City Status

[roversdude]

Received an e mail from DMBC advising they have officially applied for city status. They wanted everyone to wear purple to support it on 8th December
E mail received 16:23 on 8th December
Hope they were better at sending the application in

[Axholme Lion]

Received an e mail from DMBC advising they have officially applied for city status. They wanted everyone to wear purple to support it on 8th December
E mail received 16:23 on 8th December
Hope they were better at sending the application in

 

[Sprotyrover]

I thought it was claret not purple

[roversdude]

Today Doncaster officially submitted its bid to gain city status
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City status FINAL
It's official - we've gone for city status!

Following a campaign backed by Doncaster communities, businesses and young people, Doncaster today officially submits its bid to become a city through the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

We've seen some incredible support with SO many reasons why we believe Doncaster should be a city. Watch our video below for just a little taste...

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To mark the occasion, community and business venues are being encouraged to light up their buildings in purple, or for people to wear purple on Wednesday 8 December and to share photos on social media using the campaign hashtag #GoingForItDN.

The honour of city status is granted through a competition for UK towns held to coincide with significant royal milestones, this time as part of the celebrations for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, next year.

Doncaster’s bid has been compiled by Team Doncaster, a strategic partnership of organisations from across the public, private, voluntary, community and faith sectors in the borough.

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Support from Yorkshire and the Humber!

QUESTION - In what decade was the last new city in Yorkshire established?

ANSWER - the 1880s!

We're proud to say that our city status bid has the backing from from Council Leaders of Yorkshire and Humber and Mayors of West and South Yorkshire.

 Read the letter of support in full here:

Letter of Support

Thank you!

A huge thank you to everyone who has supported our campaign for city status so far.

From today we move from #GoingForItDN to #GONEForItDN!

Gone for Doncaster City
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[Colemans Left Hook]

the official runners and riders have been announced -- you get about 39 in the Grand National as well

by george a nice view they put up



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59758549

[Not Now Kato]

the official runners and riders have been announced -- you get about 39 in the Grand National as well

by george a nice view they put up



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59758549

Yep, the part of Doncaster they should have developed for public use.  Water always attracts, pity Doncaster Council can't see the benefits of it!

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

the official runners and riders have been announced -- you get about 39 in the Grand National as well

by george a nice view they put up



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59758549

Yep, the part of Doncaster they should have developed for public use.  Water always attracts, pity Doncaster Council can't see the benefits of it!

They have a plan for just that don't they?

[Colemans Left Hook]

I hope her Majesty remembers this in her 70th year as Queen ...  it could just tip the weighing scales

"Dunfermline: A golden winner for the Queen in Silver Jubilee year"

https://www.racingpost.com/news/dunfermline-a-golden-winner-in-silver-jubilee-year/151407

time to "give back" and reward Doncaster for all the pleasure it has given you  M'am

[Not Now Kato]

the official runners and riders have been announced -- you get about 39 in the Grand National as well

by george a nice view they put up



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59758549

Yep, the part of Doncaster they should have developed for public use.  Water always attracts, pity Doncaster Council can't see the benefits of it!

They have a plan for just that don't they?

It's one thing having a plan, it's another actioning it though - and there doesn't seem to be any action to date!
 
It's something they should have taken into consideration when they decided to build the Cultural Centre in Waterdale when the transport hub for both bus and rail is at the North end of the town! Would have been far more sensible to have the Cultural Centre by the water and the college where the cultural centre and council office now is!

[Colemans Left Hook]

maybe the risk of flooding comes into it -  where's our flood expert BB remembers the 1932 Bentley floods well

[Bentley Bullet]

Tell me about it! It's all Scawsby Steve ever talks about. His first-hand knowledge goes to great depths.

[glosterred]

maybe the risk of flooding comes into it -  where's our flood expert BB remembers the 1932 Bentley floods well

Yep he’s even in the film, about 7.30 minutes into the film


https://www.yfanefa.com/record/1105

[Bentley Bullet]

Some good footage of The Venice Of The North there.

