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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: ColinDouglasHandshake on January 17, 2022, 02:21:03 pm
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As an exile, i don't often spend much time back in Donny.
My mum moved away from Scawsby about 8 years ago nearer to me in the midlands so i only go to Donny now for the footy, to visit my sister in Kirk Sandall and to see a mate in Scawsby and so i don't really know what changes are happening in the town and how it is perceived by locals now.
I've been away for 20 years but used to go round town drinking friday / Saturday nights etc up until about 2010, before i felt too old :lol:
The one thing i have noticed by reading the DFP online is that the instances of violence / crime etc seem to be frequent. When i compare it to my local rag for a similarly sized large town, i don't see half of the bad headlines in my local area than i do the DFP.
I know the press like to skew things obviously but if it isn't drugs gangs with guns in Cantley then it's a cyclist getting attacked with a machete on Church Way in today's DFP.
Maybe it is also an age thing? Growing up around Donny, i saw some bad stuff and got involved with some bad stuff but it was just sort of normalized and maybe when you are taken out of that environment, that stuff still happens but you are not involved or don't experience it.
I must admit, there are some areas of Donny which i went to a lot when i was younger where i would not feel particularly safe now, and i don't really feel that in any area of my nearest town.
Do any of you think that Donny or your local area is more dangerous than it used to be or that it is the same as it's ever been? Do you feel safe in Doncaster in general ? Is there anything that has changed for the worse / better?
I must admit that i prefer Donny to bigger cities.
Anyway, comment if you wish. If not, please ignore although i am still half expecting the 'what a pointless thread' accusation. ;)
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As an exile, i don't often spend much time back in Donny.
My mum moved away from Scawsby about 8 years ago nearer to me in the midlands so i only go to Donny now for the footy, to visit my sister in Kirk Sandall and to see a mate in Scawsby and so i don't really know what changes are happening in the town and how it is perceived by locals now.
I've been away for 20 years but used to go round town drinking friday / Saturday nights etc up until about 2010, before i felt too old :lol:
The one thing i have noticed by reading the DFP online is that the instances of violence / crime etc seem to be frequent. When i compare it to my local rag for a similarly sized large town, i don't see half of the bad headlines in my local area than i do the DFP.
I know the press like to skew things obviously but if it isn't drugs gangs with guns in Cantley then it's a cyclist getting attacked with a machete on Church Way in today's DFP.
Maybe it is also an age thing? Growing up around Donny, i saw some bad stuff and got involved with some bad stuff but it was just sort of normalized and maybe when you are taken out of that environment, that stuff still happens but you are not involved or don't experience it.
Do any of you think that Donny or your local area is more dangerous than it used to be or that it is the same as it's ever been? Do you feel safe in Doncaster in general ? Is there anything that has changed for the worse / better?
I must admit that i prefer Donny to bigger cities. Sheffield i have always hated.
i live in Lichfield and was out locally one mate brought along a lad who was shouting his mouth off, overly unwanted flirting with waitresses, bar staff, swearing etc, generally making a scene of himself all night. Lichfield is so safe we didn't get any trouble apart from some withering looks, but for the first time since I moved away from Donny a bit of self-preservation instinct kicked in and I had an urge to get myself away from the lad for my own sake. Its likely in Donny he would have attracted attention and got his head kicked in and likely mine (and I've been away 13 years!) - made me remember how different the rules were.
Never been in a scrap in Donny town centre but certainly seen it happen and several times been in the situation where something could have started through no fault of my own if i didn't actively avoid it.
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Thanks Keyser Soze. Scraps in Donny were a staple of our weekend in the 90's early 00's :lol:
Remember us waiting for mates outside what was a kebab shop on the corner of sunny bar before you go into that ginnel bit where the Old George was after leaving Visage nightclub and some lads just randomly whipping off their belts and laying into us. :lol:
It is amazing though what you don't feel when you've had a skinful. :blink:
Feels like a lot of things though could be sorted out back then a lot easier before fights occurred.
Silver Street in particular at chucking out time was like fight club!
Weird because we also used to go round Wakefield, Cleethorpes and sometimes Hull and not really have any bother.
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Not sure of the figures now but around 40 years ago there were an estimated 30,000 pub goers in Donny town centre on a Saturday night and a handful of Coppers on duty. It's ironic that there were about 5,000 footy fans at Belle Vue games and scores of Coppers. What makes it more strange was that many of the 30,000 town dwellers were temporarily insane through alcohol abuse!
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Not sure of the figures now but around 40 years ago there were an estimated 30,000 pub goers in Donny town centre on a Saturday night and a handful of Coppers on duty. It's ironic that there were about 5,000 footy fans at Belle Vue games and scores of Coppers. Maybe the reason was that many of the 30,000 town dwellers were temporarily insane through alcohol abuse!
In the 90's and early 00's town was heaving at the weekend. Like an industrial sized stag do. On summers evenings it felt like you were in Ibiza or somewhere such was the actually buzz and energy on the streets, and i'd regularly meet people who had come to Donny from all over. Worksop, Retford, Barnsley, Gainsborough, Selby and literally everywhere within a 50 mile radius. Donny had a reputation and was known as the best night out for miles around. Utter carnage. Not sure what it is like now but those memories of town every weekend growing up will stay forever. Well, those i can remember. ;)
Biscuit Billy's enjoying a 12 and 2 and not being able to actually move. Great days.
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I also spent many a weekend around town drinking from mid 80's until I got too old, never really got into any bother or felt unsafe.
Don't live in Donny now but on the odd occasion I return the main thing that strikes me is the empty streets, hardly a single person about outside of the shopping centre/market areas.
