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Bentley Park
This photograph is of me and my brother and our friends playing on the 'bumper'. I'm the girl stood up on the bumper with my back to the camera, next to the crouching boy...and my brother is the boy also stood up on the bumper most, facing the camera, 3rd from the left. We all spent every waking moment in the park...those were the days! My daughter suprised me at Christmas with a copy of this photo.
Skellow Hall Children's Home
I can remember the day I first went to Skellow, in the year 1950. I was put into the children's home at the top of Skellow Road where three of my brothers were at the time. The superintendent then was Mr Rhodes and his wife Mary. They only lasted four years of my childhood as the new superintendent came, who was there till the day I left, some nine years later. Lads attended the local schools, first the older lads who attended Skellow Secondary Modern School and I at the infant school that was joined on to it. The building was far smaller than what is there now, plenty of room to play and orchards which bears a variety of fruit. The old stables were in good order and the coach houses used as garages. My memories were of good and bad of my treatment at the home, but as far as I'm concerned will be with me for the rest of my days, I hope to finish a book... Read more
Intake Playgrounds
I have mentioned in passing that Intake did not have the same panache as say Balby, Hexthorpe or Armthorpe in places of entertainment but it did provide some wide open spaces to play in. Over the Armthorpe Road opposite Flint House, there was the disused sand quarry of the Brick Marketing Company which was being used by the local authourity for dumping the Borough's rubbish and this was a goldmine for destitute youngsters. Old bikes or prams were much sought after items and many a trolley or bike was constructed from these treasures, and many happy hours spent playing on them. Another bar of gold were car tyres [or bowlers] and with the aid of a short stick would be bowled all over Intake. If your mother sent you on an errand to the shops or wherever, the first thing anyone did was pick up his bowler. Another place to visit was the Boating Lake [Sandal Park]. There was no road from Armthorpe Water Tower to Sandal Park in those... Read more
After The War
I do not know the exact year that Doncaster had its first Royal visit after the Second World War had ended but all the school children in the parish were required to put on their best bibs and tuckers for school and we were then walked to the Grandstand Road next to the Fire Station where we were given little Union Jacks, so that when the King came by we could give him a cheering Doncaster reception. In due course the Royal carriage appeared and we were told to cheer and wave our flags. In the carriage was King George the Sixth, Queen Elizabeth [the currant Queen's mother] and Queen Mary [the King's mother]. When the carriage reached our group, the Queen turned in our direction, she seemed to be looking straight at me and she gave me the most beautiful smile. I fell in love with her there and then and although she did not get the best press reports as she got a little older, I remained... Read more
To Wheatley And Back
After the Second World War and during the austere period of rationing, among the items that were in short supply was coal. People would burn anything in order to keep warm, and many were the trips that I made to Flint Woods for wood. My dad had a big saw and it was my job to cut these tree trunks into small logs. Also, in addition, we would burn coke. This was obtained from the Gas Works on Wheatley Hall Road and it was also down to me to fetch it. Why this was is because I had a trolley and that was essential for the task. Every Saturday morning during winter-time, I would be given sixpence and a large sack, take up the ropes of my trolley and pull it to Wheatley where I would then wait in line for my coke ticket [sixpence or two and a half pence], and when I say waiting in line, is because hundreds of kids like me would also be there, with... Read more
The Intake Social Club Outings
After the Second World War had finished, and the people were already used to rationing, the Committee members of the Intake Club decided to relieve the hardships on the residents of Intake a little by organising outings for their members. These took the form of trips to the seaside and Chirstmas pantomines and was paid for by asking its members to save a few shillings a week with the Club. On the appointed day, we all congregated in Manor Drive where a fleet of buses waited to ferry us to the Doncaster Railway Station, and waiting for us there, was a train, a complete train, 12 or13 coaches, that would take us all to CLEETHORPES. This was a place that we had heard of but not one of us had seen, a mystical magical land of sea, sand, donkeys, fun fairs and roundabouts and we were going there. During the journey, members of the Committee came round and gave us a quarter pound of sweets [the weekly ration was two... Read more
Training to be A Bricklayer
During my chidhood I was to perform lots of different tasks that would make life for my mother a little easier. I did not know it at the time but she was actually training me for my working life. Not only did I run errands, help turn the handle of the mangle on wash day, chop sticks for the fire, fill the coal bucket and fetch and carry whatever was required, I also bred rabbits for the pot and these needed feeding and cleaning out. [I have never eaten rabbit in my life, possibly because I saw them as pets]. In October 1951, I became eligible for a paper round. In those days, a lad or girl had to be 12 years old to qualify. I duly attained a job with Shaws Newsagent on Cantley Bridge and was paid the princely sum of twelve shillings and sixpence a week [62 new pence]. My round consisted of all the streets on the Doncaster side of Cantley Bridge, Avenue Road, St. Augustines,... Read more
