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Hatfield and Stainforth Station in the British town of Doncaster.
20 September 2021
La gare de Hatfield and Stainforth à la ville britannique de Doncaster.
20 septembre 2021
Doncaster Market is a historic and vibrant marketplace in the heart of Doncaster, South Yorkshire. It has been a trading hub since 1248, originally centred around the church of St Mary Magdalene before expanding into a bustling commercial space.
Today, the market offers a diverse range of goods across several distinct areas:
Goose Hill Market: A mix of retail, toys, sweets, poultry, upholstery, and cobbling.
Fish Market: A renowned selection of seafood, including swordfish, shark, and eel, alongside traditional favourites like cod and haddock.
International Food Hall: Butchers, delis, cafés, and specialty stalls featuring cheeses and olives.
Corn Exchange: A historic building with available units for traders.
Wool Market: A modernized space with international eateries, entertainment, and live music.
Outdoor Market: Fresh produce, clothing, florists, and a café.
Antique & Bric-a-Brac Market: Open Wednesdays, featuring vintage and second-hand goods.
The market operates Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 9:00am to 4:30pm, with additional trading on other days depending on the stallholders
Skellow is a village in rural South Yorkshire part of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village is roughly 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Doncaster. The village falls in the Askern Spa Ward of Doncaster MBC. To the north and south is mixed farmland, the A1 runs immediately along the western edge of the village, and to the east Skellow merges with the adjacent village of Carcroft along the B1220 road.
The village derives its name from the River Skell which flows from the nearby village of Skelbrooke, through the locally named 'Five Lanes End' area of Skellow where it joins the Ea Beck, a tributary of the River Don, of which it joins near the former Thorpe Marsh Power Station at Barnby Dun. The village lies on the north side of the east-west Ea Beck valley. To the north-east with access from the village is Burghwallis.
Skellow is well served for open public spaces, with a range of small and medium-sized parks scattered through both the modern housing estates to the west and the older former council estates which border Carcroft. Today most of the western half of Skellow is occupied by a patchwork of late 20th century housing estates.
Skellow is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Ilbert of Lacy, and having villagers, ploughlands, meadows and woodland. The name derives from the nearby River Skell, and various derivations could be behind the name, which Smith suggests is [the] Nook of land or hollow near the Skell (brook). Historically, Skellow was in the Parish of Owston, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross. During the English Civil War, Cromwell placed a cannon battery at the village to protect the Great North Road. The mounds for the cannon still remain and the surrounding area of cottages remain to this day.
On the east bank of the Skell lies old Skellow, a cluster of older houses facing Skellow Hall. The hall was originally built in 1642 and is now in use as a residential care home for the elderly.
Godfrey Higgins was the son of the owner of much of the land, known as Skellow Grange, of what is now Skellow village.
The church of Saint Michael located in the village is a sister church to the nearby Grade I listed Church of All Saints, Owston.
Further east is a sizeable former council housing estate which is in a generally good state of repair, and a good example of the coal mining related social housing developments typical of southern part of the West Riding in the early to mid-20th century. This area is the heart of the village, containing most of the local amenities including various shops and the local primary school. Several local clubs exist on the sites of former working men's clubs, and the area has an active local nightlife including live music events.
Coal mining in the area ceased in the 1980s but some remnants from the industry are visible in the area, including winding wheel relics at Bullcroft. Demographic evidence of the former mining community is also evident in both higher than average levels of unemployment, and a strong sense of community with residents knowing their neighbours and those that live around them.
In 2009, the population was estimated to be 4,103 by Doncaster Metropolitan Council. The national censuses record the population of the village within the Askern Spa Ward.
Another one from 33 years ago - Doncaster in the early hours of 26th July 1980 with 31202 waiting with an up parcels service. Introduced into BR service as D5626 in June 1960, this loco suffered an ignominous fate and was one of two locos that ran away at Cricklewood depot. The incident was on 28 October 1988 and involved 31202 and 31226. 31202 was the leading loco and was withdrawn immediately, whereas 31226 was only officially withdrawn in January 1989. 31202 was cut into two halves on site at Cricklewood prior to removal by road to Berry's scrapyard in Leicester for disposal.
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Class 43 No.43468 passes Doncaster at the head of a Grand Central HST service to London Kings Cross on 7th May 2015.
Class 55 'Deltic' 55002 'The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry' has just arrived at Doncaster station at 01:05 on Friday 26th July 1980, having brought in the 1D26 (FO) 23:40 Hull-Paignton. The throbbing 'Deltic' has just detached from the stock to allow a class 46 No.46017 to take the service forward as the late-running 00:57 departure to Paignton.
