Rounded Corners VP – Under Developement
Sunny Bar
There are a number of Rounded Corner buildings on this junction.
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Clock Corner Junction
Yorkshire Penny Bank
Jewellers
Scot Lane Right
Scot Lane Left
The Courtyard
Bowers Fold MP
TSB Bank
Britannia Building
Angel & Royal
Prince's Street/High Street
Prince's Street/East Laith Gate
Gaumont Corner
A Mr Tyas commenced building a house on a site where the Gaumont Cinema later stood at the southeast end of Hall Gate. It appears that Mr Tyas’s house was encroaching on the public highway and a delegation from the Watch Committee was sent to inspect the site. Mr Tyas wished to proceed but the Watch Committee, having taken into consideration the great expense the Council had been at in widening and rounding of the corners of the public streets whenever they had the opportunity, could not recommend the Council to accede to Mr Tyas’s request. Mr Tyas sent a letter to the Council complaining that the Watch Committee was made up entirely of Liberals and claiming that when he bought the land and stables they were a public nuisance. He disliked the Corporation’s interference and wrote “such proceedings ought not to be tolerated and all I can say to those individuals who do so is Oh fie!” Nevertheless, despite his protest, Mr Tyas was forced to set back the offending building by five feet.
French Gate/St Sepulchre Gate
In 1811 £317 was paid by the Corporation to Mr F Turner for improving his property at the corner of St Sepulchre gate and French Gate.
The RCB was lost in the 1960s, when the corner was demolished to mak way for the Arndale, later the French Gate Centre.
Subscription Library
HSBC
In around 1887, the York City and County Bank took the premises in the house on the corner of Baxter Gate and High Street.
Evidently the premises weren’t large enough because in 1895 the bank acquired all the property up to the Yorkshire Bank (Now Barclays), and proceeded to erect a new building to the design of Walter Brierley, of Demaine & Brierley, a firm of architects, based in York.
This was the first time that white Portland stone had been used in the town. It was built by William Anelay, whose building business was then based in Dockin Hill Road and Silver Street. They had previously built Rossington Hall and the Free Library on St George Gate.
The building is built in a baroque style, with the statuary and green copper clad dome, topped by the figure of the winged Mercury, the god of trade, and the date was added to the cast rainwater hoppers.
Railway Inn
Cleveland Arms
The Leopard
Queens Hotel
Sunny Bar Clock
Sleafords
Free Press
Maridon Centre
It was designed in 1882 by Wilson and Masters for a Conservative Club with shops underneath. The cellar was run by James Milnthorpe who was a maltster, and hotel owner and was involved in various schemes. Later he bought the Salutation Inn on South Parade.
The older maps of 1850s show that the building may have been part of the entrance to the large Nether Hall estate before it was later developed into housing in the 1870s.
Ye Olde Crown
Ye Olde Crown was built in 1795, and stood in this approximate location until the original building was demolished and rebuilt in 1902. In that year Greyfriars Road was laid through from the Great North Road to the Market Place, to accommodate the construction of the electricity station to power the new tram system.
Danum Hotel
The Danum was built in two parts -- the first part seen here was built in 1909/10 -- the second part was built immediately after the WW1, and took out the small building with the Georgian window. The hotel was all decked out to celebrate Empire day, May 24, 1912.
Silver Street/High Street
The Hole in the Wall Building
Prudential Assurance Building
The Nelson
Cleveland Street/Young Street
Ward Bros
Lower Wood Street/Cleveland Street
Cooplands
Benfit Boot Clock
Emporium
Beethams Corner
Joshua Beetham was born in Hooton Pagnell in 1725 and came into the liquor trade in 1760. the earliest reference to Beetham in St. George Gate was 1787, when he is the landlord of the George and Dragon. Joshua had 7 children and when he died in 1798 his business was passed to his 4th son, also called Joshua, the Beetham family ran the pub up until 1945 when the family business was sold.in 1986. Whitbread changed the name to the Gatehouse and sadly the 200-year association with Beetham ended.
Danum Gallery Library and Museum
A modern take on Rounded Corner Buildings, utilising glass instead of brick. The old Girls High school, that replaced the Victorian built Chequer House now protected inside the glass frontispiece.
Central Hotel
Oriental Chambers Corner/Station Road=St Sepulchre gate
Co-operative Mens DepartmentStation Road
Hall Gate/Cleveland Street
Dowson was a prominent Donny businessman, and chairman of the Council's Electric Light Committee, which introduced electric streetlamps in Donny at the end of the 19th century. He was also a big football fan, and helped fund Doncaster Rover's first brief sojourn in the Football League in 1901-05, when the club played at the Intake Stadium, just off Town Moor Avenue.
Alderman Mark Dowson, in Cleveland St.,16th Aug.,1909.as well as holding office, he was a tailor and an outfitter with premises in Hall Gate and Silver Street.