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Title: I came across this on x.com
Post by: graingrover on September 26, 2024, 03:21:11 pm
1922 photo
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Post by: graingrover on September 26, 2024, 03:25:41 pm
you might need to scroll across the pic
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Post by: nice one rovers on September 26, 2024, 03:36:02 pm
Interesting. Cheers!
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Post by: PDX_Rover on September 26, 2024, 03:58:35 pm
Back in the early-70’s when I was a wee whippersnapper, my grandparents lived on Elmham Road in Cantley. There was so much less traffic on the roads that on match days you could hear the crowd, and also the prop engines of the planes taking gliders up. Could also see the floodlights from the upstairs back windows.


Funny what memories a single photo can evoke.
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Post by: Silkscarf on September 26, 2024, 04:21:37 pm
Great pic. Does it say ‘Charlesworth for Ford’ or similar on popside roof?

Some of the rear of the Rosso banking is still there behind ASDA.
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Post by: Drover on September 26, 2024, 05:04:20 pm
Great photo Graingrover,seen it before,but was'nt able to zoom in like I have with this,Was it Leger week? the car park is full of coaches and the grass car park near roundabout is full of cars,and looks like a fleet of buses on Hyde park road.
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Post by: BobG on September 26, 2024, 06:54:03 pm
Crikey... Got super pissed one summer night about 1977 and cut my right hand to shreds doing something very stupid in the Airport club there. Got knackered pogoing too.
Girls eh...?
BobG
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Post by: graingrover on September 26, 2024, 07:43:35 pm
1922 squad pic again you can scroll across
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Post by: BobG on September 26, 2024, 07:52:43 pm
Crikey! There's some old looking blokes on there!! Top row 6th from right and bottom row 5th from right and 2nd from left for example.

You sure this was a footy team Brian?! :) :) :)

BobG
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Post by: Ldr on September 26, 2024, 07:56:34 pm
1922 photo

The cowshed wasn't relocated from Bennetthorpe until 1927 I thought, and the airfield opened in 1934
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Post by: RoversInSpain on September 26, 2024, 08:00:34 pm
1922 photo

The cowshed wasn't relocated from Bennetthorpe until 1927 I thought, and the airfield opened in 1934
That’s the main stand prior to the additional roof extension,
Sorry did you mean the first photo?
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Post by: Ldr on September 26, 2024, 08:02:05 pm
1922 photo

The cowshed wasn't relocated from Bennetthorpe until 1927 I thought, and the airfield opened in 1934
That’s the main stand prior to the additional roof extension

Zoom in, the Cowshed is behind the town end goal
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Post by: Draytonian III on September 26, 2024, 08:18:45 pm
First photo, I thought there was 3 tunnels, home, away and the one towards the Rosso end
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Post by: scawsby steve on September 26, 2024, 09:12:52 pm
1922 photo

The cowshed wasn't relocated from Bennetthorpe until 1927 I thought, and the airfield opened in 1934
That’s the main stand prior to the additional roof extension

Zoom in, the Cowshed is behind the town end goal

I think the point he's making is that this picture can't have been 1922, and I agree with him. In fact, I reckon it's well after then.
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Post by: BradwellRover on September 26, 2024, 09:26:42 pm
Crikey... Got super pissed one summer night about 1977 and cut my right hand to shreds doing something very stupid in the Airport club there. Got knackered pogoing too.
Girls eh...?
BobG

My Mum and Dad were running the Airport Club around that time.  :)
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Post by: danumdon on September 26, 2024, 09:36:11 pm
The Belle Vue housing estate next to the ground, I brought my very first house there and its right in the middle of the picture, It wasn't built until late 1920's if i remember from the house deeds.
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Post by: phil o sophical on September 26, 2024, 09:56:14 pm
1922 squad pic again you can scroll across
Where's Copps. Can't pick him out at all
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Post by: roversdude on September 26, 2024, 10:01:32 pm
Scawsby and DW are in that crowd somewhere behind the team photo
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Post by: scawsby steve on September 26, 2024, 10:10:49 pm
Scawsby and DW are in that crowd somewhere behind the team photo

Yeah, when we were little kids. BB wasn't there though, he was at work.
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Post by: SydneyRover on September 27, 2024, 03:41:56 am
https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW049428

The caption has the first photo from GR dated 1935

There's a bit more further down the page.
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Post by: BobG on September 27, 2024, 05:05:08 am
1922 photo

The cowshed wasn't relocated from Bennetthorpe until 1927 I thought, and the airfield opened in 1934

I've got an ancient framed souvenir here on my bedroom wall of "England's First Flying Week Held at Doncaster." The date down at the bottom is October 16th to 23rd 1909. If that wasn't held at the Airport, where was it held?

