Yorkshire's Designed Landscapes -The Role of Town Memorials in Barnsley

Previous series presented by Yorkshire Gardens Trust in association with the Gardens Trust have largely focussed on the great estates of the county. This series, presented by specialists in their fields, explores a variety of other types of designed landscapes through thought-provoking and meaningful presentations.

This ticket is for this individual session and costs £8, and you may purchase tickets for the other individual session via the link below, or you may purchase a ticket for all sessions at a cost of £28 via the link here. [Gardens Trust and Yorkshire Gardens Trust Members may purchase tickets at £21 for the series or £6 each talk].

Ticket sales close 4 hours before the talk.

Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk, and again a few hours before the talk (If you do not receive this link please contact us). A link to the recorded session will be sent shortly after each session and will be available for 2 weeks .

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Week 1. 17 September: The role of town memorials: collective memory, counter-memory, and forgetting in Barnsley. First of 4 online talks £8 each or all 4 for £28 (Gardens Trust and Yorkshire Gardens Trust Members £6 or £21)

Week 2. 24 September: Gale Common Artificial Hill of Fly Ash – a new landscape feature. Second of 4 online talks £8 each or all 4 for £28 (Gardens Trust and Yorkshire Gardens Trust Members £6 or £21)

Week 3. 1 October: 'One of the first that brought our northern gentry into the method of planting and raising all kinds of forest trees, for use and ornament’: the role of early Yorkshire nurseries in northern plantations. Third of 4 online talks £8 each or all 4 for £28 (Gardens Trust and Yorkshire Gardens Trust Members £6 or £21)

Week 4. 8 October: Bolton Abbey: A Picturesque Landscape Garden. Last of 4 online talks £8 each or all 4 for £28 (Gardens Trust and Yorkshire Gardens Trust Members £6 or £21)

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Week 1. 17 September: The role of town memorials: collective memory, counter-memory, and forgetting in Barnsley with John Land

Memorialisation is a fascinating topic. Several theories exist around how and why we memorialise in the ways that we do, and how processes of remembering and forgetting occur in competition but also relate to and condition one another. Furthermore, different opinions have developed around how these processes come to inform the ways that we understand our identities and sense of place. This talk will explore how different theories surrounding memorialisation can enable us to understand what people think the roles of memorials are in Barnsley. The focus of the talk will be on Barnsley’s coal mining and war history, and the ways that memorials can either successfully or unsuccessfully convey messages about the past and therefore inform people’s understandings of the past and their place in the present.

John Land is a final year PhD student in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield. His thesis explores the roles that memorials have for people in post-industrial communities and how landscapes of memory can be both sites of competing ideas and sites at which identity and a sense of place are moulded. His specific interest is in Barnsley’s memorial landscapes, and the ways in which coal mining heritage is memorialised in very different ways to the town’s First and Second World War heritage. The different ways these pasts are memorialised can tell us more about how and why some pasts maintain relevance across time and how certain pasts come to inform identity.

Image: Oaks Disaster Memorial, located in the grounds of Christ Church Ardsley, Barnsley, ©John Land

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