Character
The seat is most heavily populated on its eastern fringe, with communities built largely on the coal and steel industries, such as the ex-mining village of Dodworth and the steelworking town of Stocksbridge. Penistone too has a history of steelworking at the David Brown and Hitech foundries, although many local people have been employed at the Hepworth pipeworks (formerly Hepworth Iron Co./Hepworth Building Products). Between these urban areas are rural villages including Oxspring, Wortley, Greenmoor and Thurgoland. The western area of the constituency is in the Peak District National Park.
The seat contains a number of old stately homes. Cannon Hall is now in the hands of Barnsley Council, while Wortley Hall (ancestral home of the Wortley-Montagu family) is now owned by trade unions. Part of Wentworth Castle is used as a residential adult education establishment.
Read more about this topic: Penistone And Stocksbridge (UK Parliament Constituency)
Famous quotes containing the word character:
“A faithful lover is a character greatly out of date, and rarely now used but to adorn some romantic novel, or for a flourish on the stage. He passes now for a man of little merit, or one who knows nothing of the world.”
—Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany, p. 20 (April 1803)
“With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.”
—Clarence Darrow (1857–1938)
“A man’s character is his fate.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–c. 475 BC)