York Road, Doncaster. June 1992
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2015
- A drive along York Road from the Sun Inn to the Frenchgate (Arndale) Centre roundabout during the road dualling scheme in June 1992. The video has been transferred from Hi8 to VHS to DVD to PC so has lost a lot of detail. It still may be of interest to anyone who remembers the traffic jams before the road was made into a dual carriageway with fondness!!
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Because its all gradual change bits every year, you don't notice it. Had to watch this twice. Scary, where's 30 years gone.
This takes me back, it's hard to imagine this being the same York Road that we know today. Oddly enough, I took a trip to a street in Scawsby where I used to live, and I couldn't believe how much it had changed in the time since I had lived there.
Fantastic, I was 17 years old, now daily travel this route and it is unrecognizable, thank you so much for sharing.
+Tracy Booker If I had known how much interest would been shown in this video 23 years after I made it, I would have made a better job of it! I had just bought one of those new fangled camcorders and decided to try it out one summer evening. Work had just started on the road widening scheme so I thought it might be a good idea to record the road before its transformation. I wish I had been less enthusiastic with the zoom! Thanks for your comments, Carl.
The best video on RUclips! I used this route for many years but couldn't remember the actual road layout (especially the white hatchings between the lanes) but seeing this brings it all flooding back gloriously, brilliant cheers.
Thanks for your comment, it's much appreciated.
Excellent film, love the 80's cars! I was only 22 then and away at college but I remember the work being done, was back in Doncaster that summer for a couple of months. It was still quite a green entrance to the town before the work, you can see the hedges and old stone gate posts and limestone walls. There were still fields where Morrison's is now and a I remember the old scrapyard overhead crane framework. The road was very busy even then with big jams. Today it's just as bad at times! The area now is just a characterless, standard ugly urbanisation, instead of the historic old A1 entrance it used to be.
My Aunty lived near York Road and I always remember the old scrapyard (crane), it seem to tower above everything else. My, hasn`t it changed, with the newer road, St Georges Bridge. Liked the video, seeing the older model cars, and the familiar surroundings of Doncaster.
Thank you very much for uploading. I'd be 9 years old when this was filmed. I lived in Intake and used to visit my mate who lived on Herbert Street most weekends. Me and my dad would have taken part of this route home. The shop at 1:26 did video rentals for a spell and we must have rented King of the Kickboxers about 6 times. Never seen it since. Anywhere. Then as teens we just bought beer underage from Morrisons. Thanks again.
Thanks for your comments. I'm glad the video brought back some fond memories.
Well that took me back. Before Morrison’s was built. And you can see the old Don Cinema being demolished. I lived just around the corner at 3 Bentley Road when this was filmed.
Like the guys at the bus stop around 0:58 - white shirts and jeans - looks like they are heading into town for a night out
That is Doncaster Nite out for you!!!
Wow this takes me back. Please share any more u have
I spent my childhood in the 2010s around here near and at Bentley. I didn't recognise the road at all until I saw the layout where Morrisons would be. This just briefly shows how things change.
Wow, brings back lovely memories. I worked at the petrol station at the time and remember it all well.
Lived in scawsby went to school in clay lane and Edenthorpe. Made that journey twice a day from junior school St George’s clay lane ( now housed) to comprehensive Hunger Hill.
Boothys scrap yard, what an eyesore.
The houses that were demolished to make way for the flyover.
I worked on widening of the North Road.
Thanks for a wonderful trip back in time
Concrete bus shelters.
This is brilliant!! It hurts my head to try and keep up with where it's at going along the road compared to how it is today! I travel this route everyday today and it's nothing like this! I would of been around 2 when this was done but what a fantastic idea!
What made you film this at the time? Did you plan to share it many years down the line? It's almost like you're a time traveller that knew what was coming 🤣
Awesome, we moved away in about 85, so didn't suffer the upgrading of this road, but I definitely remember York Rd - regular route into Donny from Green Lane, either with my Mu or the 211 YT or 498 Wakefield Coaches.
I grew up on the town end estate and it was never a clean place. It's amazing how you forget about what it was like. I used to go scrap metaling and weigh in at boothies. Coming back from Don Valley on an old vanhool bus in the rush hour crawling along that route. I'm getting old damn.
unrecognizable things have changed
Wow its familiar yet completely different, better even
Amazing thank you
How things have changed.
I was minus 4 years old then, travel the route every single day, bizzare, like looking into alternate world lol
i was minus 3
2:40 that bridge is soo rusty now and the streets covered in littered crap why have we come to this Doncaster we used to be clean
that bridge isnt there anymore its now a concrete underpass & not as cambered as it is on vid
the one your refering to you dont see it on here as vid starts at barnsley junction not woodlands/highfields
Can still tell in places how it used to be . Such as where the flats now are on the corner of Sprotbrough road can tell thats the old york road up to the petrol station
Remember getting stung by a wasp dropping my ice cream at the bus stop outside the old bnq few years before this that's my earliest memory but this is how I remember it all
LOL ... I know I shouldn`t but great story!
0:25 I spotted an old pre-Warboys road sign there. Probably from the 1950's.
I just turned 17 in June that year and I forgot how it used to look. And the old bridge was 4 lanes now 2 that's progress for ya
For one , you can,t drive over the North bridge anymore, unless your in a bus or taxi. I used to live in Scawsby.
Wow ... I know 1992 was a busy year for me but have I missed something? I just cannot remember all the roadworks and alterations, houses, businesses gone.
This video defiantly has a certain vibe to it
Plenty of Cavvies knockin abaart 😊
Would love to see more of you have any??
I was 4 years old. I dont remember anything up to the north bridge.
Think that may have been me at the bus stop @0:54
There goes the Don Cinema!
the year i moved to donny !
Great Video! I've only been delivering in Doncaster for the last 4 years.........So, back then, was there the St George's Bridge and also St Mary's Roundabout looks very different?
The construction of St George's Bridge had just commenced when I made this video. You might be able to spot a digger on a pile of rubble, that's the where the new bridge will join the A19.
@@radiation1001 Aye, spotted that. I take it the only way over the river back then was the North Bridge road? I was getting confused, then spotted 3 Horseshoes Pub, haha!
so much easyer in them days untill they got some idiot in to design a total fk up road system
so weird :)
All these comments are just old people. Bruh im 15 why did i get recommended this. I mean i live here but wtf
im 15 too and ive lived here for like 12 years
i find the 80s and 90s fascinating for some reason so that must be why im here