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Name: Don Key Sent: 31/08 07:06 What a scene in the Kingsway area!! There are over 40 houses boarded up. Doncaster Council must quickly take responsibility to improve the area. I bet Councillor Jeffress is eying the area up for her next demolition project!! Name: dan City: stainforth doncaster Sent: 25/08 18:11 Thank you for such an insite to our own village very memorable keep up the good work Name: dunhope City: Dunscroft Sent: 24/08 14:42 now you know how the people of Dunscroft feel Name: Local Historian Sent: 22/08 10:35 Sad to see Stainforth Male Voice Choir being renamed Barnby Dun Male Voice Choir after over 70 years in existance. It seems to be the in thing dropping the word Stainforth from titles. e.g Stainforth and Hatfield Railway station becoming Hatfield and Stainforth and the sign at the bottom of the railway bridge just refers to the station as Hatfield. Also Stainforth Junior School has become Long Toft Primary. Bring back Stainforth!!! Name: Mike Starr City: Sheffield Sent: 20/08 18:59 Just sold my house in Sheffield moving to Stainforth mid September/2003 My best mates lives in Stainforth Albert & Flo Hepworth. Albert runs the Pit Club mention me to him Mike Starr Name: de Sent: 19/08 04:10 Good to hear of the history of Stainy, particularly as I am on the canal. Name: MRS M CURRAN City: STAINFORTH Sent: 17/08 15:58 I lived in Stainforth for 26years before moving just over the bridge. I lived at the back of Broughs, it was a great village with lots of shops and a good Brass Band which ofcourse they still have, although it is a shame that more people don't support it Name: Val Weir City: Edgecumbe Bay of Plenty New Zealand Sent: 15/08 05:50 as an ex pat stainyite, i find it really interesting that there are now people taking an interest in this really great site. I have been an ex stainyite for 40yrs+ but i still class it as my roots, and still have a great love of the place i grew up in. earlier postings on this site seem to harp on about what an awful place it is to live in, with the rundown of the shopping and housing,and the impression that the village is occupied by a bunch of yobo's. But my opinion is that the "real people of stainforth" will make sure that the stainforth that i grew up in, and the stainforth that is there now will keep on. I think everyone should thank adge for creating this site where we can express our individual opinions and if needed take the repercussions of the ye's or ney's of that opinion. So from nz i give my ok to the "people of stainforth" Val weir Name: len City: stainy Sent: 12/08 15:40 dear christine & local h thanks for information about stainy's past history i'm sure that i'm not the only person in the village who finds it hard to believe that our neighbours had larger populations than stainforth 200 years ago. stainforth couldn't have had any of us goodwins,sears or buchanans around in the early 1800s to up the population figures. christine i can remember the black swan when it was the old derelict lodging house we used to dive out of the windows into the canal. i will also see if i can get a copy of that map from the library. the following is just for info. i can remember about 16 years ago i was helping the clerk to get some papers out of the attic in the old town hall ( sally army building)and we came across this old map of stainforth,bramwith & barnby dun this map was approx 12ft x 12ft and it must have been a couple of hundred years old because most of the village wasn't on it. i enquired about the map when the council sold the t/hall and none of the councillors or the clerk could say what had happened to it i thought about going to the police and reporting it missing but never got round to it.if anyone knows the whereabouts of this map i'd love to know because it should be hung in library. i'm also very sure we will discover more about our village in the future and i'll keep looking bye for now Name: Dillon City: Chicago Sent: 12/08 01:56 Come and take me by the hand, I'll lead you through the streets of Stainforth, I'll show you something, to make you change your mind. Name: Christine Hemsworth City: Basingstoke Sent: 10/08 06:30 In answer to Len's question about there being more to the village than can be seen now. Stainforth library sent me a map of the village with archaeologocal points of interst. I don't have it to hand but its worth asking for, it shows a dovecote, biuldings that are worth listing, a bronze age site,(which may now be covered by the tip) the pantile roof on the building in the market place, you can spot others as you walk around, the remains of the wall of the Black Swan on the canal. There are many things to identify, also the sites of old buildings. Imagine what it would have been like before the drainage, no embankment, a winding river not the straight cut that it is now, no bridge, just a rocky ford. All the houses nearby flooded every winter. A farm where the market place is now. Get out and get looking! I feel sure that there is much to see and and more to discover. Name: Adge City: Stainforth Sent: 09/08 17:27 Please read Christine Hemsworth's excellent article about the churches and chapels of this area. I've just added it to the site and you'll find it in the Contributions section. Alternatively, click on the Latest Additions button and you'll find a link to it from there. Name: LocaL Historian Sent: 09/08 15:31 Len, Thanks for the information, it was most useful. The