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Not sure of the figures now but around 40 years ago there were an estimated 30,000 pub goers in Donny town centre on a Saturday night and a handful of Coppers on duty. It's ironic that there were about 5,000 footy fans at Belle Vue games and scores of Coppers. Maybe the reason was that many of the 30,000 town dwellers were temporarily insane through alcohol abuse!
In the 90's and early 00's town was heaving at the weekend. Like an industrial sized stag do. On summers evenings it felt like you were in Ibiza or somewhere such was the actually buzz and energy on the streets, and i'd regularly meet people who had come to Donny from all over. Worksop, Retford, Barnsley, Gainsborough, Selby and literally everywhere within a 50 mile radius. Donny had a reputation and was known as the best night out for miles around. Utter carnage. Not sure what it is like now but those memories of town every weekend growing up will stay forever. Well, those i can remember. ;)
Biscuit Billy's enjoying a 12 and 2 and not being able to actually move. Great days.
I'm from Retford originally and there used to be a mad bus (The Nightlife Express i think it was called :laugh: ) that set off for Visage/Karisma early evening on a Saturday night and came back late on. I had my stag do back in Donny in 2011 after I'd moved away and the lads from Lichfield/Birmingham were staggered at Silver Street and the sheer quantity of people going bar to bar.
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I know. The bar hopping was mad. Literally get bought a drink and before you knew it mates were off to another pub! It honestly scares me to think how many units of alcohol we drank on a night out.
Today i can drink 4 bottles of Whitstable Bay and feel i've overdone it. :lol: Those days i'd have about 3/4 pints in the snooker club before hitting the pubs. Then about 10 pubs and nightclub or walkabout.
Many time though i'd walk home to Scawsby over the old North Bridge on my own after not being able to get a taxi at 3am or getting parted from mates (no mobile phones then) and come across some real shifty folk but never feel in danger.
Wouldn't do that now.
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Are these pubs still going?
What we used to call 'The Swinger' at Woodlands?
Tut n Shive in town.
Adam and Eve in Scawthorpe?
Newton at Sprotbrough?
Grove Inn on York Road?
All frequented by me in the past as well as usual pubs which i know are still there like The Mallard and Sun Inn in Scawsby, Pickburn Arms and the Boat Inn at Sprotbrough.
I know the Roman Ridge got pulled down.
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Adam and Eve in Scawthorpe is now a Herons freezer shop and Weldricks chemist.
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The Newton and Grove inn, and Tut'n' Shive are still going.
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Adam and Eve in Scawthorpe is now a Herons freezer shop and Weldricks chemist.
When did that close then BB?
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Adam and Eve in Scawthorpe is now a Herons freezer shop and Weldricks chemist.
When did that close then BB?
Around about 2018, I think.
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Adam and Eve in Scawthorpe is now a Herons freezer shop and Weldricks chemist.
When did that close then BB?
Around about 2018, I think.
Cheers BB.
Is Bay Horse next to Bentley library still there?
Should rename this thread to 'pubs in Donny - old and new' :lol:
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Yes, Bay Horse is still there. Druids, and the Railway Tavern, and the Good Companions are no longer pubs and the drum was demolished a few years ago.
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Yes, Bay Horse is still there. Druids, and the Railway Tavern, and the Good Companions are no longer pubs and the drum was demolished a few years ago.
Ah cheers for that BB.
Was the drum that pub just before the bend as you come round towards the railway station at Bentley from Watch House Lane?
Used to play for Good Comps. Sad to hear it is no longer there. Heard of Druids but forgot where it is and can't recall Raliway Tavern.
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Hexthorpe, Edlo, Balby, Highfields, Carcroft, Woodlands, Hyde Park. Are they any better than 10 -15 years ago? :(
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Up to press this season our forwards havn't been.
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Roman Ridge in Scawsby another pub no longer with us.
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Yes, Bay Horse is still there. Druids, and the Railway Tavern, and the Good Companions are no longer pubs and the drum was demolished a few years ago.
Ah cheers for that BB.
Was the drum that pub just before the bend as you come round towards the railway station at Bentley from Watch House Lane?
Used to play for Good Comps. Sad to hear it is no longer there. Heard of Druids but forgot where it is and can't recall Raliway Tavern.
Yes, that's where the Drum was. It was demolished around 2014 and a supermarket was built in its place.
The Druids was on Bentley High Street, on the right-hand side as you entered the shopping area going North.
The Railway Tavern was near Bentley railway crossing on Cooke Street.
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Ah yes. Recall the Railway Tavern now you've said where it was. Druids rings a bell but still cannot picture it.
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Hexthorpe, Edlo, Balby, Highfields, Carcroft, Woodlands, Hyde Park. Are they any better than 10 -15 years ago? :(
I would say all of these areas have deteriorated over the last 20 years, other than Carcroft which I don't know much about tbh.
Balby in particular where I grew up and spent a large proportion of my life is on the whole not a particular pleasant place to live anymore. There are still some nice parts of it but few and far between.
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Yes, Bay Horse is still there. Druids, and the Railway Tavern, and the Good Companions are no longer pubs and the drum was demolished a few years ago.
Ah cheers for that BB.
Was the drum that pub just before the bend as you come round towards the railway station at Bentley from Watch House Lane?
Used to play for Good Comps. Sad to hear it is no longer there. Heard of Druids but forgot where it is and can't recall Raliway Tavern.
Yes, that's where the Drum was. It was demolished around 2014 and a supermarket was built in its place.
The Druids was on Bentley High Street, on the right-hand side as you entered the shopping area going North.
