Doncaster Times Issue 1 - June 2016
Doncaster Times is a biannual publication of articles and pieces researched and written by members of the public, volunteers and professionals. For its first four years, the magazine will feature articles about Doncaster during the First World War, to commemorate the centenary. The most recent publication is available in hard copy only, available to purchase from Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Doncaster Central Library and the Tourist Information Centre.
Doncaster Times is a biannual publication of articles and pieces researched and written by members of the public, volunteers and professionals. For its first four years, the magazine will feature articles about Doncaster during the First World War, to commemorate the centenary. The most recent publication is available in hard copy only, available to purchase from Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Doncaster Central Library and the Tourist Information Centre.
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school. On 29 July 1914, six days before Britain<br />
went to war, the concert featured ballads sung<br />
by Sanderson’s pupil, baritone Topless Green.<br />
He was to be gassed on the Western Front but<br />
survived to be Director of Singing Studies at the<br />
Royal College of Music and to build a respected<br />
career as concert singer and recording artist. The<br />
Shakespeare in 1914 was a Midsummer Nights’<br />
Dream with some of Mendelssohn’s music and<br />
Sanderson’s specially composed ‘the Ouzel Cock’.<br />
Philip L Scowcroft<br />
In <strong>June</strong> 1916, the students of the Girls<br />
High School sent 300 eggs to the<br />
Arnold Hospital, Thorne Road<br />
for the wounded soldiers<br />
recovering there.<br />
The girls regularly supported<br />
the hospitals of <strong>Doncaster</strong> as<br />
well as sending packages out<br />
to Prisoners of War and raising<br />
money for various funds.<br />
By kind permission of Malcolm Johnson<br />
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