THE Yotar Sports football teams from the 1950s to the 1970s were highly-successful. The team, formed in 1950, represented Yorkshire Tar Distillers of Stairfoot, and appeared in numerous finals, winning several trophies and taking runners-up spot on umpteen occasions.

IS anyone interested in meeting their former classmates who attended Racecommon Road Senior Girls' School in 1950/51? The girls would be born around 1936 to 1937 and it will now be well over half-a-century since they last saw each other

THE first post-war secondary modern school to be built in the Barnsley borough was opened by the Mayor, Ald Mrs Mary Brannan on May 6 1957. Known as the Edward Sheerien, it was named after Ald E Sheerien who had been a member of Barnsley Town Council since 1923.

CAN any of our readers throw any light on the history of an Ardsley monument? Memories heard from Frank Brown who told us he had recently walked along a footpath which runs behind the brickworks on Wombwell Lane leading to a trail between Wombwell and Stairfoot.

MEMORIES has received several photographs of schoolchildren who attended Wilthorpe Junior School in the 1940s and Barnsley Girls' High School staff and pupils taken during the 1960s. They were submitted by a former headmaster and Barnsley college lecturer Jeffrey Hall who was a pupil at the Wilthorpe school. He now lives in Wales.