The Trackless Buses

A Memory of Doncaster.

As a child in the late 1950s, I remember catching the trackless trolley bus in St. Sepulchre Gate, we lived on Beckett Road at the time, and caught the bus for home outside Hodgeson and Hepworths (Grocers), which was later demolished to make room for the 'Arndale Centre', now the Frenchgate Centre.

I remember one occasion when one of the poles connecting the bus to the overhead cable came off. The conductor had to get the long pole, attached to the outside of the bus, and re-connect to the cable before we could move.