Doncaster trivia quiz

[Highland Rover]

Cricketers.........Alonzo Robson Drake was one ,

[Wild Rover]

Joe Johnson played football for DRFC and first Class cricket.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Johnson_(cricketer)

My grandad was Joe Johnson.

[RobTheRover]

And snooker for Bradford.

[charleydrfc]

chris balderstone

[donnyplant]

On the subject of Doncaster Produce...

Which well known confectionery was invented/created in Doncaster by a Doncaster firm, in around 1835, is still well know today and was presented to the Queen in 1948, and Princess Anne, the Princess Royal in 2007....?

[Wellred]

It is either Nuttals Mintoes or Parkinsons Butterscotch but I will go for Mintoes

[donnyplant]

Sorry its not Mintoes....

[TheRev]

Was it a tin of Plant Works Snuff that they gave to the apprentices?

[The Red Baron]

Cricketers.........Alonzo Robson Drake was one ,

Correct- so that's Balderstone, Hemsley and Drake. There's one more. Not Joe Johnson who never appeared for the Rovers First XI.

[The Red Baron]

Joe Johnson played football for DRFC and first Class cricket.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Johnson_(cricketer)

My grandad was Joe Johnson.

Sorry- he never played for the Rovers' Football League team (or in the FA Cup). He may have been a reserve player or appeared in wartime games.

[donnyplant]

In reply to the rev, I'm afraid not.

Wellreds answer he chose not to give was actually correct.

butterscotch was invented in Doncaster

[silent majority]

On the subject of Doncaster Produce...

Which well known confectionery was invented/created in Doncaster by a Doncaster firm, in around 1835, is still well know today and was presented to the Queen in 1948, and Princess Anne, the Princess Royal in 2007....?

Deja vue!!

I though we discussed this on page 6

[donnyplant]

very true! but with a tread 7 pages long i only tend to read the top couple of posts on each page...

[ravenrover]

Assuming I'm correct, which I think I am,....... on the 7th May 1971 Doncaster's top group of the time (in my opinion) played their final gig at Doncaster Racecourse as the opening act for glam rockers The Sweet, Name the group.

I thought the idea behind this was to post a question after the previous one had been answered  
Well for all those who might be intersted the answer is Potbelly

[ch-ch rover]

I saw Potbelly at a school leavers dance around 1970 or 71 possibly at Donny gramer

[RobTheRover]

I was gonna go for The Playground Chairs or Slug The Night Watchman (yes, I know they were much later)

[Donnywolf]

Assuming I'm correct, which I think I am,....... on the 7th May 1971 Doncaster's top group of the time (in my opinion) played their final gig at Doncaster Racecourse as the opening act for glam rockers The Sweet, Name the group.

I thought the idea behind this was to post a question after the previous one had been answered  
Well for all those who might be intersted the answer is Potbelly

So did I ,,,, and posted this back on Page 4
My question is :
 
What happened to the system ?
 
It was answer a question correctly then set the next question
 
ANARCHY


Thanks for the answer Potbelly as I had been thinking of all those Groups around at that time and tbh I had not heard of them so must have been a shage early even for me

[The Red Baron]

Cricketers.........Alonzo Robson Drake was one ,

Correct- so that's Balderstone, Hemsley and Drake. There's one more. Not Joe Johnson who never appeared for the Rovers First XI.

The final answer will be revealed tomorrow, but if anyone can come up with the name of the missing cricketer by midnight tonight, I'll buy them a pint at a forthcoming home game.

Now THERE'S an incentive!

Two more clues. This player holds an age-related record at another football club (local to Donny) and played on the opposing side to Alonzo Drake in one of his first-class cricket appearances.

[Mr1Croft]

In their first ever FA Cup match, who did Doncaster Rovers play? What year was it and what was the score?

[Wild Rover]

Thinkm i know this. Season 1924-1925 ( 10th jan 1925 ) DRFC 1 Norwich City 2.

[Mr1Croft]

Thinkm i know this. Season 1924-1925 ( 10th jan 1925 ) DRFC 1 Norwich City 2.

Surprisingly no, well not if you look at this article by Tony Bluff on the OS.

How it all began

DRFC 1-9 Rotherham United (1888)

[Wild Rover]

Well a little is learned every day, thats my quota for today.

