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Royston in Barnsley on a damp and dismal mid-November day.

Never mind, Royston always provides me with positive memories, and it will be interesting to see what changes there have been since my last visit several years ago.

Royston is where I was born, in my maternal grandparents’ house on Newtown Avenue, a neat, inter-war council semi which backed on to a pleasant playing field. After a few months my parents managed to rent a terrace house in nearby Carlton – near Wharncliffe Woodmoor 1, 2 & 3 colliery where my father worked. But visiting Royston to see my grandparents during the fifties and sixties was of course a regular routine. Grandad Charlie Stone worked at the Monckton Coke and Chemical Works.

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