The Railway Tavern was near Bentley railway crossing on Cooke Street.
My uncle used to have the Railway Tavern
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Aaaah The Drum, had my 1st pint as a 14 year old in there
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Yes, Bay Horse is still there. Druids, and the Railway Tavern, and the Good Companions are no longer pubs and the drum was demolished a few years ago.
Ah cheers for that BB.
Was the drum that pub just before the bend as you come round towards the railway station at Bentley from Watch House Lane?
Used to play for Good Comps. Sad to hear it is no longer there. Heard of Druids but forgot where it is and can't recall Raliway Tavern.
Yes, that's where the Drum was. It was demolished around 2014 and a supermarket was built in its place.
The Druids was on Bentley High Street, on the right-hand side as you entered the shopping area going North.
The Railway Tavern was near Bentley railway crossing on Cooke Street.
I worked at Wood’s Supermarket warehouse on Cooke Street on a YTS back int’ 80s.
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My mates dad owned and ran Richards hairdressers on the main road in Bentley for donkeys years. I also had my second tattoo done at the tattoo place t'other side of the hill in the 90's. Used to play tennis in the concrete courts in Bentley Park as a yoof. Lots of memories of Bentley, despite living in Scawsby.
Must admit when i go back through Bentley, it appears to be a 'rougher' than i remember. No offence to anyone living there of course.
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I think the only time we ever played tennis was when Wimbledon was on. You couldn’t get a court for love nor money at Hecky Flatts for those 2 weeks a year
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Bentley has gone down hill big time, full of smackheads and thieving t**ts.
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Adam and Eve in Scawthorpe is now a Herons freezer shop and Weldricks chemist.
When did that close then BB?
Around about 2018, I think.
Cheers BB.
Is Bay Horse next to Bentley library still there?
Should rename this thread to 'pubs in Donny - old and new' :lol:
It is I live close to it ,it's a shit hole and should be pulled down,horrible place ,some woman was a sleep next to the steps not long ago and people just walking over her to get in when I was walking past.
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Adam and Eve in Scawthorpe is now a Herons freezer shop and Weldricks chemist.
When did that close then BB?
Around about 2018, I think.
Cheers BB.
Is Bay Horse next to Bentley library still there?
Should rename this thread to 'pubs in Donny - old and new' :lol:
It is I live close to it ,it's a shit hole and should be pulled down,horrible place ,some woman was a sleep next to the steps not long ago and people just walking over her to get in when I was walking past.
:lol:
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Is Donny Dangerous?
https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/crime/cyclist-suffers-serious-injuries-after-machete-attack-in-doncaster-town-centre-3530052
Yes.
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One of my mates is a plumber and he now refuses to work in Hexthorpe.
The last twice he worked there his van was broken into while he was in the customers house.
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One of my mates is a plumber and he now refuses to work in Hexthorpe.
The last twice he worked there his van was broken into while he was in the customers house.
Very wise. I refuse to set foot in Hexthorpe.
It is one of the few areas in Donny that is regularly in the wider media, and not for good things.
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King ‘ell can we focus on some positives?
Which ones of you lot contributed to this then?
https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/people/new-sex-study-names-doncaster-among-top-ten-kinkiest-places-in-the-uk-3530449
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The feeling of decline and areas becoming more dangerous isn't unique to Donny.
I've just spent a couple of weeks in Hounslow. Now that's an area that has declined. There is a website where ex-residents speak of an almost idyllic childhood in the years between the 50s and 80s. Plenty of good employment in factories like Firestone tyres and Gillette.
Now the high street is stripped of the old department stores and high street brands. It's listed as one of the top 20 most dangerous places in the country.
Generally, I think the country has been going down the shitter at least since the 70s. It's most keenly felt in areas with an industrial past.
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I remember the first time I saw a street beggar in Donny.
It was the early 80s. He was sat on the steps by the entrance to the Arndale centre in the tunnel from the North bus station. As a young lad I was quite shocked at the time.
I don't know if I'd just not noticed before or what but it was definitely a new thing to me.
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King ‘ell can we focus on some positives?
Which ones of you lot contributed to this then?
https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/people/new-sex-study-names-doncaster-among-top-ten-kinkiest-places-in-the-uk-3530449
Has Sproty still got his dungeon?
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I remember the first time I saw a street beggar in Donny.
It was the early 80s. He was sat on the steps by the entrance to the Arndale centre in the tunnel from the North bus station. As a young lad I was quite shocked at the time.
I don't know if I'd just not noticed before or what but it was definitely a new thing to me.
I was a teenager in the early 90's and i remember a couple of characters that used to frequent the town centre. Both were carribbean i think and one bloke was called Earl and he used to hang around the Frenchgate and outside. Nice bloke it seemed actually. Not sure whether he was homeless or not.
The other was a large lady who would call you over, make a 'come here' gesture with her index finger and say 'hey you...........come 'ere' and then point to her crotch!!
Always ran for the hills!
Some characters in Donny in those days.
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I am in Highfields now, just dropped off, what a depressing place
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The land that time forgot, I lived there, Coppice Rd, as an early teenager. The only good thing was our garden backed onto the woods and I spent hours roaming around there with our dog
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I used to go in Highfields WMC in mid to late 90''s as ex was from Woodlands.
Used to drive the loop around Highfields too just to see how many houses we could count that were boarded up lol.
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What’s your emergency is back on featuring Donny, not sure if they are repeats or new, the last series had machete attacks in Hexthorpe
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CDH, Earl lives in Bentley, see him from time to time, has mental health issues but totally harmless and friendly.
