I think it's the photos that first got me into doing family history research. I've got photos of three lots of great-greats and two lots greats.

I was amazed to find some illustrations of the Oaks Colliery Disaster on the web - in the shape of drawings from the Illustrated London News. Of course they were probably drawn by artists who'd never been anywhere near Barnsley (after all a colliery is a colliery to a Londoner) but they're still interesting.