{"id":657506,"date":"2025-12-27T08:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657506\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:58:11","slug":"increase-in-visitors-to-elsecar-heritage-centre-in-barnsley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657506\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase in visitors to Elsecar Heritage Centre in Barnsley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The next phase of the redevelopment, however, is on pause while work on the drainage system is carried out to cope with the anticipated increase in visitor numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Franklin said: &#8220;It&#8217;s Victorian drainage as you can imagine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not had a lot of attention over the years so in the interim the money that we&#8217;ve received is going to secure the fabric of the site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The work, which began in October, is expected to be completed by spring or summer 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If additional funding becomes available Franklin said there were other projects to work on, such as re-opening the heritage railway that used to run on the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are also ambitions to put more of Elsecar&#8217;s history on show by uncovering the kilns used in the ironworking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The vision is that we need to show people what their parents and grandparents and great-grandparents did as an everyday work place in Elsecar,&#8221; Franklin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Because some of the bridges throughout the world were actually produced at Elsecar and at Milton Ironworks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The next phase of the redevelopment, however, is on pause while work on the drainage system is carried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-657506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115790709004714181","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}