If somebody could explain how to attach a photo to my post I'll happily do so.

Cheers

BobG

Title: Re: I came across this on x.com
Post by: Ldr on September 27, 2024, 05:40:37 am
1922 photo

The cowshed wasn't relocated from Bennetthorpe until 1927 I thought, and the airfield opened in 1934

I've got an ancient framed souvenir here on my bedroom wall of "England's First Flying Week Held at Doncaster." The date down at the bottom is October 16th to 23rd 1909. If that wasn't held at the Airport, where was it held?

If somebody could explain how to attach a photo to my post I'll happily do so.

Cheers

BobG



The racecourse Bob
Title: Re: I came across this on x.com
Post by: Wild Rover on September 27, 2024, 06:58:28 am
Great pic. Does it say ‘Charlesworth for Ford’ or similar on popside roof?

Some of the rear of the Rosso banking is still there behind ASDA.

I thought it said "Doncaster Free Press".
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Post by: goalkick on September 27, 2024, 10:03:11 am
Great photo can see my old house in st annes road backing on to the aircraft hanger. Cheers.
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Post by: Silkscarf on September 27, 2024, 10:32:58 am
1922 photo

The cowshed wasn't relocated from Bennetthorpe until 1927 I thought, and the airfield opened in 1934

https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/sport/nostalgia/nostalgia-the-story-of-doncaster-rovers-much-loved-former-home-belle-vue-3061010

The Cowshed arrived from Bennetthorpe July 1922 (according to this). It had only been built a year before that, so I guess the club were keen to retain it.

I always wondered how they did it. Was it partly dismantled or did they put the whole thing on wheels?
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Post by: In the box on September 27, 2024, 10:44:20 am
Pre war picture !
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Post by: Wild Rover on September 27, 2024, 10:53:55 am
Great pic. Does it say ‘Charlesworth for Ford’ or similar on popside roof?

Some of the rear of the Rosso banking is still there behind ASDA.
Great pic. Does it say ‘Charlesworth for Ford’ or similar on popside roof?

Some of the rear of the Rosso banking is still there behind ASDA.

I thought it said "Doncaster Free Press".
Having done as much manipulation of photo as my pc will allow without outrageous distortion it appears it does say Charlsworth for Ford.
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Post by: DD on September 27, 2024, 11:35:45 am
Glimpses of BV
https://youtu.be/yQ8CaYqC0O4?si=dHBRpbiqiFMz0ddo
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Post by: ss1953 on September 27, 2024, 03:29:04 pm
The Belle Vue housing estate next to the ground, I brought my very first house there and its right in the middle of the picture, It wasn't built until late 1920's if i remember from the house deeds.

My dad has just died and left me a house right behind the ground in the middle of the picture.
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Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on September 27, 2024, 06:24:55 pm
1922 photo

The cowshed wasn't relocated from Bennetthorpe until 1927 I thought, and the airfield opened in 1934
That’s the main stand prior to the additional roof extension,
Sorry did you mean the first photo?

Yes, it looks like the mainstand had just been extended but as you say, before the canopy was added.
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Post by: BobG on September 27, 2024, 08:36:51 pm
Thank you LDR!

BobG
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Post by: BobG on September 28, 2024, 12:59:36 pm
Silly question... If the Airport opened in 1934, what was all that land before then??

Cheers

BobG
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Post by: Sprotyrover on September 28, 2024, 01:21:53 pm
Silly question... If the Airport opened in 1934, what was all that land before then??

Cheers

BobG
I would guess it was common pasture and Carr land.
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Post by: BobG on September 28, 2024, 01:45:20 pm
Thanks Sproty. Although I know what common pasture is/was I've just had to Google what Carr land is and was. Having found out, it does make quite a bit of sense. The definition I read suggested Carrs are wetlands dominated by shrubs which clearly haven't been there for quite some time. But clearances, like on some of the plentiful other Carrs around there could account for that. I've  learned something. Thanks!

BobG