Hemsworth, Market Street 1965
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The discovery of the Barnsley Main coal seam totally transformed the town from relying on agriculture to mining the new gold, coal. The sinking of the Fitzwilliam and the South Kirkby pits in the 1870s led to a huge rise in the population; the town was rebuilt with hundreds of back-to-back terraced houses. Two railways vied for the Hemsworth coal trade - the Wakefield to Doncaster in the 1860s, and the Barnsley and Hull Railway from 1880.
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