Places
36 places found.
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- Doncaster, Yorkshire
- Conisbrough, Yorkshire
- Bentley, Yorkshire
- Adwick Le Street, Yorkshire
- Mexborough, Yorkshire
- Thorne, Yorkshire
- Bawtry, Yorkshire
- Tickhill, Yorkshire
- Sprotbrough, Yorkshire
- Armthorpe, Yorkshire
- Skellow, Yorkshire
- Wadworth, Yorkshire
- Belton, Humberside (near Doncaster)
- Finningley, Yorkshire
- New Rossington, Yorkshire
- Rossington, Yorkshire
- Loversall, Yorkshire
- Blaxton, Yorkshire
- Askern, Yorkshire
- Austerfield, Yorkshire
- Far Bank, Yorkshire
- Doncaster Common, Yorkshire
- Moorhouse, Yorkshire
- Littleworth, Yorkshire
- Haywood, Yorkshire
- Moss, Yorkshire
- Wheatley, Yorkshire (near Doncaster)
- Branton, Yorkshire
- Waterside, Yorkshire
- Newton, Yorkshire (near Doncaster)
- Cadeby, Yorkshire
- Hatfield, Yorkshire
- Highfields, Yorkshire
- Fenwick, Yorkshire
- Intake, Yorkshire (near Doncaster)
- Cantley, Yorkshire
Photos
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Maps
624 maps found.
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Memories
76 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
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 ...Read more
A memory of Intake in 1951 by
Sunday At The Dell
During the long summer Sundays of 1947, the pleasures that were afforded by many Doncastrians were few and far between.Sunday, being a non-work day for the man of the house (if not the woman, Sunday dinner to make, pots to ...Read more
A memory of Doncaster in 1947 by
Steamtrains, Servicemen And Central Station.
The journey up to and across London to King's Cross Station in 1944 for a 4-year old boy was exciting enough, but our adventure had only just begun. Holding my mother's hand tightly, we ...Read more
A memory of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1940 by
School Days And Beyond
Having just stumbled on this website I felt compelled to add my recollections of living in Fenham in Cheeseburn Gardens from circa 1961 to 1980. I lived 2 streets down the hill from the first contributor who lived in Ovington ...Read more
A memory of Fenham by
Special Memories
I was born and brought up in Worksop but Carlton holds special memories around the late 1950s and early 1960s. I bought my Austin-Healey Sprite from Joe Lacey's garage in 1959 which, as a student, was my pride and joy ...Read more
A memory of Carlton in Lindrick in 1960 by
Ackworth
My grandparents (Mr and Mrs Scorah) used to live in Town End Avenue, Low Ackworth. I remember visiting them with my mother, while my dad was at war. We used to catch the bus from Scunthorpe to Waterdale, Doncaster. Then we would ...Read more
A memory of Ackworth in 1940 by
Goldthorpe Chemist
I was born in Bolton on Dearne in 1948; my grandfather was Guy Lewis the Goldthorpe chemist whose shop was in Doncaster Road. My grandparents lived in Market Street (number 5) Has anyone a photograph that might show the chemists shop? My grandfather retired about 1963. David Lewis
A memory of Goldthorpe by
Way Back
I used to stay at the"Almel Hotel"&the"Salutation"in Doncaster whenever I was on the long haul up to Northern Scotland
A memory of Doncaster by
Palmers Green 1946/7.
Shorltly after the World War 2 I visited Palmers Green with my parents and we visited an Aunt who lived in some flats very close to a Cinema on the Main Mstreet. The flats had a few Garages at the rear and I still have a rough ...Read more
A memory of Salford by
Memories
My grandparents lived on Melton Road opposite the Ivanhoe,they bought the house from new and paid about £500 for it in the 30s I think,I spent a lot of my summer hols with them and loved it,when grandad was at work me and my gran went to ...Read more
A memory of Sprotbrough by
Captions
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By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778
Two railways vied for the Hemsworth coal trade - the Wakefield to Doncaster in the 1860s, and the Barnsley and Hull Railway from 1880.
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.
Coal mining was a major employer: Doncaster was ringed with pit villages.
By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778
All Saints' parish church was restored in 1873 by Sir Gilbert Scott (he was also responsible for Doncaster's St George's church).
Still close to the Yorkshire county boundary and south- west of Harworth, Oldcotes village is situated at the crossroads of the A634 and A60; Main Street runs east from the A60 Doncaster Road
At the heart of the old village to the west of the Doncaster Road is the parish church with its fine Anglo-Saxon west tower.
By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778.
Out of view on the left is the village, mostly neat former 1950s Coal Board and council houses, and on the right is the main shopping parade along the Doncaster Road.
Station Street turns east from the High Street, and once led to the railway station on the branch line from Gainsborough to Doncaster, closed since the 1960s.
An almost colonial-style veranda with fancy railings is supported on cast-iron pillars with a twisted decoration.
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