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IN ITS history Carr House Road has been home to facilities ranging from pubs to an isolation hospital.
An Ordnance Survey map from 1850 shows Carr House Lane - a bridle road - extending from Green Dyke Lane to the race course.
A short spur on Carr House Lane's south eastern side once led to Carr House and its estate, after which the route is presumably named. Later the route's western end was built upon, becoming the main focus of Hyde Park's railway community.
Development continued along its entire length throughout the 19th Century. Carr House Road house building, largely to cater for the influx of railway workers, appears to have begun shortly after the 1850 map was surveyed. References to the existence of The Hyde Park Tavern and Prince of Wales beer houses, along the route, date from the mid-1850s.
But, until after the First World War, house building only occurred on the route's western section, between Green Dyke Lane and what later became Chequer Road.
The Carr House estate, including the house and much of the land on the road's south eastern side, was acquired by Doncaster Corporation in 1884. The house eventually became a fever or isolation hospital.
The houses on Carr House Road's western side were the work of a number of builders, including B Cooper, J Barber and JC North.
On July 16, 1915, The Doncaster Gazette announced the Doncaster Corporation was planning to develop the Carr House Estate along the southern side of Carr House Road 'on Garden City Lines'.
SHOP bosses blamed heavy taxation when they closed Verity & Sons on Baxter Gate in 1950.
On August 17 that year, Verity's had announced the store was to be sold for 'private reasons' mainly concerned with the 'heavy incidence of taxation'.
It was also stated that 'the business was started by Mr and Mrs GE Verity in October 1911, in premises on the Baxter Gate site'.
This picture shows a busy scene in Baxter Gate looking towards the Market Place. Featured on the right are the business premises of Freeman, Hardy and Willis, and The Blue Bell pub just beyond.
On the left Woolworths, Owen Owen Ltd and Beetham's pub can be seen. Woolworths' premises were re-constructed after a devastating fire in May 1938. Early in October 1950, news came that the Liverpool firm of Owen Owen Ltd had bought the store of Verity & Sons Ltd, Baxter Gate. The store, which was to have been offered for sale later in the month, was sold privately. Owen Owen had branches at Liverpool, Preston, Blackpool, and Coventry. The business was to continue under the existing management until control finally passed to Owen Owen.
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Owen Owen were a similar kind of firm to Verity’s, and specialised in drapery.
Cleveland street
CLEVELAND Street was named after the Duke of Cleveland and opened as a thoroughfare in 1833-34.
The extensive demolition work which took place along the street during the 1960s was spread over several compulsory purchase orders.
This picture shows Cleveland Street at the junction with Portland Place featuring H Brown’s Television and Radio Exchange business premises at number 102.
One of the signs on his building states: ‘Trouble free RGD. Try Me’.
The Assemblies of God Pentecostal Church can be seen on the extreme right.
motorwoman
MOTORWOMEN appeared in Doncaster to fill in on public transport for soldiers who had gone to fight in World War One.
This picture shows a motorwoman at the helm of car number 13. During the First World War, as large numbers of the male population joined the fighting abroad, women became employed for the first time in a variety of jobs, including both tram driving and conducting.
In Doncaster during this period, the trams were staffed almost entirely by women. Car number 13 came to Doncaster in a batch of 15, made by Dick Kerr, in 1902.
Numbers 10 to 15 were fitted with top deck covers and direct staircases by Dick Kerr, in 1913 also becoming balcony cars. Numbers six to 15 were withdrawn in 1930.
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