I grew up in Thurnscoe and Great Houghton; about seven and nine miles to the west of Doncaster. Here's a list of some of changes that have happened to the villages that I can recall…some changes are good, but some are definitely bad.
The secondary school I attended is now the largest school for autistic children in the world and local children have to travel on buses to attend school in the next village/town.
The third house I lived in has been demolished as part of a major regeneration programme.
Many of the footpaths I used to walk along as a child and young adult are now quite overgrown.
Both of the coal mines where my father used to work closed about twenty years ago; replaced by a housing estate and industrial development.
One of the railway lines that operated through Thurnscoe has now closed, yet the other remains open and had its passenger services to the village re-instated in 1988.
The air in Thurnscoe and neighbouring villages is now a lot cleaner since the thirty collieries and two coke production plants within a five mile radius have been closed.
Two local sewage farms have closed…I'm not even sure where effluent goes to be processed now.
A line of high voltage electricity pylons which used to pass right over the houses was re-aligned by a couple of hundred yards about thirty years ago.
Three local police stations have closed and one now only opens for limited hours.
The local retained fire station has closed.
A local junior school [that I didn't attend] has closed and sheltered accommodation for elderly people has been built on the site.
The local swimming baths closed and a polyclinic has been built on the site.
One local library has closed.
Two local independent bus companies have gone out of business.
A beautiful country park and sculpture trail has been established on the site of an old colliery spoil heap - I absolutely love the place, it has fantastic views towards to Pennines!
LissaT
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In my neck of the woods this is what has happened:
I grew up in the part of Cleethorpes called Thrunscoe. Here's a list of some of changes that have happened to the villages that I can recall:
The grammar school I attended is now the lower school of one of the two large comprehensives in Cleethorpes. Children no longer have to travel on buses to this attend school from the surrounding villages.
The three houses I lived in are all still standing, as are those built by assorted ancestors over the last couple of hundred years. Most have been very much modernised and extended. The first house I live in (my maternal grandparents’ house) is in a sorry state: a developer’s dreanm – the worst house in a good road.
Many of the footpaths I used to walk along as a child and young adult are now paved or built over as streets.
The fishing industry is no longer directly or indirectly a major employer.
The railway line still runs into Cleethorpes but the service is vastly reduced and the ‘trains’ (such as they are) consist of two carriages.
The air in Cleethorpes continues bracing and very, very fresh.
The pumping station was rebuilt to embrace modern technology and reduce the effluent flowing into the Humber and North Sea.
The local police station remains open where it always was – next door but one to my maternal grandparents’ house.
The local retained fire station remains open where it always was – just behind my maternal grandparents’ house.
A local junior school I attended has been substantially rebuilt, and the old infant school building across the alley has been demolished and sold off for housing. The infant school I attended is still there, but lost some of its garden to a newer nursery school. Of the other primary schools – several have amalgamated the infant and junior schools, one has relocated and the old building turned into offices, and two new ones built.
The large open air bathing pool closed and a leisure centre has been built on the site.
The library has been relocated to a new building on the seafront, and the old building has become an old people’s home imaginatively named ‘The Old Library’.
The bus company has changed its livery from blue and cream, and has been privatised.
A country park has been established on the site of an farm to the south of the town.
The old zoo has become 'Pleasure Island'.
Two vast estates have been added to the south and south west of the town, and a Tesco built on what we always believed to be green belt.