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Doncaster’s history stretches back nearly two thousand years but the modern town has little in the way of physical heritage. Few northern settlements affected by industrialisation have retained many buildings from earlier periods besides their parish churches, but a disastrous fire in 1853 robbed Doncaster of even that building and its evidence of antiquity. Eighteenth- and 20th-century redevelopments further depleted the slender legacy of buildings the town had acquired, yet there remains much of interest and value, not least in the spine that runs from the racecourse to the civic mansion house, which alerts both resident and visitor to the historic status of the town. This new comprehens...
Tips on living sober.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
What kind of women play football? Factory workers, bank clerks, policewomen, students and shop assistants, they come together on a Sunday united by a passion for the game all too woefully absent from the money-drenched circus of professional sport. Fired by a Collective clan, an infectious joie de vivre, over the past dozen years the Doncaster Belles have been successful beyond the dreams of any other women's team. Pete Davies spends a season with the Belles - and finds a unique group of people with an abundance of talent, and a vividly earthy sense of humour. They play hard in the pit villages and nightclubs of South Yorkshire, they play hard on tatty pitches in run-down suburbs and industrial estates - but they play for love too, and to a standard that could convert the most blinkered chauvinist. At a time when more and more women are both watching and playing football, this club have been trailblazers; in this rich, diverting and passionate book, Davies make it plain why you too, once you've met them, will lose your heart to the Belles.