STAINFORTH: Doncaster Parish #41 of 43
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2024
- Three to go in Doncaster and all of them are in the North Eastern corner of the borough. To be fair, they're all different, none of the three can honestly say they are alike, not 100% anyway and you'll see why when we've been around all three. We're beginning the final push in Doncaster with a parish that has town status, and one that was once just seven households ground around a tiny piece of land near the River Don.
There's a lot more to it now, and once again we've hit a mining area, one of those parts of South Yorkshire that saw a huge boom in population when the mines were a thing in these parts. Arguably, you'd say that Hatfield Main Colliery that provided this town with the mining jobs which like so many other places were inevitably lost, did very well compared some of the others in Doncaster. This one lasted until 2015, barring a brief closure beforehand.
It doesn't produce coal anymore though and although the winding wheels and the equipment is still there, they stand empty and alone in a vast wilderness that's only punctuated by the occasional roar of a lorry as it makes it's way to the M18 on a brand new link road. There's much more to this town though than mining.
Check out the story behind the main church, vey unique in it's creation and backstory. There's a canal linked to the Sheffield Navigation, a market which still exists despite its very existence being threatened by the ever important market in Bawtry historically attracting more people. There are memorials all over the place, a fantastic war memorial in the grounds of the cemetery and a heap of shops which despite it all still operate as shops should. The reputation this place gets really doesn't ring true at times.
All of this, and that colliery still stands, for now. It will hopefully stay standing and provide generations to come with a lasting memory of what made this town what it is. This is the amazing town of STAINFORTH.
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It's a fabulous little village. There is a true community that deserves to regain it's self respect. Yes, it's depressed, yes it has many problems. It has suffered greatly. There is good and bad everywhere and it's magnified in such a small, compact community. The same for many in the locale. But at its heart, the people are generous in many ways.
I was born in the Pit Club in 1947. My dad was Clarrie Brooke. What a fabulous place to live and grow up. Savoy cinema, throwing bicycle inner tubes over lampposts, Poggys barbers where you got a clout if you moved despite a bleeding ear.
Did me no harm whatsoever..Happy days.
Hi Andy .. Well done my Friend . Tommy Yorkshire ✨🙂👍✨ I'm From Stainforth but I also live in Scawthorpe and |Thorne . Keep them coming Andy 🙂👍
Thanks! Sure will :D
I really appreciate this video. I grew up in Stainforth on East Lane before I went abroad and man has it changed since I was there 45 years ago. Thank you
Yes lots can change in 45 years
Played on large square where my Nan and grandad lived both buried in the cemetery now
Used to do deliveries in Stainforth in the early 90s. Due to driving a set route once a week it seems that I missed a lot of the places you visited and I must say you make it look a lot nicer than I remembered it :)
I think it's improved a bit in recent years, still gets a bad rep though mainly
I was brought up in Stainforth I lived on Queens Crescent in the 80/90s it's not there no more the house on kingway where all knocked down about 10 years ago
i'm amazed you never got run over by some smackhead on a quad , love your vids btw
Fun fact, I did actually see some quad bikers around, so I guess this is almost accurate 😄
A good framework to Stainforth, possibly it could have been a little more accurate. For example, Hatfield and Stainforth Railway Station is wholly in Stainforth, The view was not of the Stainforth and Keadby Canal but of the original River Dun Navigation and afterwards The Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. The Stainforth and Keadby Canal did not start till about 1 mile further East. The Church at Stainforth is, possibly the 4th Church, the other 2 being on Barnby Dun Road. Bramwith Hall is a Listed Building built in the 1700's. Stainforth is also where the only Doncaster born Nobel Prize Winner, George Porter was born at Ash House, Silver Street which you could have walked past. His early education was in Stainforth. Finally, The War Memorial you referred to in Stainforth Cemetery was built in 1919 and was the 1st Public War Memorial built in the Doncaster Area that took the form of a piece of Statuary rather than an obelisk or cross. As you say Stainforth has a lot of history!
Good info there, thanks Peter. Yes, the railway station is wholly within Stainforth - the video doesn't say it's split between the two, I just say it's on the boundary, but you are indeed right, that it is entirely a Stainforth feature
The new kings park housing estate. These have replaced the old pit houses which were kingsway Duke street Lord street and Queens crescent. I lived in Duke street for 19 years. I believe the pit houses changed to council in the 80s. Love the videos 👍🏼
Thanks! I'll use that bit of info :D
I liked on queen's Crescent
The central was shut down cos a friend of mine couldn’t run it due to covid and being closed for so long but it’s meant to be opening again soon.
Ah good, be a shame to see it stay shut
Correct pal and he's asked my older brother who used DJ to do it again....he did every pub in that village thru eighties and nineties....think my dad still does..... Cole family.... Ask people know them....be nice see it open again...lds local lads said they would back it and go ... only problem is he wants the DJ to have fu equipment... He doesn't do it anymore which shame but he's seriously considering it.. .hope see you all soon in the new central for a pint....bring back those memories.....the pubs he did was...shades....ridings....central....old club ... Waverley.... fox... Harvester.....new Inn....bank holidays....see you their folks
The mine mast actually has listed status and is not getting demolished.
Ahhh good to hear! I read somewhere it was looking at being turned into a heritage centre but that article was dated 2015
@@TheVillageIdiot yea ime sure theirs now planning for something like that / museum , I think their was a funding issue years back.
Stainforth is also the birthplace of the new initial mental health response unit by Unlock Your You.
Thanks for that Lisa :D
Dodgy place to live
I went there once just to have a look at the ex colliery mainly, as i had read about it online.