[Petche]

Goole

[danumdon]

If it went on headcount per acre of human dross littering any pedestianised street in the "City" centre and railway station frontage we would run away with it!!

We know Johnson keeps bleating on about leveling up the north so i fully expect it to go to a southern town, Bournmouth, Milton Keynes or Reading.

[Petche]

Isn't there a fact that Doncaster has the largest Metropolitan Borough outside London? Whatever that means?

[Axholme Lion]

Isn't there a fact that Doncaster has the largest Metropolitan Borough outside London? Whatever that means?

It is a very large area, much of it spread out over miles from one end to the other.

[Campsall rover]

Isn't there a fact that Doncaster has the largest Metropolitan Borough outside London? Whatever that means?

Largest by land area I think.

[Campsall rover]

My gut feeling is Reading will get it this time.

Can there be only one winner each year. I assume that is the case.

Reading, Middlesbrough and Doncaster I would think will be the front runners.
But as usual I know nothing. Just a gut.

Come on Donny it would be fantastic for the area if we could get City status.
It does make a difference.

[Filo]

Isn't there a fact that Doncaster has the largest Metropolitan Borough outside London? Whatever that means?

It is a very large area, much of it spread out over miles from one end to the other.

219 Square Miles

[Campsall rover]

You only have to look at our record v Reading. Not a great omen.

Our biggest bogey team in the entire Football pyramid. ( based on a decent No of games played )

Oh well maybe it’s our time, who knows. It’s not a football game. 

[Campsall rover]

Goole

If they get it then I predict DRFC will be playing Real Madrid in the European Super League in 5 years time.

[turnbull for england]

Hairy bikers kept saying Tickhill was in Sheffield on the programme this week.blatently wrong but wonder if that was to do city status , or just stretching it as they also said it was a show all done in Pennines

[Colemans Left Hook]

Hairy bikers kept saying Tickhill was in Sheffield on the programme this week.blatently wrong but wonder if that was to do city status , or just stretching it as they also said it was a show all done in Pennines

and now for a little known fact about Tickhill .....   

Tickhill Castle is one of the earliest examples of BOGOFF   (Build one get one for free)

The castle started as an 11th-century motte-and-bailey earthwork named Blythe Castle, built by Roger de Busli, a major landholder in the Domesday Book holding 174 estates in Nottinghamshire, on land granted to him by William the Norman. The castle was deliberately built on the Nottingham/Yorkshire border, as Roger held authority in both. After a siege in 1102 Robert Bloet added a curtain wall to the rampart around the bailey; the first part of the castle to be built of stone
 

[ravenrover]

It was also part of the Kings highway from Nottingham

[SydneyRover]

some more little known facts .....

''The castle started as an 11th-century motte-and-bailey earthwork named Blythe Castle, built by Roger de Busli, a major landholder in the Domesday Book holding 174 estates in Nottinghamshire, on land granted to him by William the Norman. The castle was deliberately built on the Nottingham/Yorkshire border, as Roger held authority in both. After a siege in 1102 Robert Bloet added a curtain wall to the rampart around the bailey; the first part of the castle to be built of stone''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickhill_Castle

[phil old leake]

Turnbull do you expect anything else   Everything in S Yorks to people not from there is Sheffield related. The worst example is the airport.  It’s not anything to do with Sheffield it’s Doncaster airport so why change it’s name

[Campsall rover]

Turnbull do you expect anything else   Everything in S Yorks to people not from there is Sheffield related. The worst example is the airport.  It’s not anything to do with Sheffield it’s Doncaster airport so why change it’s name

So if we get City status ( which we won’t ) then will the airport drop the Sheffield out of the name?

[normal rules]

At least they have dropped the Robin Hood bollox

[phil old leake]

Campsall I’d like to think so but it won’t happen because as you suggest i doubt city status is going to happen