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Where four Doncaster roads meet

            Google Maps refreshes my memory from over a half a century ago, showing that I am standing in St. Sepulchre Gate, in the heart of Doncaster. An orange and black Triumph Herald emerges at the left from French Gate, while a Doncaster Corporation Transport bus makes a left turn from High Street, at the start of its journey to Hyde Park. Beyond the junction, St. Sepulchre Gate becomes Baxter Gate. The entire area is pedestrianised today.

The Clock Corner building catches the eye. It was occupied by a branch of the retail jewellery chain, Ratner’s - a company that effectively committed commercial suicide when its chairman Gerald Ratner publicly declared that his wares were “crap.” The 1 Clock Corner site is currently occupied by a convenience store, Four Seasons.

The Midland Bank of 1897 is a splendid building and continues to serve Doncastrians in its present guise as HSBC.

The bus is a Leyland RTC1 Royal Tiger Cub, a rare breed for which Doncaster Corporation was the sole UK customer. This was one of a small batch new in 1965 with a conservatively-styled Roe dual-doorway body. The RTC1 was in effect a lightweight PSUC1 Tiger Cub chassis fitted with a beefier Leyland 0.600 engine, sold mainly in Australia and New Zealand.

One must wonder why DCT selected the Royal Tiger Cub when Leyland Motors already offered the lighter L1/PSU4 versions of the Leyland Leopard to an almost identical mechanical specification. Did the thrifty folk in the Doncaster Corporation Transport Department get wind of a cancelled export order and persuade Leyland Motors to sell the RTC1 chassis at a bargain price?

Doncaster was sufficiently happy with the deal to come back with a second order for the Royal Tiger Cub, fulfilled with updated Roe bodywork in 1967/68.

October 1970
Boots Instamatic camera
Gratispool colour slide film.

Taken on: August 20, 2023

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Camera: Apple iPhone 11, f/1.8, 1/120 sec, 4.2mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Apple iPhone 11
Aperture:	f/1.8
Exposure Time:	0.008 sec (1/120)
Focal Length:	4.2mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	16.6
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