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New Rossington, a village lying to the south of Doncaster, was created when the colliery was sunk into the rich South Yorkshire coalfield.

Doncaster's electric street tramway opened in 1902 and lasted until 1935, when trolley buses took over.

Doncaster owes its transformation from an agricultural to an industrial centre to the coming of the railways.

Doncaster owes its transformation from an agricultural to an industrial centre to the coming of the railways.

Just south of Carlton is the hamlet of Wigthorpe, no more than a few stone houses and cottages on a tranquil lane now by- passed by the Doncaster Road.

Doncaster's electric street tramway opened on 2 June 1902; it operated fifteen open-top cars, each capable of carrying a total of 56 passengers.

Had this picture been taken a few months earlier, Doncaster's then second most familiar landmark after St George's would have been captured on camera.

The magnificent sweep of York station dates from the completion of the Doncaster-Selby-York line.

As the town became more industrialised, the old Dispensary (in College Street since 1828) was replaced by this fine hospital in 1872, built in Babb's Croft along the Doncaster Road.

This well-preserved village, built around the old Wadworth Hall, lies just south of Doncaster.

In medieval times Tickhill, which lies 4 miles south of Doncaster, was more important than Sheffield; its castle, built about 1130, was one of the most important in the north - we can just

The commanding tower of the village parish church overlooks the quiet South Yorkshire village of Sprotbrough, now divorced from the neighbouring town of Doncaster by the busy A1M motorway.

In an earlier age Barnsley was served by stagecoach services to and from London, Leeds, Sheffield and Doncaster.

Askern is seven miles north of Doncaster.

The Doncaster Mutual Co-operative Society is on the left of the picture, and Glyn's Temperance Hotel is immediately behind the tram.

The White Hart Inn at Wadworth, south of Doncaster, was once an important stopping place on the old Great North Road.

The White Hart was once a posting house from which stagecoaches made daily runs to Hull, Doncaster and Sheffield.

six massive buttresses was built about 1180 by Henry II's half-brother, Hamelin Plantagenet, and still comes as a surprise as you approach this small South Yorkshire village on the A630 south west of Doncaster

The White Hart was once a posting house from which stagecoaches made daily runs to Hull, Doncaster and Sheffield.

A landmark on the Bawtry-Thorne road, the Blue Bell Inn stands at the crossroads of the Doncaster-Epworth road in the heart of the low-lying Hatfield Moors, close to the RAF station at Finningley.

The magnificent sweep of York station dates from the completion of the Doncaster-Selby-York line.

Coal mining was a major employer: Doncaster was ringed with pit villages.

There have been race meetings in Doncaster since 1600, but it was the St Leger of 1776 that put the town on the racing calendar.

In an earlier age Barnsley was served by stagecoach services to and from London, Leeds, Sheffield and Doncaster.