information Adge gave is quite correct. Stainforth has not got its own historic church and cemetary because of historical and geographical reasons and perhaps another place is needed to explain this properly. As a matter of fact Stainforth in 1801 was smaller than Fishlake or Sykehouse. e.g The population of Stainforth AND BRAMWITH was 472 but the population of Fishlake was 691 and the population of Sykehouse was 497. So Stainforth was not as important at this time as you think it might have been. By the way the population of Blackpool in 1801 was only 473 but in 1901 because of the Railways and of course The Tower and piers it was 47,348. Fancy in 1801 Blackpool only had 1 more inhabitant than Stainforth!!! Name: len City: stainy Sent: 09/08 13:21 adge ive just looked at the stainy pubs site question answered thank you Name: len City: stainy Sent: 09/08 13:12 l historian when i was on stainforth tc i recieved a call from a friend in planning at dmbc he told me that allens shop used to be an abbatoir and that the only other one like it in doncaster,poss yorkshire was one in tickhill these are the only two wooden structures left standing in this area he also told me that the council could purchase it for a nominal sum to be used as a town hall register it as a listed building and we would get a 100% grant for all repairs this was put to stainforth town council and they chose not to go ahead with this proposal instead they bought east lane house with ratepayers money and they've managed to lose it and the ratepayers money as well (so now we are a town without a town hall)there is an house on silver street 1771 across from wedding shop Name: len City: stainy Sent: 09/08 12:55 adge if stainforth was managed by other towns wot about fishlake,bramwith and barnby dun they have their own church/cems. SURELY IN 1500 YEARS THERE'S GOT TO BE MORE TO OUR VILLAGE THAN CAN NOW BE SEEN WHEN WE LOOK AROUND. Name: honky tonk Sent: 08/08 06:42 i understand that len.why cant they use the waste land around the church for burials it's never been used for as long as i can remember. Name: L. Historian Sent: 07/08 12:58 Good article Adge! it's an interesting topic, the Chapels and Churches of Stainforth. In an article in the Doncaster Gazette in February 1922 there is a description of an area of land only a few yards square which had become neglected on the site of the present Bungalow at the top of East Lane. Evidently it had been a Unitarian burial area with a Unitarian Chapel. The Chapel was pulled down in the 1880's and the material was used in the building of cottages on the corner of East Lane and Thorne Road. The pews were utilised in the making of cupboard doors etc. The burial area contained the remains of 10/11 people but there were only 3 Headstones. Presumably these were later moved to the present cemetary. In answer to Len there are historical structures in Stainforth e.g 1. Town End farmhouse in Ramskir Lane built around 1700 2.Allens old furniture shop in the Market place built in the late 1600's. 3. Stainforth Bridge built 1768. 4. The Lock cottages built in the early 1800's, etc. Also in 1355 research indicates there was a chapel in Stainforth and several chapels have been built and knocked down since. By the way there is an excellent article in todays Thorne Gazette about the History of the school on Church Road which is now called Long Toft Primary School Name: Adge Homepage: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adge.covell/ City: Stainforth Sent: 06/08 19:15 Although the history of Stainforth does indeed go back 1500 years, the fact remains that the people of Stainforth were always under the jurisdiction of an authority situated outside of this village. For example, when the Norman’s invaded England the village came under the jurisdiction of the Earl de Warren, who was situated at Conisbrough. In later years the village became a part of Hatfield. This meant that the villagers of Stainforth had to walk to Hatfield every Sunday for the church service. Of course this also meant that people were married, christened , and buried at Hatfield. Stainforth didn’t become a parish under it’s own right until 1885, when the Parish of Stainforth was declared, independent from that of Hatfield. Prior to this time Divine Services had been held fortnightly in the Chapel of Ease on Field Road, but the people of this village were still required to travel to Hatfield each Sunday. St .Mary’s was built less than seventy years ago, and the Chapel of Ease was demolished some twenty years later. It is rumoured that a cemetery existed around the Briars Lane area prior to the cemetery on Church Road being used. Indeed, it is thought that the first "occupants" of the Church Road cemetery, which has records going back to January 1st 1886, came from a previous interment at the Briars Road area. I wrote a piece about Stainforth’s first vicar in the People section. If you have time I suggest you browse through it. It’s quite informative about the early days in which Stainforth became a parish in it’s own right Adge. Name: len City: stainy Sent: 06/08 14:28 hi honky tonk regarding my prev article about churchs all im trying to say is if stainy is 1500 yrs old why cant we see some of its history around the village and why did it take 1300 years to build us a proddy church thorne/hatfield/bramwith/fishlke/barnbydun all have one with graveyard why not stainy Number of entries: 457 [ Back to the Stainforth 2001 Homepage ] [ Stainforthonline.co.uk ] |