Pits To Pitches

16/05/2026

🎥⚒️ Filming Day Tomorrow at Grimethorpe Working Men’s Club! ⚽

Just a quick reminder that we’ll be at Grimethorpe Working Men’s Club tomorrow (Sunday 17th May) from 10am–12pm for our From Pits to Pitches filming day.

It’s really laid back — just pop in for a brew, a chat, and share a few memories if you’d like. No pressure at all!

If you’re a former miner, sports player, welfare member, or simply have stories, photos, or memorabilia linked to Grimethorpe, we’d love to see you.

Come down, say hello, and help us celebrate Grimethorpe’s proud heritage 🙌 please share!

08/05/2026

Sunday the 17th please re share and reach as many people as possible. Anyone in any Grimethorpe group please share in those! Any questions DM me 👍

🎥⚒️ From Pits to Pitches – Grimethorpe Filming Day! ⚽🏏

We’re excited to announce that our next oral history filming day will be taking place at:

📍 Grimethorpe Working Men’s Club
📅 Sunday 17th
⏰ 10:00am – 12:00pm

We’re looking for:
👉 Former miners
👉 Former local sports players
👉 Welfare members
👉 Anyone with stories, memories, photos, medals, or memorabilia linked to Grimethorpe’s mining and sporting heritage

This is your chance to help preserve Grimethorpe’s proud history for future generations as part of the From Pits to Pitches project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Your stories will help us build a lasting digital archive, inspire local school children, and celebrate the role mining communities played in shaping sport and community spirit.

💬 Pop down, have a chat, share your memories, or simply come and find out more.

Please share this post and help us spread the word across Grimethorpe! 🙌

30/04/2026

🎥⚒️ From Pits to Pitches – Grimethorpe Filming Day! ⚽🏏

We’re excited to announce that our next oral history filming day will be taking place at:

📍 Grimethorpe Working Men’s Club
📅 Sunday 17th
⏰ 10:00am – 12:00pm

We’re looking for:
👉 Former miners
👉 Former local sports players
👉 Welfare members
👉 Anyone with stories, memories, photos, medals, or memorabilia linked to Grimethorpe’s mining and sporting heritage

This is your chance to help preserve Grimethorpe’s proud history for future generations as part of the From Pits to Pitches project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Your stories will help us build a lasting digital archive, inspire local school children, and celebrate the role mining communities played in shaping sport and community spirit.

💬 Pop down, have a chat, share your memories, or simply come and find out more.

Please share this post and help us spread the word across Grimethorpe! 🙌

16/04/2026

Brian, who filmed with us at Woolley is on this brilliant photo!
Grimethorpe filming date hopefully coming soon!

13/04/2026

Evening all, dies anyone have a contact for Grimethorpe WMC? We would really like to use the venue for our last filming day.

14/03/2026

👏 A Big Thank You to Billy Addy

We’d like to say a huge thank you to Billy Addy, who has been working on the Pits to Pitches project since September.

Billy has played a massive role in the success of the project so far — helping us capture stories, connect with communities and bring the proud mining and sporting heritage of our villages to life.

From supporting filming days to working with local schools, his effort and enthusiasm have made a real difference.

Projects like this only work because of people who care about preserving our history and sharing it with the next generation — and Billy has been a huge part of that.

Thank you Billy for everything you’ve done so far for Pits to Pitches. 👏⛏️⚽

11/03/2026

We had some brilliant engagement yesterday from our class at Upperwood in Darfield! These amazing pieces were brought in by the children 👍 National Coal Mining Museum for England

10/03/2026

🙏 Thank You Dodworth

A big thank you to everyone who came along to our Pits to Pitches Filming Day at Tappers in Dodworth.

It was fantastic to hear so many brilliant stories about life in the pits, local sports teams, the welfare and the community spirit that made Dodworth such a special place.

We’re especially grateful to everyone who shared memories, brought along photographs, medals and memorabilia, and helped us capture an important part of the village’s history.

These stories and images will now become part of the Pits to Pitches project, helping educate young people in local schools and preserving Dodworth’s proud mining and sporting heritage for future generations.

Thank you again for your support — and for helping keep these stories alive. ⛏️⚽

03/03/2026

Today marks the anniversary of the end of the Miners’ Strike a moment that shaped communities like ours forever.

For many families in Darfield and across Barnsley, the strike wasn’t just something in a history book. It was lived. It was felt. It changed livelihoods, villages and futures.

As we remember that day, it feels especially meaningful that this week our team begins a 10-week project at Darfield Upperwood School.

We’ll be working with young people to help them understand their village’s proud mining and sporting heritage where it came from, what it meant to families, and why it still matters today.

The stories, the resilience, the community spirit and the role sport played in bringing people together, these are things worth preserving and passing on.

Because our history isn’t just about the past.

It helps shape who we are.

27/02/2026

Football By The Slag Heaps

This clip, from the 1975 BBC ‘Shafts Of Sunlight’ shows Frickley Athletic FC, from South Elmsall, West Yorkshire as they battle it out on a pitch set against slag heaps. Football was intrinsically linked with mining and the communities that emerged from it. Many miners welfare teams still exist, including Frickley Athletic, who went on to reach the FA Cup in the 1980s.

To watch the full film follow this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Farchive%2Fomnibus--shafts-of-sunlight%2Fzr4m92p