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Now the Get Sorted Academy of Music, this former pub situated at the corner of Westgate and Wilfred Street was the Wellington Inn, and was built in 1903.

This is a facade view of The Cutlers' Arms on Westgate which was built in 1900, replacing an earlier house.

Opened in 1838 by the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, later part of the Midland Railway, this was the first station in Rotherham. It closed to passengers in 1952. The site was eventually redeveloped and was a sorting office when this image was taken from Westgate.

The long-closed, Alma Tavern, Westgate, Rotherham.

The Alma Tavern and the Cutlers Arms, side by side on Westgate on the southern edge of the town centre, both advertising ales that are no longer brewed. The Cutlers Arms is still trading but the Alma Tavern closed some years ago, and a fire in the roof in 2012 didn't improve its prospects of re-opening.

On Westgate. For alternative views, please see Image and Image

To Rotherham Council offices. The solid metal grey gates are to prevent flooding of the offices if the nearby River Don breaks its banks. For an alternative (2010) view, please see Image

The Alma Tavern, situated on Westgate, was closed and up for letting at the time of this photo on 18.10.2008, and seen sprouting a nice bit of facial topiary on its upper decks. Rebuilt in 1909, it was a Bentley's Rotherham Ales house.

Photo taken from Don Street. Left to right can be seen: The Don Navigation towpath. The single-span Corporation Bridge carries Main Street over the Don Navigation. Just beyond the bridge, the waterway splits into two. The left branch is the navigable Rotherham Cut and the right branch leads to a weir on the River Don. Between the two branches is Forge Island, currently home to TESCO. The multi-storey building is the Keppel Wharf office block. The spire of Rotherham Minster can just be seen on the right-hand skyline.

For a more complete photo of Corporation Bridge, please see Image The black-and-white bridge parapet seen in the bottom right-hand quadrant of the photo is a bit of a puzzle. The design suggests that this Don Street bridge was built in the canal-building era. However, I am unsure whether it was an access to a wharf to the west of the Don Navigation or actually part of the Don Navigation prior to 1838. In 1838, the Don Navigation was diverted to make way for the building of the railway from Sheffield to Rotherham Westgate Station. The Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_Westgate_railway_station provides a few clues but not a definitive answer.