[The Red Baron]

Cricketers.........Alonzo Robson Drake was one ,

Correct- so that's Balderstone, Hemsley and Drake. There's one more. Not Joe Johnson who never appeared for the Rovers First XI.

The final answer will be revealed tomorrow, but if anyone can come up with the name of the missing cricketer by midnight tonight, I'll buy them a pint at a forthcoming home game.

Now THERE'S an incentive!

Two more clues. This player holds an age-related record at another football club (local to Donny) and played on the opposing side to Alonzo Drake in one of his first-class cricket appearances.

The fourth cricketer was.... Tommy Thorpe.

He was Rovers' goalkeeper during the 1904-05 season, when the club finished botttom of Division Two with a mere eight points. Thorpe played in 31 League games and was one of the better performers in a side that wasn't up to Football League standard (they'd struggled the previous season in the Midland League after being unluckily ejected from the FL at the end of the 1902-03 season.) While Rovers returned to the Midland League, Thorpe joined Barnsley and spent four seasons there before moving on to Southern League Northampton Town, where he played until 1921.

It was while he was at Northampton that he enjoyed his brief cricketing career, playing three games for Northamptonshire during the 1913 season. He seems to have been something of a make-weight, as in three games he batted low down the order (he scored 11 runs in three innings) and didn't bowl. Northants often struggled to put teams in the field and his appearances were in June, before many of the club's amateurs were available. Thorpe had the distinction of not finishing on the losing side as of his three games two were won (over Essex and Gloucestershire) and the other with Yorkshire was drawn. On the Yorkshire side was Alonzo Drake, another ex-Rover, who had played for us from 1901-1303.

Thorpe continued to play for Northampton Town after the war, featuring in their debut season in the Football League (1920-1) before returning to Barnsley (1921-2) where he becme the club's oldest player at over 40 years of age.

[Sprotyrover]

Which 19th century Author was dismayed when he discovered that a Local Doncaster Landowner had acquired all of the Bones from the dead Soldiers and horses killed at the Napoleonic battles of Leipzig, Austerlitz, and Waterloo,had them shipped to Hull in sacks where they were ground to powder in a mill and then had them ploughed into the land as fertilizer.

This story has popped up in the Sunday times today. As archaeologists are scouring an old Orchard looking for what may be a mass grave.
However in 1822 it was reported that a firm of Doncaster 'Bone grinders' had imported a million Bushels of bone which had been ground down for fertiliser.

[RobTheRover]

Bloody hell, Sproty!  And then you remembered this thread from 4 and a half years ago.....

[BobG]

That's quite a span of time covered there Sproty.  There's 10 years between Austerlitz in 1805 and Waterloo in 1815. Where did our local entrepreneur store the bones of the 36,000 dead Russians and Austrians, and p'raps the 9,000 French dead too, while he was waiting for Leipzig and Waterloo?

Cracking story that Sproty. I've never heard it before. I'm grateful you mentioned it. Whoever that bloke was, he was he must have had a good agent out there in foreign land.

Bob

[wilts rover]

Although they took all their teeth out first (in fact they took all their teeth out before they buried them - maybe even before they were dead in some cases!)

Nice piece on it here:
https://medium.com/study-of-history/the-bones-of-waterloo-a3beb35254a3#.bh0md4xd5

[Sprotyrover]

Thanks for posting that Wilts,a very interesting but macabre read.

[BobG]

Did you spot this?!

Doncaster - "one of the largest agricultural markets..."

Before the rise of the industrial north Donny was one of the most sought after residential areas in the whole of the north. Just look at the number of stately homes dotted around the outskirts of the town. It was a wealthy agricultural paradise and a lot of very rich people lived round and about. Then came coal and rail and steel and industry!

Bob

[Dagenham Rover]

Did you spot this?!

Doncaster - "one of the largest agricultural markets..."

Before the rise of the industrial north Donny was one of the most sought after residential areas in the whole of the north. Just look at the number of stately homes dotted around the outskirts of the town. It was a wealthy agricultural paradise and a lot of very rich people lived round and about. Then came coal and rail and steel and industry!

Bob

Yep, look in the history and look at the amount of country houses that were dotted about this area nigh on every village had a country house the bulk of them demolished for whatever reason