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CDH, Earl lives in Bentley, see him from time to time, has mental health issues but totally harmless and friendly.
Ah. Great! Great to hear he's still with us and doing ok. Thanks Andy.
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Can only speak for the parts I knew but some parts of it definitely sound ropey as hell now. Shame cos some of the outlying villages were decent even though people had little.
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Funny enough was out in Donny last weekend. Live in Cornwall and was up to see my lads, 22and19 I'm 50 we spent 6hrs in tut n shive and 1pt that turned into 4!! At biscuit Billie's. We had to carry youngest home. Had a great night.
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My mates dad owned and ran Richards hairdressers on the main road in Bentley for donkeys years. I also had my second tattoo done at the tattoo place t'other side of the hill in the 90's. Used to play tennis in the concrete courts in Bentley Park as a yoof. Lots of memories of Bentley, despite living in Scawsby.
Must admit when i go back through Bentley, it appears to be a 'rougher' than i remember. No offence to anyone living there of course.
CDH, the guy who did your tattoo is my brother; and he's still there in the same shop now.
He's made a fortune over the last 25 years or so, and he now tattoos more women than men.
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My mates dad owned and ran Richards hairdressers on the main road in Bentley for donkeys years. I also had my second tattoo done at the tattoo place t'other side of the hill in the 90's. Used to play tennis in the concrete courts in Bentley Park as a yoof. Lots of memories of Bentley, despite living in Scawsby.
Must admit when i go back through Bentley, it appears to be a 'rougher' than i remember. No offence to anyone living there of course.
CDH, the guy who did your tattoo is my brother; and he's still there in the same shop now.
He's made a fortune over the last 25 years or so, and he now tattoos more women than men.
Ah it's a small world Steve. I decided to go to his tattoo place as my first tattoo was this really decrepit old bloke who used to have a roll up in one trembling hand and the tattoo gun in his other. His place in the 90's was on that corner facing the big roundabout near where vets for pets / copley road end is now.
I escaped without infection from that bloke on the roundabout.
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My mates dad owned and ran Richards hairdressers on the main road in Bentley for donkeys years. I also had my second tattoo done at the tattoo place t'other side of the hill in the 90's. Used to play tennis in the concrete courts in Bentley Park as a yoof. Lots of memories of Bentley, despite living in Scawsby.
Must admit when i go back through Bentley, it appears to be a 'rougher' than i remember. No offence to anyone living there of course.
CDH, the guy who did your tattoo is my brother; and he's still there in the same shop now.
He's made a fortune over the last 25 years or so, and he now tattoos more women than men.
Ah it's a small world Steve. I decided to go to his tattoo place as my first tattoo was this really decrepit old bloke who used to have a roll up in one trembling hand and the tattoo gun in his other. His place in the 90's was on that corner facing the big roundabout near where vets for pets / copley road end is now.
I escaped without infection from that bloke on the roundabout.
Jims?
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My mates dad owned and ran Richards hairdressers on the main road in Bentley for donkeys years. I also had my second tattoo done at the tattoo place t'other side of the hill in the 90's. Used to play tennis in the concrete courts in Bentley Park as a yoof. Lots of memories of Bentley, despite living in Scawsby.
Must admit when i go back through Bentley, it appears to be a 'rougher' than i remember. No offence to anyone living there of course.
CDH, the guy who did your tattoo is my brother; and he's still there in the same shop now.
He's made a fortune over the last 25 years or so, and he now tattoos more women than men.
Ah it's a small world Steve. I decided to go to his tattoo place as my first tattoo was this really decrepit old bloke who used to have a roll up in one trembling hand and the tattoo gun in his other. His place in the 90's was on that corner facing the big roundabout near where vets for pets / copley road end is now.
I escaped without infection from that bloke on the roundabout.
Jims?
Haha yeah! That's the bloke. I had my first tattoo done there when i was about 16 i think and went in there and thought 'holy shit' but had it done anyway. Bloke had a bloody steady hand though. Well, one of them was. :lol:
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Apart from one that I had done in Scarborough all mine were done in Rosso. Gattison Lane I think. An old lad called Ossie I think. I seem to remember that if he’d had a pint or two they might not be as good as expected.
I ended up with 13, the dearest 12/6d or 62 pence these days.
It cost me over £900 to have five of them lasered off about 1999.
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My mates dad owned and ran Richards hairdressers on the main road in Bentley for donkeys years. I also had my second tattoo done at the tattoo place t'other side of the hill in the 90's. Used to play tennis in the concrete courts in Bentley Park as a yoof. Lots of memories of Bentley, despite living in Scawsby.
Must admit when i go back through Bentley, it appears to be a 'rougher' than i remember. No offence to anyone living there of course.
CDH, the guy who did your tattoo is my brother; and he's still there in the same shop now.
He's made a fortune over the last 25 years or so, and he now tattoos more women than men.
Ah it's a small world Steve. I decided to go to his tattoo place as my first tattoo was this really decrepit old bloke who used to have a roll up in one trembling hand and the tattoo gun in his other. His place in the 90's was on that corner facing the big roundabout near where vets for pets / copley road end is now.
I escaped without infection from that bloke on the roundabout.
Jims?