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LNER Driving Van Trailer Class 82 82225 at leaving Doncaster with the 1245 Leeds to London Kings Cross and 91101 on the rear 9th February 2023.
Wadworth is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The parish contains 14 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, two are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Wadworth and the surrounding countryside. The most important buildings in the parish are St John's Church and Wadworth Hall, both listed at Grade I. The other listed buildings are structures associated with Wadworth Hall, farmhouses and farm buildings, and the entrance gateway to a school.
29.12.2023.
A busy scene at Doncaster's Decoy Yard - as represented by the Gainsborough Model Railway.
Robinson 0-6-0 'J11' No 64354 and Gresley A4 Pacific 4-6-2 No 4489 'Woodcock' stand in the yard.
A fabulous O Gauge layout of the ECML between London King's Cross and Leeds.
Well worth a visit.
October 2019
43309 + 43315 passing through Doncaster with 1W20 1400hrs LNER service from London Kings Cross to Aberdeen.
© Finbarr O'Neill
47847 and 47843 'Vulcan' pass Doncaster with 4D31 the 1612 Drax to Doncaster Down Decoy on 14th April 2015.
19.11.2022.
CDT 636 was Doncaster's last trolleybus when it operated a service to Beckett Road in December 1963.
Trolleybus Museum - Sandtoft.
When I took these pictures in May 1974, Doncaster Corporation Transport had just been absorbed into the new South Yorkshire PTE. Thus their distinctive livery would soon be history.
This handsome 1962 Roe bodied PD3 had already been repainted into the new PTE livery. This was the first bus I saw in this colour scheme.
Cusworth Hall is an 18th-century Grade I listed country house in Cusworth, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire in the north of England. Set in the landscaped parklands of Cusworth Park, Cusworth Hall is a good example of a Georgian country house. It is now a country house museum.
The house is constructed of ashlar with slate roofs. The rectangular 6 x 5 bay plan main block is linked to 5 x 2 bay service wings.
The Wrightson family had held the lordship of Cusworth since 1669.
The present house was built in 1740–1745 by George Platt for William Wrightson to replace a previous house and was further altered in 1749–1753 by James Paine. On William's death in 1760 the property passed to his daughter Isabella, who had married John Battie, who took the additional name of Wrightson in 1766. He employed the landscape designer Richard Woods to remodel the park. Woods was one of a group of respected landscape designers working across the country during the 18th century and Cusworth was one of his most important commissions in South Yorkshire, another being at Cannon Hall. Woods created a park of 250 acres with a hanging and a serpentine river consisting of three lakes embellished with decorative features such as the Rock Arch and the Cascade.
The estate afterwards passed to John and Isabella's son, William Wrightson (1752–1827), who was the MP for Aylesbury from 1784 to 1790 and High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1819–1820. He was succeeded by his son William Battie-Wrightson (1789–1879), who at various times was MP for East Retford, Kingston upon Hull and Northallerton. He died childless and Cusworth Hall passed to his brother Richard Heber Wrightson, who died in 1891.
The property was then inherited by his nephew William Henry Thomas, who took the surname Battie-Wrightson by Royal Licence and died in 1903. He had married Lady Isabella Cecil, eldest daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Exeter. Between 1903 and 1909 Lady Isabella made further alterations to the house. She died in 1917, leaving an only son Robert Cecil Battie-Wrightson (1888–1952). On his death in 1952, the estate descended to his sister, a nurse who had married a Major Oswald Parker but later was variously known as Miss Maureen Pearse-Brown and as Mrs Pearce. She was obliged to sell the contents of Cusworth Hall in October 1952 to meet the death duties levied at Robert Cecil's death. She subsequently sold the hall to Doncaster Council.
Cusworth Estate Cusworth was first mentioned as ‘Cuzeuuorde’ in the domesday survey of 1086 but there has been a settlement here for centuries dating back to the Anglo-Saxon period. Many different families had held the lands and manor but they did not always live at Cusworth.
‘Old Hall’ A large house is first mentioned in 1327. Robert Wrightson bought the lands and manor of Cusworth in 1669 from Sir Christopher Wray. The first surviving map of Cusworth is that of Joseph Dickinson's 1719 plan which shows the hall and gardens covered only 1 acre with the orchards a further 2 acres. What is most significant at this time was the ‘Parke’ of some 25 acres. The ‘Old Hall’ was next to the walled gardens in the centre of Cusworth village. In 1726 the ‘Old Hall’ was expanded including altering the gardens between 1726 and 1735. This expanded the kitchen garden into the size and form we know today with the Bowling Green and Pavilion.
