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Title: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: Sprotyrover on July 31, 2020, 06:35:56 pm
I ave been given a copy of the Doncaster Courtier which is basically the minutes of council minutes from 1540 to 1620 ish.
I have been scouring it but not much info on Pubs. Found four so far, The Three Cranes, the Angel, the sign of the Bull and the sign of the White Hart no information about where they were in the Town.
On a side it was a bye law offence for a Butcher to Dress mutton as Lamb! Must have been a common occupancy!
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: drfchound on July 31, 2020, 07:03:54 pm
That was quite a short meeting sproty, only 40 minutes.
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: Metalmicky on July 31, 2020, 07:35:06 pm
I wonder how old the White Hart is? - it used to have the tallest bar in England (I think), but I believe they have put steps up to it since I last frequented it...
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: Filo on July 31, 2020, 07:44:06 pm
I wonder how old the White Hart is? - it used to have the tallest bar in England (I think), but I believe they have put steps up to it since I last frequented it...

White Swann?
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: idler on July 31, 2020, 08:18:44 pm
I ave been given a copy of the Doncaster Courtier which is basically the minutes of council minutes from 1540 to 1620 ish.
I have been scouring it but not much info on Pubs. Found four so far, The Three Cranes, the Angel, the sign of the Buu and the sign of the White no information about where they were in the Town.
On a side it was a bye law offence for a Butcher to Dress mutton as Lamb! Must have been a common occupancy!
My great-grandparents lived on Three Cranes Yard. I think that it ran from Frenchgate to Factory Lane. I think that it was demolished in the 30s.
A part of it might have been behind the where the Beehive was as that was built in 1940.
Beehive coaches and some buses ran fron there in the 60s.
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: turnbull for england on July 31, 2020, 08:46:59 pm
There was a cracking picture on Facebook today of the thatched house, just down from the corp taps in the 60s under shadow of the high-rise
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: scawsby steve on July 31, 2020, 09:03:21 pm
I can remember in the 1950s when I was a kid, Donny was packed with pubs and cinemas.

Understandable really as, apart from football, they were the only real venues of entertainment, compared with today's massive leisure and service industry.
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: Dagenham Rover on July 31, 2020, 09:52:50 pm
There was a cracking picture on Facebook today of the thatched house, just down from the corp taps in the 60s under shadow of the high-rise

Yeh I saw that as well
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: Metalmicky on July 31, 2020, 10:12:51 pm
I wonder how old the White Hart is? - it used to have the tallest bar in England (I think), but I believe they have put steps up to it since I last frequented it...

White Swann?

That's right - too many bars....
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: Sprotyrover on July 31, 2020, 10:35:56 pm
In 1901 there was a White Hart at 5 Frenchgate
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: SydneyRover on July 31, 2020, 10:51:48 pm
I ave been given a copy of the Doncaster Courtier which is basically the minutes of council minutes from 1540 to 1620 ish.
I have been scouring it but not much info on Pubs. Found four so far, The Three Cranes, the Angel, the sign of the Buu and the sign of the White no information about where they were in the Town.
On a side it was a bye law offence for a Butcher to Dress mutton as Lamb! Must have been a common occupancy!

These may help you Sprot not sure if the maps available have the detail you need. There seems to be a few siimilar sites online.

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/map/unibern/000995842
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: roversdude on August 02, 2020, 08:48:51 am
There’s a brilliant Facebook group run by Tom Beardsley https://www.facebook.com/groups/lookingbackatdoncaster/?ref=share
I’ve learnt so much more about the town I have lived in all my life
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: SydneyRover on August 02, 2020, 09:48:57 am
Thanks RD, fb is a brilliant concept but I won't use it until there is some control over the power it wields.
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: Sprotyrover on December 07, 2020, 05:52:25 pm
I ave been given a copy of the Doncaster Courtier which is basically the minutes of council minutes from 1540 to 1620 ish.
I have been scouring it but not much info on Pubs. Found four so far, The Three Cranes, the Angel, the sign of the Buu and the sign of the White no information about where they were in the Town.
On a side it was a bye law offence for a Butcher to Dress mutton as Lamb! Must have been a common occupancy!
My great-grandparents lived on Three Cranes Yard. I think that it ran from Frenchgate to Factory Lane. I think that it was demolished in the 30s.
A part of it might have been behind the where the Beehive was as that was built in 1940.
Beehive coaches and some buses ran fron there in the 60s.
The Three Cranes did Stand at the top of the  three Cranes Yard Yard there is a deed in existence dated 1612.
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: Donnywolf on December 07, 2020, 06:34:26 pm
This thread appeared in 2013 - plenty to look at here lol

https://www.drfc-vsc.co.uk/index.php?topic=241044.0
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: ravenrover on December 07, 2020, 08:24:18 pm
In 1901 there was a White Hart at 5 Frenchgate
That's the one I remember, opposite the old pllice station just up from the Bass pub with the alley way through the middle that went to the old bus station now what was that one called?
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: scawsby steve on December 07, 2020, 09:02:27 pm
In 1901 there was a White Hart at 5 Frenchgate
That's the one I remember, opposite the old pllice station just up from the Bass pub with the alley way through the middle that went to the old bus station now what was that one called?

It was the Bay Horse, Raven.
Title: Re: Doncaster town centre Oldest Pubs
Post by: ravenrover on December 07, 2020, 09:23:12 pm
That's the one thanks SS