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WORKERS from the former industries of glass production and mining straddle Barnsley’s town crest, above the Latin motto Spectemur Agendo — “Judge us by our actions.”
That’s a fitting motto too for Barnsley’s new post-punk rock stars The Hurriers, who proudly proclaim: “We’re a proper socialist band like every town should have.”
Named after the children and women who used to work moving the coal in the pre-reform mines, the band are proud of their roots and belonging to a community that Margaret Thatcher described as “the enemy within.”
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