Cudworth Old and New

Cudworth, just past Monk Bretton and Lundwood in Barnsley

Cudworth on an August Bank Holiday Saturday morning. It was a warm sunny day, for a change, so perhaps even busier than usual.

Cudworth, by mid-morning was nice to enjoy a coffee, sat outside Poppy’s cafe. There were plenty of shoppers and people going about their business along the main thoroughfare, Barnsley Road, and loads of traffic passing by. On the pavement individuals stopped for a chat and greetings were exchanged between pedestrians and passing motorists. There’s a good range of shops and services, even a couple of furniture stores (Roberts’) and it soon became clear that a lot of hard work has been done in recent years by community volunteers, councillors and professionals in key social and economic areas, part of the regeneration of the Borough as a whole, bringing Cudworth out of the doldrums following the 1984/85 miners’ strike.

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