Grimethorpe was aptly named. A shabby village in the bleak South Yorkshire flatlands, its sole claim to fame is the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, a brass ensemble made up mostly of local mine workers. So ...

Chief reporter JACK TOLSON takes a look back through the Chronicle Archives from March 1994AID FOR FORMER COLLIERY WORKE...

GRIMETHORPE, England — Grimethorpe is dying. Once it was a proud coal-mining village. Now its silent streets, vacant lots and bricked-up buildings -- “In Cod We Trust,” proclaims a flaking chip-shop ...

GRIMETHORPE, England (Reuters Life!) - They sound as loud and confident as the day their mine shut, but 15 years on, the changes are plain - only two members of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band have ever ...

World famous Grimethorpe Colliery Band - which featured in the hit film, Brassed Off - is to play a rare intimate concert at the region’s National Coal Mining Museum for England. Did you know with a ...

Though it's been more than 30 years since the closure of Grimethorpe Colliery in Barnsley, the spirit among the former miners remains as strong as ever. On a rain-sodden December afternoon, hundreds ...

Formed in 1917, during the First World War, Grimethorpe Colliery Band is a British institution. National and British Open Champions on numerous occasions, the band’s contest successes remain legendary ...

Brassed Off is celebrating its 21st birthday next year and there'll be no better way to celebrate than to watch it projected in the Royal Albert Hall with a live score by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band ...

It’s been 18 years since the film Brassed Off put the former mining village of Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire, on the map. Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor and Pete Postlethwaite starred in the film based ...

A brass band which inspired a box office hit has been honoured with a blue plaque in the group's centenary year. Brassed Off, which starred the late British acting legend Pete Postlethwaite, featured ...