, and people who from Rotherham, Barnsley, Doncaster, even Sheffield for the food we put on." "I just want to say thank you to all the businesses who have done the work, I would say eight to 10 weeks of work has been crammed into just a few weeks which has been amazing. We have also had support from Punch Taverns every step of the way. "We still get people coming in and saying that they did not realise that we had re-opened again. "I just want to let people know that we are open for business."
Added: January 6, 2010
News submitted by
Name: Nigel Croft
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The Cross at Royston is now offering Black Sheep as a guest beer alongside its John Smiths Cask. 
Added: December 18, 2009
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Name: Phil Gregg From: camra
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A PUB inferno that started hours after the final drink had been served was arson, say fire-fighters. The Woolley - known as the Miners' Welfare - closed on Tuesday when the lease expired. Early the next morning it was well alight and parts of the pub, on Bloomhouse Lane, Woolley Colliery, have been demolished for safety. A fire service spokesman said: "Investigations revealed the cause of the fire to be deliberate." Police are investigating. Admin reply: With the stabalising in the housing market, are we about to see the old trick of torching empty pubs for cheap demolition return! 
Added: December 13, 2009
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Name: Phil Gregg From: Camra
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Planning has been submitted to demolish Darfield W.M.C (Snape Hill) for housing. The club has recently been refurbished but has been a target for vandalism. Admin reply: From Quaffer & Scoffer in the South Yorkshire Times A WORKING Men's Club that has been a Darfield hub for 47 years is set to close. The club on the corner of Upperwood and Snape Hill Roads still proudly displays an old NUM flag in its concert room, but the community that once supported the club has faded away. That fact, coupled with repeated vandal attacks from smashed windows to spray paint on the building after a handful of people were barred, is leading its owner of over two years to consider packing in. Developer Ryan Morley has five other South Yorkshire clubs he has renovated and turned around into profit-making concerns. Darfield is the first "failure" he has encountered, despite his investing £80,000 in a full refurbishment of the whole place bar the concert room. But the club, that opened in 1962, is not the only one with a lost future in the area. Within spitting distance are four others for sale or lease, offering development opportunities. An outline planning application for housing for 12 units on the WMC site has gone before Barnsley planners, but as a speculative move only, Quents was told. Should business miraculously pick up in the New Year, the club will stay open and that is what the owner insists he would love to happen. He is adamant that he is no nasty developer and would use any option he could to keep the club open. But, he added, he is losing too much money on it to carry on. Renovation of the club was completed only six months ago in a bid to attract more people in, but it hasn't happened, a club regular said. It is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesday and opens from 5pm to midnight now instead of its previous hours of noon to midnight. He said: "There have been regular turns, pool nights, a weekly family disco, everything – but no-one's got any money, and this club is jeopardising the others Ryan has that are doing well. "If it could just make enough to cover its mortgage he would keep it on. He got rid of the druggies and the scrappers from the pub to attract the decent people in, but there aren't enough of them around, it seems. "It's a great shame for those that do want to keep it and use it." The Sportsman was another local pub that suffered from vandal attacks before its shutters went down. Darfield WMC has until Christmas before its owner may do the same.
Added: December 6, 2009
News submitted by
Name: Nigel Croft From: Barnsley CAMRA
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The Black Bull, Grange Lane, Stairfoot is now serving John Smiths Cask.
Added: December 4, 2009
News submitted by
Name: Andy Kelly From: Old Hall Inn
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This weeks guest ale's at the Old Hall in are Acorn Barnsley Bitter & Wychwood Dogs Bo***cks both £2.50 a pint I'm having a leaving party this saturday and all are welcome there will be three guest ale's on the night. Acorn Barnsley Bitter, Kelham Island Pale Rider & Rudgate Ruby Mild hope to see you all there
Added: December 1, 2009
News submitted by
Name: Phil Gregg
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There is a new landlady at Thawleys Low Valley.According to the chronicle she is is the former landlady of the Perrywinkle.
Added: December 1, 2009
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Name: Phil Gregg
From: Camra
The Silkstone Inn (wetherspoons) are refusing to serve people with children as its 'company policy' well I call it discrimination as they're fine about serving the local drunks but not respectable families!
Admin reply: I thought the policy was 2 drinks if you were eating or not. Obviously I was wrong!I still think its a daft rule though! ( I'll have to order the cheapest item on the menu on my next trip) a portion of chips for 70p