O/T Doncaster is to become a city

[Brin]

Congratulations to Doncaster in becoming a city in the Queens jubilee awards.

It matters no what how people perceive what they think of Doncaster, the Queen has spoken and now Doncaster is to become a City. Their heritage somehow swung this.

NB. Talking of anybody ancestry finders out there, why aren’t we a new City? We do have 1 of only 4 chapel on the bridges in the entire UK, of which Mary Queen of Scots was kept overnight on her her way to London to be beheaded. Never ruffled her feathers.

[avondalemiller]

,,,don't think your history is quite right..........

[Brin]

,,,don't think your history is quite right..........

Avondale, you may well be right. I'm just going on what we were told at school as kids. I've been doing some more research and it appears Mary Queen of Scots actually did spend some time in Rotherham as you will read from the paragraphs below.

One of the most famous stories about the chapel concerns the visit of Mary Queen of Scots to Rotherham in January, 1569. For many years a prisoner of Elizabeth I, Mary’s captivity became entangled with the time, many years later, when the chapel served as the town gaol. Legend suggests that she was imprisoned here, but the evidence tells us that she was held at a house on the corner of High Street and Wellgate.

Furthermore, she apparently spent quite some time in the Manor House at Sheffield, before her later arrest and taking to the capital to be executed.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Avondale, you may well be right. I'm just going on what we were told at school as kids. I've been doing some more research and it appears Mary Queen of Scots actually did spend some time in Rotherham as you will read from the paragraphs below.

One of the most famous stories about the chapel concerns the visit of Mary Queen of Scots to Rotherham in January, 1569. For many years a prisoner of Elizabeth I, Mary’s captivity became entangled with the time, many years later, when the chapel served as the town gaol. Legend suggests that she was imprisoned here, but the evidence tells us that she was held at a house on the corner of High Street and Wellgate.

Furthermore, she apparently spent quite some time in the Manor House at Sheffield, before her later arrest and taking to the capital to be executed.

MQoS had already been taken into captivity before her time at the Manor Lodge Sheffield, it was in fact a comfortable prison during the time it took for Queen Elizabeth to be persuaded by her advisors that letting her live was a credible threat to Elizabeth’s reign and execution of Mary was the only way to protect her own position as monarch.

[CAMiller]

Avondale, you may well be right. I'm just going on what we were told at school as kids. I've been doing some more research and it appears Mary Queen of Scots actually did spend some time in Rotherham as you will read from the paragraphs below.

One of the most famous stories about the chapel concerns the visit of Mary Queen of Scots to Rotherham in January, 1569. For many years a prisoner of Elizabeth I, Mary’s captivity became entangled with the time, many years later, when the chapel served as the town gaol. Legend suggests that she was imprisoned here, but the evidence tells us that she was held at a house on the corner of High Street and Wellgate.

Furthermore, she apparently spent quite some time in the Manor House at Sheffield, before her later arrest and taking to the capital to be executed.

She was executed at Fotheringhay Castle in Northants Brin (I read about it recently as we were looking at a house there). Executioner missed her neck with first swing, a bit wild like gm_gm's golf swing I expect

[millersrus]

Wonder if there will be any changes to boundaries. Would assume the Sheffield city region will be affected, can there be a city within a city ?
Should football league status have been taken into account ��
I’m ok with whatever HM decides.

[jocksgloves]

Congratulations. About time.

[rolymiller]

Not looking forward to donny fans singing small town in donny to us and calling us toy town.

[MILLERSTALE]

Not looking forward to donny fans singing small town in donny to us and calling us toy town.

Don’t worry by the time we play Doncaster again, we will probably be a city ?

[rolymiller]

Will they change their name to doncaster city? Swansea changed from swansea town to swansea city when they got their new status. Also is it a case we wlll be left even further behind? Maybe end up being a suburb of sheff or donny. Town centre is disappearing. Sad...