The best part of the town (as far as I know) to see evidence of its Georgian and later industrial heyday is in the area on, and around, South Parade, which leads from the edge of the town centre to the Racecourse. Alongside the wide road stand a number of late Georgian buildings, this road […]

Best to visit Doncaster by train as it gives the opportunity to enjoy the business of a main East Coast Line station. To sit on platform 8 and see that King’s Cross to Edinburgh trains gliding in (see above), and leaving with almost silent acceleration is captivating. But the real buzz comes when one of

Doncaster is an historic place and the county town of South Yorkshire, it is not a place I know every inch of but I know the bits I like. It is easy to get there by train or coach or car (45 miles), but the first site to mention is a bus-ride from the bus

This photo shows a group of tall teasels in late winter with a plantation of young native trees behind (for the context see Atheism 1). Teasel is the name of the plant as well as the flower head/seed head, these in the past harvested for use in the woollen cloth making industry, these days more

This photo, following the theme set out in Atheism 1, shows a cluster of daisies, ground cover perennials, with one root in flower. Take in March it is not so surprising to see one in flower, but it is quite early; the day was frosty but the sun was shining as evidenced by the open

The photo shows a relatively young alder (not elder) tree in the location and date explained in Atheism 1. Alder is a tree that flourishes in damp, even waterlogged, ground. It is deciduous so in winter its seedpods and catkins are more visible than later in the year. It is a native species (see explanation