Location of Clarence Hotel

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  1. Gordon Owen

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    A thread on here not long since saying they thought it was where the bus stop is across from the Manx. This picture might help, looks like it was where the roundabout is. Screenshot_20190302-201805_Gallery.jpg
     
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    I'm sure there was one in Middlesbrough.
     
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    I love old photos like this. Thank you for posting it, old mate.
     
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    It's hard to believe it's the same road, things have changed so much. It also looks a lot steeper than it is now.
     
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    I'd say it was probably more like where the central reservation is now, considering the narrowness of the road on the photo. Manx Arms.jpg
     
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    It was number 27 so further down than the manx, look at the top left of this image and it shows you where 28 was. Manx is across from number 41. Screenshot_20190302-211002_Gallery.jpg
     
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    Screenshot_20190302-211546_Gallery.jpg Another image
     
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    It looks like it was roughly where the Alhambra Centre is now. You can see the Wigfalls building and the roundabout beyond in this photo.

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    Noticed the name Wigfalls in the above image. I wonder if there was any connection with a furniture
    store on Silver Street Doncaster, called Barker and Wigfalls.? Used to sell top quality gear. Some years
    later along with Steadmans Taxi office and St Peter in Chains Catholic Church the shop was demolished to
    make way for one of the biggest offices in the Town the DHSS ( which locals christened the Dole office.)
     
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    Wigfalls was a TV and Electrical store. They had branches all over the place.
     
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    Wigfalls sold/rented TV's etc
     
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    I'd agree with that. Needs a plaque, we're supposed to be promoting a community club, there's no museum or anything.
     
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    Wigfalls also had a shop towards the bottom on Racecommon Road. It was on the right as you went up.
     
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    Remember buying computer games from Micro Fun that was in that row of shops where the wigfalls is on the photos
     
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    Micro Fun! Great little computer shop. I got most of my Commodore 16 games from there.
     
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    Barnsley always looks better - looking to me in those days and before. God knows what the council were doing when they demolished the older buildings
     
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    Anyone have a guess where this is?

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    Sure that’s the Changes on left just before railings
     
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    My Dad used to own the shop next to the Clarence although the hotel had gone by the time he bought it. He had a bathroom shop there but the council compulsory purchased it and the business off him when they built the Alambrah. Spent many a school holiday working there selling bathrooms :) (and going into MicroFun)
     
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    My granddad always told me to get off the bus there and never to ride all the way through to the bus station. The nearest thing I had to a sex education in them days.
     
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