Yorbex Official

27/04/2017

26/04/2017

Knottingley Sports Centre was built in 1969 this was the oldest surviving swimming pool in the district but on the 3rd Feb 2017 the doors was closed the pools drained and the lights turned off.
all to make way for a new multi million pound leisure facility to be built at Pontefract park.

04/03/2017

Only managed to do the 1 tunnel as the other which is partly blocked was a little tricky slippy and bloody muddy

21/02/2017

Soon to become a vets and grooming parlour. There is also planning permission to build 5 houses on the site on wakefield road.
Hemsworth fire station built in 1975 closed in 2015, after a new controversial fire station was built in south kirkby business park.
The new station will be staffed by a total of 13 firefighters, compared to the current 24 at South Elmsall and around eight retained firefighters at Hemsworth, although the fire service said it was hopeful that compulsory redundancies would be avoided. The new station is one of nine being built to replace 17 stations across the county by 2020. The South Kirkby development will be a two-bay operational fire station with a separate close-call accommodation building. The new building will have a training tower, a two-bay vehicle garage, offices, a rest and recreation area, a service yard and car parking. West Yorkshire Fire Service was criticised when it first announced the plan, with the Fire Brigades Union saying it would lead to firefighters being made redundant, double the response times to calls and create a difficult working pattern for staff. Coun Steve Tulley – who fought the proposals – said the closure of South Elmsall station, which was built in 1942, would be a great loss to the community.

06/02/2017

A recently closed Working Men's club with planning permission pending for its demolition and the construction of 14 three storey town houses, to which several people have objected.

06/02/2017

History of Pleasure Island, Cleethorpes
Opening on the 27th May 1993, Pleasure Island was a theme park in Cleethorpes featuring 47 rides including roller coasters amongst the thrill rides and numerous smaller rides for younger visitors.

Work began in the 1980s to build the site on the site of a former zoo by the owners of Pleasurewood Hills park near Lowestoft, and the new site in Cleethorpes was set to have the same name. The company went into receivership in the early 1990s and construction was halted. The site was then sold to Robert Gibb, the owner of Flamingo Land in North Yorkshire. Construction resumed and was completed in 1992, opening the following year.

In 2010 Flamingo Land and Pleasure Island were separated into two independent companies, with Robert Gibb retaining Flamingo Land and his sisters Vicky Gibb and Melanie Wood (formerly Gibb) taking control of Pleasure Island. Unexpectedly, the park was temporarily closed in 2010 while negotiations took place, staff and visitors were turned away at the front gate.

A petting zoo was added in 2013, along with a tractor ride replacing an old monorail. In 2016 it was announced the park would be closing at the end of the season, and only the McCormack’s bar would be reopening in 2017.

11/01/2017

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08/01/2017

The water works was built in 1913 to filter and treat water taken from the Dale D**e (the cause of the 1864 great flood of Sheffield),and Agden reservoirs in the nearby Loxley Valley. The water works was cutting edge technology in it's time and it even had the first telephone to be installed in Bradfield back in 1930 apparently.
In 1974 the Yorkshire Water Authority took over and then during the Thatcher government some years later, the entire UK water industry was privatised with the Water Act of 1989. The pumping house at Lower Bradfield was abandoned in 1994 when a new pump house and processing plant was built Further down the Loxley valley. According to the locals the building attracts unwanted visitors and is a constant eyesore and a morbid reminder of Lower Bradfields grim past

08/01/2017

History:
During the 1800s the Loxley Valley became an important producer of refractory bricks for the expanding Sheffield steel industry. The bricks were used to line the furnaces and were made from ganister, a sort of sandstone which was prevalent in the Loxley area. Many ganister mines existed in the area supplying the local firms of Thomas Wragg, Siddons Bros., Hepworths and Thomas Marshall which sprang up in the district and produced the bricks. Refractory production ceased in the area in the 1990s.

08/01/2017

History:

The original school was built in the mid-1950s, with the first intake of pupils in September 1957. What was effectively another school was built in the mid-1960s as part of the move by the West Riding County Council to comprehensive education. It had more facilities than the existing one, including a swimming pool and much enhanced stage facilities in the main hall. The new school took up approximately half of the former playing fields . The second school ran for a year or so as a separate entity before the two merged to become Don Valley Comprehensive School. This naming was only brief and the school was soon renamed back to Don Valley High School, reportedly at the insistence of the then headmaster, Mr Horncastle. The newer school served students in their first three years of senior school, aged 11 to 14; the older school served them in the remainder of their time, aged 14 to 18, and included the lower and upper sixth forms.

In 2006, Don Valley became a Performing Arts College. Every student has a choice of dramatic arts or media to study. In 2011, Don Valley became an academy progressing from a performing arts school.

Now the older portion is set for Demolition within the coming weeks of the start of 2017.

17/12/2016

Grove Street Primary School was built in 1901. The school closed it's doors around 1981 then reopened as an Adult Learning Centre alongside Barnsley Music Association (pads). The two later relocated to Barnsley Civic hall and the former school has stood still in time since 2013. The building is looking into being demolished to make way for a complex of new build houses by the local council and has survived a fire in 2014.