I am looking for any photographs of the SSYN taken in the Rotherham area. My grandfather, my father and mother, and all of my paternal uncles worked on this canal. I grew up with the canal on one side of the house and the River Don on the other - a real waterbaby, eh? On the SSYN we had the very large barges not the narrowboats as I see down here in Gas Street Basin (Birmingham). If anyone does have any photographs, I would be more than happy to pay for copies to be taken. When growing up, unlike most other children who used to catch a bus or tram to visit family, I used to hitch a ride on a barge. What a way to grow up. The canal is hard 'mother and father', as at an early age one learnt the dangers of getting too close to the edge - watching whilst the police dragged the bottom looking for a body - and the feelings when a body was found. But on the lighter side, what an adventure playground, and such a large extended family. We always felt safe with the bargees and their families. I still have the old china boot that Dad bought for us to collect the pennies the bargees used to throw when the bridge was opened. These pennies were hoarded, and just before our holidays the Kilnhurst Co-op man used to change them into half-crowns, two bob pieces or even a ten-bob note! And, may I add, that I'm not exactly Methuselah, even though I must sound like it after the reminiscing!! What a brilliant listing. Regards Sammy