IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
College Road, DONCASTER, DN1 3JL
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to College Road, DN1 3JL 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.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (273 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
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Civic Quarter car park, Doncaster
To encourage visitors to the city centre to park and walk. Some form of construction is going on immediately this side (west) of it.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 23 Sep 2023
0.04 miles
3
Waterdale Shopping Centre
Mostly gone!
Image: © Oscar Taylor
Taken: 21 Jul 2023
0.04 miles
4
The former Cleveland Arms, Doncaster
According to closedpubs.co.uk this pub on the corner of Duke Street and CLeveland Street was the Cleveland Arms in the 1850s, rebuilt in 1938 and more recently known as the Emporium before closure.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 23 Sep 2023
0.04 miles
5
Duke Street, Doncaster
With newly added cycle lane.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 23 Sep 2023
0.06 miles
6
Cleveland Street approach to Trafford Way (1980)
This was the entrance/exit to the South Bus Station but this has since closed
Image: © Graham Hogg
Taken: Unknown
0.06 miles
7
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
0.07 miles
8
Doncaster Magistrates Court
The Grey Building that is Doncaster Magistrates Court.
Image: © Jon Clark
Taken: 8 Jul 2003
0.09 miles
9
The Saracens, Doncaster
On Cleveland Street.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 19 Sep 2022
0.09 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
0.09 miles