Haha yeah! That's the bloke. I had my first tattoo done there when i was about 16 i think and went in there and thought 'holy shit' but had it done anyway. Bloke had a bloody steady hand though. Well, one of them was. :lol:
Ha, so random CDH. I had my first tatt done by Jim and 2nd one done by the bloke in Bentley early 90s as well. I remember having to knock on Jims house door to get him to open the shop, he answered the door in slippers drinking one of those small bottles of beers. He smoked rollies and carried on drinking all the way through tattooing me as well, putting the world to rights as I sat there like a rabbit in the headlights with my mate. He kept inside the lines for most of it though so was quite impressed. I'd have been 17 and had a few sleepless nights after that thinking I must have caught all sorts. Was the first one in our 'group' to get a tatt though & thought I was the DBs. White Rose of Yorkshire, about the size of an old 50p on my upper arm that my daughter now calls my spiders web. Not sure he could work now though, more like having an operation with all the cleanliness.
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My mates dad owned and ran Richards hairdressers on the main road in Bentley for donkeys years. I also had my second tattoo done at the tattoo place t'other side of the hill in the 90's. Used to play tennis in the concrete courts in Bentley Park as a yoof. Lots of memories of Bentley, despite living in Scawsby.
Must admit when i go back through Bentley, it appears to be a 'rougher' than i remember. No offence to anyone living there of course.
CDH, the guy who did your tattoo is my brother; and he's still there in the same shop now.
He's made a fortune over the last 25 years or so, and he now tattoos more women than men.
Ah it's a small world Steve. I decided to go to his tattoo place as my first tattoo was this really decrepit old bloke who used to have a roll up in one trembling hand and the tattoo gun in his other. His place in the 90's was on that corner facing the big roundabout near where vets for pets / copley road end is now.
I escaped without infection from that bloke on the roundabout.
Jims?
Haha yeah! That's the bloke. I had my first tattoo done there when i was about 16 i think and went in there and thought 'holy shit' but had it done anyway. Bloke had a bloody steady hand though. Well, one of them was. :lol:
Ha, so random CDH. I had my first tatt done by Jim and 2nd one done by the bloke in Bentley early 90s as well. I remember having to knock on Jims house door to get him to open the shop, he answered the door in slippers drinking one of those small bottles of beers. He smoked rollies and carried on drinking all the way through tattooing me as well, putting the world to rights as I sat there like a rabbit in the headlights with my mate. He kept inside the lines for most of it though so was quite impressed. I'd have been 17 and had a few sleepless nights after that thinking I must have caught all sorts. Was the first one in our 'group' to get a tatt though & thought I was the DBs. White Rose of Yorkshire, about the size of an old 50p on my upper arm that my daughter now calls my spiders web. Not sure he could work now though, more like having an operation with all the cleanliness.
Haha great post! Yeah me the same. Thought i'd be a goner from some blood infection or summat after that but still here anyway. Can you just imagine him working these days!? He'd have no chance with all the health and safety etc and i'd have to say on this occasion - it is probably for the best lol.
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Jim Plaskitt was his name.
Sadly passed away many years ago.
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Apart from one that I had done in Scarborough all mine were done in Rosso. Gattison Lane I think. An old lad called Ossie I think. I seem to remember that if he’d had a pint or two they might not be as good as expected.
I ended up with 13, the dearest 12/6d or 62 pence these days.
It cost me over £900 to have five of them lasered off about 1999.
Yes, Idler; it was either Rosso or Thurnscoe in those days. I had mine done in Thurnscoe.
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Sorry to hear about Jim - had my first tatt there too about 1981. At the time he was considered to be one of the best around. The standard of tattooing has however come on leaps and bounds. Don’t know if it’s the artists, the equipment or both
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3 lads in Donny town centre stabbed last night , 17 and 18 year old died ,1 still in hospital and a 17 year old arrested, what the fcuk are people thinking when the do this, such a sad waste of a life ,feel for their families.
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3 lads in Donny town centre stabbed last night , 17 and 18 year old died ,1 still in hospital and a 17 year old arrested, what the fcuk are people thinking when the do this, such a sad waste of a life ,feel for their families.
Silver Street outside Biscuit Billys appatently
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Number 15 pub has been closed indefinitely as a result of the incident apparently.
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After last night the answer is probably yes
https://news.sky.com/story/teen-and-man-stabbed-to-death-in-doncaster-town-centre-12528020
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If we had some hard nosed coppers patrolling on foot "Come here son what's that down your trousers? a knife or maybe you just glad to see me?. now come with me for a minute for a stop and search!"
That's what used to happen before the 'WOKES got their lily livered way!
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Donny is a shit hole tbf by and large. Glad i moved away as soon as i could but still have lots of family ad friends in the town and surrounds. It will always be the place i was born, raised and became an adult but as soon as i was able to hoof it out of there i took that opportunity.
Gone massively downhill since i left. Other than a nice bus station.
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Absolutely tragic that two young lives were lost over probably nothing more than a pub argument .
I lost a mate several years ago who was punched from behind in a Barnsley town centre bar over absolutely nothing although he wasn't a young lad by any means .
It's absolutely tragic with their whole lives ahead of them that this is happening on our streets .
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I think there is some episodes from a tv series about Doncaster night life on YouTube from the 1990's.
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I think there is some episodes from a tv series about Doncaster night life on YouTube from the 1990's.
My era. Town in the 90's was just awesome.
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I think there is some episodes from a tv series about Doncaster night life on YouTube from the 1990's.
My era. Town in the 90's was just awesome.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6KoGgxqt3iQ&feature=youtu.be
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I think there is some episodes from a tv series about Doncaster night life on YouTube from the 1990's.
My era. Town in the 90's was just awesome.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6KoGgxqt3iQ&feature=youtu.be
Haha that's quality. Cheers man.
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If we had some hard nosed coppers patrolling on foot "Come here son what's that down your trousers? a knife or maybe you just glad to see me?. now come with me for a minute for a stop and search!"
That's what used to happen before the 'WOKES got their lily livered way!