In the period 1740–1745 William Wrightson employed George Platt, a mason architect from Rotherham, to build a new hall – the current Cusworth Hall – high on a scarp slope on the Magnesian Limestone removing the Hall, and the family, from the village of Cusworth. The ‘Old Hall’ was largely demolished in the process, many components from the old building re-used in the new.
Cusworth Hall Cusworth Hall itself and its outbuildings are at the centre of the park enjoying ‘prospect’ over the town of Doncaster. The Grade I-listed eighteenth century hall was designed by George Platt in the Palladian style. Cusworth Hall is handsome, well proportioned, with wings consisting of a stable block and great kitchen. Later additions by James Paine include a chapel and library. It has decorative outbuildings including a Brew House, Stable Block and Lodge. In addition it has a decorative garden called Lady Isabella's Garden on the west side adjacent to the chapel. On its eastern flank the stable block and gardeners' bothy. Attached to the bothy is a decorative iron enclosure known as the Peacock Pen.
Cusworth Park Cusworth Park is an historic designed landscape with a Grade II listing in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens. It was designed and created by the nationally known landscape architect Richard Woods to ‘improve’ the park in the style made famous by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown now termed ‘The English Landscape Park’. Work started in 1761 laying out the ‘grounds and the serpentine river’.
The land forming the existing park is 60 acres (25 hectares) – 250,000m, and was part of the much larger parkland (250 acres) and estates (20,000 acres) of the Battie-Wrightson family who owned Cusworth Hall.
The walled garden The earliest description of the layout of the park and walled gardens is that shown on Joseph Dickinson's 1719 plan. In 1761 Richard Woods altered areas within the walled gardens. Together ‘woods’ Kitchen Garden and Green House Garden occupy the site of the orchard shown on Dickinson's plan.
The purchase of bricks from Epworth for the construction of the walled gardens is recorded in the New House Accounts.
The garden was a compartmentalised space, however with focus on domestic production in some sections, exotics in another, an orchard, and formal flower gardens in the rest.
The kitchen gardens included pine pits (pineapple house), later to become stove houses and mushroom houses.
The Entrance Terrace (Upper Terrace) Old plans show a narrow walled enclosure or ‘entrance terrace' running east–west. The walls of this enclosure may well have been of stone or stoned faced and still, in part survives. To the south are the main components of the walled garden. Access from the terrace down to the bowling green is via a flight of stone steps.
Bowling Green Described on Richard Woods plans of 1760. This is a roughly square, walled enclosure where the bowling green is surrounded by an earthed banked terraced walk. The enclosure is defined by a brick wall, which was lowered along its western side to give a view over to the Green House Garden.
Summerhouse / Bowling Pavilion Built 1726. The summerhouse is the main architectural feature of the walled garden. It is of two stories with the upper storey accessed from the Bowling Green. There is an impression of more carefully shaped quoins at the corners but it is probable that the walls were originally rendered and lime washed externally. There are windows giving views across the Bowling Green from the upper chamber and across the Flower Garden from the lower chamber.
During restoration in the 1990s the upper chamber was decorated with Trompe-l'œil. showing views of imagined walled gardens at Cusworth.
Flower Garden The garden was designed to be viewed principally from the higher position of the bowling green. It was subdivided by cross-paths and furnished with four formal beds. Although one of the smallest compartments, the flower garden was the most highly ornamental and tightly designed. It would have created a formal, colourful architectural space contrasting with the simplicity of the bowling green
Hall Garden The function of the Hall Garden is not clear but appears to have been an extension of the decorative scheme of the flower garden. The Hall Garden has a perimeter walk and is then divided into two plots by a further, central path.
Peach House This whitewash wall indicates the position of the peach house.
Melon Pits Melon pits ran east–west along this area.
Orchard Through the 18th century the orchard was not enclosed and remained open until the late 19th century. It was double its current size extending back up to Cusworth Lane until the northern half was sold off for housing in the 1960s.
Kitchen Garden (No longer existing) The west, south and this east boundary wall(s) of the garden still exist but the plot of land was sold off for housing in the 1960s. There was an access gate between the Hall Garden and the kitchen garden (this can be seen bricked up in the northwest corner). This garden had a perimeter walk and was planted with trees arranged in parallel lines orchestrated around a small building at the northern end of the compartment.
