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Sarah Senior of Hartley House died aged 70 on 1st September 1929, and her husband Henry Woolly Senior died there aged 78 on 9th November 1934. Both were buried at Tinsley Park. Henry started work as a grocery assistant at the B&C Co-Op in 1877 and in 1883 was appointed General Manager of the society, and built up the society until he retired in 1925. He was associated with Carbrook Parish church for many years until he moved to live at Hartley House in the early 1900s, when he became a member of St Cuthberts at Firvale. His interest outside work was agriculture and he was often a judge of horses at agricultural shows. The Hartley House premises were converted into a social club immediately following Mr Senior's death, with an extension to allow concerts and billiards opened in April 1937. The club was affiliated to the CIU in December 1936. Whitbreads supplied the beer (via Gaskell & Chambers' Patent Leatherless Beer Engines) and Wiley & Co the wines and spirits.

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Last year the building opened as the new South Yorkshire Natural History Museum. It has a blue plaque outside marking its Styrian steel past.

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The most noticeable thing to me in the first picture is that the glass and concrete building that replaced the Cinema House looks out of place and spoils the view.