Or just as likely the fact there are barely any coppers patrolling these days sadly.
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I know. Back in the 90's i knew our village bobbys in Scawsby by name, and they knew me. :lol: One even rode a cycle around and lived on our street.
Even though a lot of us were scallies, we still had respect for the local plods. These days i have no respect for the police whatsoever.
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Pc Patterson is what is needed who always at away games at rovers ,it only took him to look at you to think ok I will do as my told
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Pc Patterson is what is needed who always at away games at rovers ,it only took him to look at you to think ok I will do as my told
He used to stand in front of me at Belle Vue after he retired from the Police, never seen him at the KM/ EP, though
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I know. Back in the 90's i knew our village bobbys in Scawsby by name, and they knew me. :lol: One even rode a cycle around and lived on our street.
Even though a lot of us were scallies, we still had respect for the local plods. These days i have no respect for the police whatsoever.
Fair shout this. As a kid in scawsby back then they always came in to school and were about the area.
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Pc Patterson is what is needed who always at away games at rovers ,it only took him to look at you to think ok I will do as my told
He used to stand in front of me at Belle Vue after he retired from the Police, never seen him at the KM/ EP, though
I saw him walking to the Keepmoat a few years ago.
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There are parts of Donny that i wouldn't live in if i was given a free house. Hexthorpe, Balby, Hyde Park, Highfields being 4 that would be immediately dismissed as a risk to life IMO.
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There are parts of Donny that i wouldn't live in if i was given a free house. Hexthorpe, Balby, Hyde Park, Highfields being 4 that would be immediately dismissed as a risk to life IMO.
Sadly I think based on the (supposedly) gang related crimes in the last 12-18 months you can add a couple of other places to that (notable Cantley).
But then I think this is another case of people ignoring the size of Doncaster and dismissing it as another small northern town when it's anything but. I live in Stainforth, a village in peoples eyes yet home to over 6k people and a closed police station. Whilst Facebook isn't always a credible source for news our DN7 facebook group has regular reports of arson, burglary and assault. I'm sure there's a huge debate about respect, parental responsibilities and society in general but I think there's issues caused by lack of police on the beat.
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There are parts of Donny that i wouldn't live in if i was given a free house. Hexthorpe, Balby, Hyde Park, Highfields being 4 that would be immediately dismissed as a risk to life IMO.
Sadly I think based on the (supposedly) gang related crimes in the last 12-18 months you can add a couple of other places to that (notable Cantley).
But then I think this is another case of people ignoring the size of Doncaster and dismissing it as another small northern town when it's anything but. I live in Stainforth, a village in peoples eyes yet home to over 6k people and a closed police station. Whilst Facebook isn't always a credible source for news our DN7 facebook group has regular reports of arson, burglary and assault. I'm sure there's a huge debate about respect, parental responsibilities and society in general but I think there's issues caused by lack of police on the beat.
Stainforth has always had a bad reputation, it will never be any different, today we have wannabee gangsters that blight the village and don’t give a shit about anyone, in times past there was a good old fight and things forgotten until the next disagreement, I was born and bred in Stainforth, never lived anywhere else and wouldn’t want to either
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There are parts of Donny that i wouldn't live in if i was given a free house. Hexthorpe, Balby, Hyde Park, Highfields being 4 that would be immediately dismissed as a risk to life IMO.
Sadly I think based on the (supposedly) gang related crimes in the last 12-18 months you can add a couple of other places to that (notable Cantley).
But then I think this is another case of people ignoring the size of Doncaster and dismissing it as another small northern town when it's anything but. I live in Stainforth, a village in peoples eyes yet home to over 6k people and a closed police station. Whilst Facebook isn't always a credible source for news our DN7 facebook group has regular reports of arson, burglary and assault. I'm sure there's a huge debate about respect, parental responsibilities and society in general but I think there's issues caused by lack of police on the beat.
Stainforth has always had a bad reputation, it will never be any different, today we have wannabee gangsters that blight the village and don’t give a shit about anyone, in times past there was a good old fight and things forgotten until the next disagreement, I was born and bred in Stainforth, never lived anywhere else and wouldn’t want to either
My mums family lived on Princess Avenue next to second square. She was born and bred there. She was one of nine.
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There are parts of Donny that i wouldn't live in if i was given a free house. Hexthorpe, Balby, Hyde Park, Highfields being 4 that would be immediately dismissed as a risk to life IMO.
Sadly I think based on the (supposedly) gang related crimes in the last 12-18 months you can add a couple of other places to that (notable Cantley).
But then I think this is another case of people ignoring the size of Doncaster and dismissing it as another small northern town when it's anything but. I live in Stainforth, a village in peoples eyes yet home to over 6k people and a closed police station. Whilst Facebook isn't always a credible source for news our DN7 facebook group has regular reports of arson, burglary and assault. I'm sure there's a huge debate about respect, parental responsibilities and society in general but I think there's issues caused by lack of police on the beat.
Stainforth has always had a bad reputation, it will never be any different, today we have wannabee gangsters that blight the village and don’t give a shit about anyone, in times past there was a good old fight and things forgotten until the next disagreement, I was born and bred in Stainforth, never lived anywhere else and wouldn’t want to either
My mums family lived on Princess Avenue next to second square. She was born and bred there. She was one of nine.
Wouldn’t live on Princess Avenue for a gold pig, always something going off down there
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Pc Patterson is what is needed who always at away games at rovers ,it only took him to look at you to think ok I will do as my told
Walking down the road to the last game at the Goldstone, group of Donny likely lads in front - suddenly a huge booming voice from behind calls out one of their names - named hard lad meekly turns round to acknowledge he has been noted and is under the stern eye of …PC Patterson.