Green House Garden (No longer existing) The kitchen garden represents the greater part of the area occupied by the original orchard shown on Dickinson's 1719 plan. The remaining area was described on Woods’ plan as the Green House Garden and was shown divided into two unequal parts. Both parts of the garden appear to have been planted with trees, probably fruit trees. A building abuts the bowling green in roughly the position as the one shown on the Dickinson plan but there is an additional building, roughly square in plan, to the northwest corner of the enclosure. This was probably the Dovecote for which Wrightson paid £9 15s 0d in 1736.
The west boundary wall still exists and this low (east) wall that runs along the length of the bowling green but the plot of land was sold off for housing in the 1960s.
In 1961 Doncaster Rural District Council purchased Cusworth Hall and the adjoining parkland from the Battie-Wrightson family. The Council undertook an initial restoration of the grounds and also recreated what is now the tearooms within the former stable block. The former reception rooms and spacious galleries now house the Museum of South Yorkshire life, officially opened on 30 September 1967.
Cusworth Hall and Park underwent an extensive £7.5 million renovation between 2002 and 2005, involving essential conservation repairs to the Hall and extensive restoration of the landscape gardens. Within the hall external repairs to the stonework and roof were undertaken to ensure that the exterior was watertight, whilst internal works upgraded internal services and enabled new displays to be installed.
The restoration of the designed landscape have been greatly influenced by a comprehensive analysis of available archive material, among which are the original written memoranda and sketches produced by Richard Woods for his site forman Thomas Coalie. An integrated archaeological programme also formed a key aspect of the restorations, recording in detail landscape features such as the Rock Arch, Cascade, and Bridge. This restoration has not 'recreated' the 18th century scheme, although elements are still incorporated within a 'living' amenity garden that is now thriving as a result of the recent work undertaken in partnership with the Friends of Cusworth Park.
The Hall reopened to the public on 23 May 2007 and the new displays document the history of South Yorkshire and it is a valued resource for local residents, students and school groups alike.
Cusworth Hall Museum and Park is the venue for a varied program of seasonal exhibitions, events and activities linked to the history of the area. including Country Fairs, vintage vehicle rallies, historic re-enactments, wildlife sessions and a range of seasonally themed events. A free, weekly, 5 km parkrun takes place every Saturday at 9 am in the grounds of Cusworth Hall. The first event was held on Saturday 5 October 2019 and was hosted by the staff at Cusworth in collaboration with the local community.
Additionally, Doncaster Museums' Education Service offers a range of learning sessions to schools and educational establishments. Specialist and experienced Education Officers deliver learning workshops to schools across a broad range of topics as well as out-of-school-hours activities for families and local communities.
Doncaster’s market can trace its origins right back to the Roman times when the local population established a vicus outside the walls of the Roman fort to trade with the garrison stationed there. Today’s market is on the very same spot and has benefitted from Doncaster being on the Great North Road through the centuries.
43251 / 43320 passing Doncaster with the only Mk III set to be painted in East Coast livery on 1S28 18:00 London Kings Cross - Edinburgh on 21/07/14.
Class 40 40031 makes a fine sight as it passes Doncaster depot with a parcels train 18/09/1978.
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Doncaster is a fascinating blend of historical influence, industrial legacy, and modern cultural vibrancy. Located in South Yorkshire in the north of England along the scenic River Don, the city’s history stretches back to Roman times when it was known as Danum, a strategic fortification built to monitor important routes during the Roman occupation .
Over the centuries, Doncaster evolved from its early military origins into a pivotal industrial town. Its evolution was closely intertwined with the expansion of the railway network and the growth of horse racing traditions—both of which helped define its modern character. The city is home to iconic landmarks such as the Doncaster Racecourse, renowned for hosting the prestigious St Leger Festival, and historical sites like St George’s Minster and Cusworth Hall that stand as reminders of its rich architectural and cultural heritage.
In recent years, Doncaster has embraced its multifaceted identity by blending the old with the new. Officially conferred city status in November 2022 as part of a royal celebration, it now serves not only as a reminder of aristocratic and industrial traditions but also as a dynamic centre for arts, retail, and community events. Modern attractions and a thriving events calendar ensure that visitors and residents alike can experience its evolving story—from its industrial past to its present-day status as a lively, multicultural urban hub.
Little Plough pub, West Laith Gate, Doncaster. Well preserved exterior with faience cladding and still proclaiming its link to Hewitt's Grimsby Ales - a brewery that closed in 1968.