IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Colonnades, Pells Close, DONCASTER, DN1 3EG
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to The Colonnades, Pells Close, DN1 3EG by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (408 Images Found)
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The Colonnades Cleveland Street, Doncaster
One of three entrances to this shopping mall. The 'keep left' signs probably date from the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 23 Sep 2023
0.01 miles
2
The Saracens, Doncaster
On Cleveland Street.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 19 Sep 2022
0.02 miles
3
Duke Street, Doncaster
With newly added cycle lane.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 23 Sep 2023
0.03 miles
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Sign for the Lord Nelson, Doncaster
See Image] for context.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 19 Sep 2022
0.03 miles
5
The Lord Nelson, Doncaster
On Printing Office Street.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 19 Sep 2022
0.03 miles
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The Lord Nelson, Cleveland Street, Doncaster
According to pubshistory.com there has been a pub of this name her since 1881 (or earlier), though the present building looks more early 20th century. A local newspaper report says it became a lap-dancing club at one time, before reverting to a pub under its original name in 2016.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 23 Sep 2023
0.03 miles
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Colonnades House, Doncaster
Office block on Duke Street.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 19 Sep 2022
0.04 miles
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Former Priory Place Methodist Church, Doncaster
Closed in February 2022.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 19 Sep 2022
0.04 miles
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Former Priory Place Methodist Church, Doncaster
This building is situated in Printing Office Street DN1 1TR and dates from 1832. It was one of twenty Methodist Churches in the Doncaster Methodist Circuit, but dwindling congregations forced it to close in February 2022.
Image: © David Hillas
Taken: 2 May 2022
0.05 miles
10
Like Grandfather's axe?
In the late 1950s, Doncaster Corporation decided to get new life out of a number of its older trolleybuses, and embarked on a program of fitting new bodies. Soon after, the decision was taken to abandon the trolleybus system, which finally closed at the end of 1963.
Rather than scrap the relatively new bodies, a number were re-used and mounted on new diesel bus chassis, of Leyland and Daimler manufacture. This is one of the latter, delivered in 1962, and was one of the last to survive. The tell-tale indication that this is indeed a former trolleybus body is the presence of an unusually thick pillar between the first and second windows of the upper deck. This is where the cables carrying the traction current from the trolley poles would have been located.
The final twist in the 'Grandfather's axe' tale is that although still wearing Doncaster Corporation livery, the presence of a four-digit fleet number and a route number show that this was taken when the bus had passed into the ownership of the South Yorkshire PTE (Passenger Transport Executive). As far as I am aware, none of the former trolleybus bodies were ever painted in the tan and cream livery of the PTE.
This is one of a series of views featuring buses in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=2114547&displayclass=slide
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 27 Sep 1976
0.05 miles