Could do with a few more of him these days.
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More firearms nonsense in donny the last few days. Reports of a shooting in shitehole balby as well as reports of shots being fired from cars in intake (shithole) and Cantley (never used to be a shitehole but now is). Par for the course in donny these days. In my town I will read about one firearms offence maybe in a whole year.
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Firearms discharge on edge of the homestead in Bentley a few days ago also, now that place is a real shithole.
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Very good friend of mine woke up this morning to find that both the cars had been robbed off his drive last night.
Edenthorpe.
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Very good friend of mine woke up this morning to find that both the cars had been robbed off his drive last night.
Edenthorpe.
Keyless start by any chance?
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Very good friend of mine woke up this morning to find that both the cars had been robbed off his drive last night.
Edenthorpe.
Keyless start by any chance?
Nope! Broke in despite the house doors being locked & lifted the keys.
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Very good friend of mine woke up this morning to find that both the cars had been robbed off his drive last night.
Edenthorpe.
Keyless start by any chance?
Nope! Broke in despite the house doors being locked & lifted the keys.
Always take the car keys to bed
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They might need a baseball bat by the bed too if the burglars came upstairs.
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They might need a baseball bat by the bed too if the burglars came upstairs.
IMO burglars should be fair game if they break in. You can do what you like to them until they perish. Would reduce burglar numbers.
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They might need a baseball bat by the bed too if the burglars came upstairs.
Well I have one in that very location, I also have two i fra red gates with the alarm in the bedroom and four CCTV cameras around the house, no one gets on my property without me knowing, and I’m prepared if they do
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They might need a baseball bat by the bed too if the burglars came upstairs.
Well I have one in that very location, I also have two i fra red gates with the alarm in the bedroom and four CCTV cameras around the house, no one gets on my property without me knowing, and I’m prepared if they do
I don't blame you Filo.
I have a bat also strategically placed for similar reasons. But due to being in Mindanao, Southern Philippines. Mine hits 5.56mm out the end of it.
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They might need a baseball bat by the bed too if the burglars came upstairs.
IMO burglars should be fair game if they break in. You can do what you like to them until they perish. Would reduce burglar numbers.
Totally agree - there will be do gooders somewhere with a problem with it
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I know. Back in the 90's i knew our village bobbys in Scawsby by name, and they knew me. :lol: One even rode a cycle around and lived on our street.
Even though a lot of us were scallies, we still had respect for the local plods. These days i have no respect for the police whatsoever.
Fair shout this. As a kid in scawsby back then they always came in to school and were about the area.
Aye PC Plumridge was always in Saltersgate. You'd have thought he had f**k all else to do!
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I know. Back in the 90's i knew our village bobbys in Scawsby by name, and they knew me. :lol: One even rode a cycle around and lived on our street.
Even though a lot of us were scallies, we still had respect for the local plods. These days i have no respect for the police whatsoever.
Fair shout this. As a kid in scawsby back then they always came in to school and were about the area.
Aye PC Plumridge was always in Saltersgate. You'd have thought he had f**k all else to do!
I went to Saltersgate and have to admit. Never heard of the bloke.
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They might need a baseball bat by the bed too if the burglars came upstairs.
Here is a little tip for you. If your gonna have a baseball bat next to your bed make sure you have a baseball too. If it gets messy after you would stand less chance of getting into trouble with the law.
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They might need a baseball bat by the bed too if the burglars came upstairs.
Here is a little tip for you. If your gonna have a baseball bat next to your bed make sure you have a baseball too. If it gets messy after you would stand less chance of getting into trouble with the law.
You speaking from experience Prez? :lol:
How badly did you rough up the fella? ;)
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They might need a baseball bat by the bed too if the burglars came upstairs.
Here is a little tip for you. If your gonna have a baseball bat next to your bed make sure you have a baseball too. If it gets messy after you would stand less chance of getting into trouble with the law.
Yep, I know that prez, which is why I wouldn’t have the bat there.
I was just suggesting to Filo that it might not be a good idea to take his keys upstairs with him.
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They might need a baseball bat by the bed too if the burglars came upstairs.
Fortunately no, it was just what I was told by a retired policeman. I keep my golf clubs in my bedroom just in case I need a 9 iron in the middle of the night.
Here is a little tip for you. If your gonna have a baseball bat next to your bed make sure you have a baseball too. If it gets messy after you would stand less chance of getting into trouble with the law.
You speaking from experience Prez? :lol:
How badly did you rough up the fella? ;)
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Very good friend of mine woke up this morning to find that both the cars had been robbed off his drive last night.
Edenthorpe.
Keyless start by any chance?
Nope! Broke in despite the house doors being locked & lifted the keys.
Always take the car keys to bed
I always leave mine downstairs where they can be easily found - last thing I want is to be woken from my much-needed beauty sleep by a tooled up t**t in my bedroom rummaging for my car keys.
It's only a lump of metal at the end of the day and there's a reason we have insurance.
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Very good friend of mine woke up this morning to find that both the cars had been robbed off his drive last night.
Edenthorpe.
Keyless start by any chance?
Nope! Broke in despite the house doors being locked & lifted the keys.
Always take the car keys to bed
I always leave mine downstairs where they can be easily found - last thing I want is to be woken from my much-needed beauty sleep by a tooled up t**t in my bedroom rummaging for my car keys.
It's only a lump of metal at the end of the day and there's a reason we have insurance.
