St Jude Hexthorpe Doncaster

[tim4sharon]

thankyou all for the information found, thats great,

best wishes  Tim

[MollyC]

Why did a couple from Eastbourne/London get married in Hexthorpe?  Was one or both involved in war work there?  Hexthorpe is a late 19th cent. suburb of terraces, sandwiched between the River Don and the Great Central railway line where it meets the Great North Eastern, just south of Doncaster station.  To the north of the housing was "The Plant" which was the GNER's huge engineering works behind the station.  During WW2 it was involved in manufacture of Horsa gliders.

Hexthorpe St Jude parish was formed out of Doncaster St James parish in 1893, which was itself created in 1858, financed by shareholders of the Great Northern and known as the "Plant Church".  This is the district c1955.  St Jude's church is at the junction of Hexthorpe Road and Shady Side; St James is east of the railway.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/189183375#zoom=5.6&lat=6903&lon=3447&layers=BT

c. 1901
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.0&lat=53.52037&lon=-1.14470&layers=168&b=ESRIWorld&o=100

[softly softly]

Think it may have been a military situation.

Scarbrough Barracks was a military installation near Hexthorpe in Doncaster that was in use during and after World War II.

SS

[hanes teulu]

His marriage item in the Middlesex County Times, 4 Oct 1952, refers to his being a despatch rider during the war.

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[MollyC]

I have now found Scarbrough Barracks, which was not in Hexthorpe, perhaps he was in ancillary accommodation.  It was to the east of the town centre, close to the Great North Road.  See
https://www.doncaster1914-18.org.uk/collections/getrecord/DONARC_DV2

It is shown on this map revised 1938
https://maps.nls.uk/view/125650204#zoom=4.6&lat=8711&lon=9862&layers=BT