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Eric Brook was an English Association Football player for Barnsley, Manchester City and England, for whom he made 18 appearances in full international matches between 1929 and 1937. He was born in 1908 and died in 1965.
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Norman Hunter was an English association football player. He was born in 1943 at Eighton Banks. He started playing professionally for Leeds United FC in 1961, making 724 appearances before leaving Leeds for Bristol City FC in 1976 for whom he made 108 appearances before moving to Barnsley FC in 1979. He retired from professional football in 1983. During his career he was captain of the English soccer squad twenty-eight times. Norman Hunter played as a defender, and had a reputation for being an aggressive player, the popular saying at the time being 'Norman Hunter bites yer legs'.
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David Bradley is an English actor. He was born in 1955 at Barnsley, Yorkshire. He first appeared on screen in the 1969 film 'Kes' starring as 'Billy Casper'.
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Stan Richards was an English actor. He was born in 1930 at Barnsley, Yorkshire and died in 2005 of emphysema. He is best remembered for playing 'Seth Armstrong' in the television soap-opera 'Emmerdale Farm' from 1978 to 2003 and again in 2004.
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HMS Magnet (formerly the Barnsley) was a British Bayonet Class boom defence vessel of 530 tons displacement launched in 1938. HMS Magnet had a top speed of 11.5 knots and was armed with a 3-inch anti-aircraft gun.
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Barnsley (recorded in the Domesday Book as Berneslai) is an industrial town in South Yorkshire, England.
Barnsley (recorded in the Domesday Book as Bernesleis) is a village in Gloucestershire.
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See Also:
 Map of Barnsley and Sheffield c1905
 Map of Yorkshire 1906
Barnsley War Cry is Yorkshire slang for 'How Much?!', incredulity at a perceived inflated price.
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