I will know long before anyone gets to the bedroom that someone is in the house, thats where a early hours baseball practice comes useful
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According to the DFP, this last 12 months has been the most violent in the entire history of Donny, with 18 shootings, 13 stabbings, 7 rapes, and 4 murder investigations.
I don't know what the answer is. I'd love my grandkids to be somewhere else, but I think most towns and cities in the UK will be pretty much the same.
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My nearest large town is probably just Chesterfield and it is nowhere like on this scale the amount of violent crime and sexual assaults. This is why when i read the DFP, i am constantly shocked at the frequency of incidents.
All towns and cities have their issues but whenever i return to Donny, it is not the same feeling as when i left. It feels a bit more unsafe, oppressive and more unsavoury characters knocking about. When i visit Chesterfield for example or Buxton (admittedly a smaller town) i feel 100% safe.
The size of Donny though for a large town cannot be underestimated. I remember when i lived in Scawsby, it seemed to take an age even to drive to the other side of town, say Bessacarr yet when i visit Chesterfield, i'm out of the Peaks and through Chesterfield within a few minutes. Donny always feels traffic riddled and big. Maybe i'm now used to living around small towns and it is more noticable?
I'm a Donny lad born and raised until my mid 20's but i am so glad i moved away which is sad. The town looks like it has had lots of investment though so not sure what the issue is with the crime etc.
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They might need a baseball bat by the bed too if the burglars came upstairs.
Here is a little tip for you. If your gonna have a baseball bat next to your bed make sure you have a baseball too. If it gets messy after you would stand less chance of getting into trouble with the law.
I have a cricket bat at the side of my bed, in the spare bedroom there’s the rest of my cricket gear pads, gloves etc.
For those in the know it’s a G&M Maestro, it doesn’t look like much but it’s got a right “middle “ on it.
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My nearest large town is probably just Chesterfield and it is nowhere like on this scale the amount of violent crime and sexual assaults. This is why when i read the DFP, i am constantly shocked at the frequency of incidents.
All towns and cities have their issues but whenever i return to Donny, it is not the same feeling as when i left. It feels a bit more unsafe, oppressive and more unsavoury characters knocking about. When i visit Chesterfield for example or Buxton (admittedly a smaller town) i feel 100% safe.
The size of Donny though for a large town cannot be underestimated. I remember when i lived in Scawsby, it seemed to take an age even to drive to the other side of town, say Bessacarr yet when i visit Chesterfield, i'm out of the Peaks and through Chesterfield within a few minutes. Donny always feels traffic riddled and big. Maybe i'm now used to living around small towns and it is more noticable?
I'm a Donny lad born and raised until my mid 20's but i am so glad i moved away which is sad. The town looks like it has had lots of investment though so not sure what the issue is with the crime etc.
I think this thread is now starting to eat itself with posters outdoing each other for severity of cause.
Just remember that for all the figures quoted and even with the DFP trying to drum up some sales, the vast and i mean vast majority of folk in Donny have never had any of this Armageddon happen to them. Donny is a big town, it has City type crime and issues like any other big town or City but we are till talking small numbers in the greater scheme of things.
In my neck of the woods the biggest crime committed over the last 12 months was the Bin busters van forgetting to wash my neighbours bin and the green thumb bloke forgetting to do the back garden.
Let's get some perspective :)
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Not trying to outdo. Just discussing as per the thread title.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the thread or the contributors personal anecdotes which are their opinions. Just saying that things can be made to look and feel very dark and alien by a voracious press and media outlets.
It can also be assumed that something is worse than it is from first impressions. I was born and brought up in one of the biggest shitholes in Donny, to most people not familiar to the area it would of appeared to be hell on earth but from my experience it was never as bad as made out and usually quite a lot better, now-days people still consider it to be as bad or worse but i know people who live there and their experiences differ to the perceived norm.
Sometimes perception and actualities differ greatly.
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Well said Danum Don.
Form a queue to provide good news about Donny.
I’ll start:
All praise to the woman who goes out every week to pick up litter from around our way.
NEXT:
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Bravo to all the volunteers at St John the Evangelist Church in Balby who run the food bank. Impressive set up.
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A shout out to all the councillors regardless of the colours they wear.
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A shout out to all the councillors regardless of the colours they wear.
Are they not paid to do that though?
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A shout out to all the councillors regardless of the colours they wear.
Are they not paid to do that though?
Are they?
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I dunno. Which is why i'm asking.
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it's in here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Councillor#:~:text=Remuneration,-This%20section%20does&text=Most%20councillors%20are%20not%20full,out%2Dof%2Dpocket%20expenses.
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A shout out to all the councillors regardless of the colours they wear.
Are they not paid to do that though?
They get an allowance. In my local one in London they get about 10k a year. If you take up a post in cabinet you get some more on top. But no pension and really shit pay considering the responsibility and decision making power you have
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Man blasted in the head and chest in Clay Lane gun attack last night apparently.
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I wouldn’t believe everything you read in the Free Press!
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I know. Back in the 90's i knew our village bobbys in Scawsby by name, and they knew me. :lol: One even rode a cycle around and lived on our street.
Even though a lot of us were scallies, we still had respect for the local plods. These days i have no respect for the police whatsoever.
Fair shout this. As a kid in scawsby back then they always came in to school and were about the area.
Aye PC Plumridge was always in Saltersgate. You'd have thought he had f**k all else to do!
That's the guy, had a cracking tache from what I can remember.
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I wouldn’t believe everything you read in the Free Press!
So it didn't happen then?
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I wouldn’t believe everything you read in the Free Press!
This probably didn’t happen the
https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/crime/police-appeal-for-information-after-shots-fired-in-doncaster-3570605