There are many communities in South Yorkshire which have, or had, what you could justifiably call “split personalities”.
They existed pretty cheerfully for centuries, muddling along with their rural ways. And then the industrial revolution made its impact – it could have been coal, or steel, or the mills. From an economy founded on the fields and the crops, it was changed almost overnight.
Armthorpe is a perfect case in point, a tiny village surrounded by rolling farmland one minute, and the next, home to thriving pits. Coal was exported for decade after decade, and then, in a reversal of policies from on-high, everything shut down. With the mines went a lot of the nearby businesses.
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