Blue plaque for Barnsley gay couple who 'defied convention'

Blue plaque for Barnsley gay couple who 'defied convention'

Maurice Dobson and Fred Halliday met during World War Two and opened a store in Darfield, Barnsley.

'Let the pink sun never set' - tribute to Darfield's famously gay couple

FEW Darfield residents will be unfamiliar with the names of Maurice Dobson and Fred Halliday - shopkeepers and openly gay in an era of general intolerance.

Blue plaque for Barnsley gay couple who 'defied convention' - Finnoexpert

Tom MacDougallBBC News, Yorkshire Maurice Dobson Museum The convenience store which Maurice Dobson and Fred Halliday ran together is now the Maurice Dobson Museum and Heritage Centre A blue plaque dedicated to a gay couple who “defied convention” during the 1950s and 60s has been unveiled at the site of the shop they ran. Maurice Dobson and Fred Halliday met during World War Two. In 1956, they opened a well-known convenience store in Darfield,…