Conisbrough Police Station

“A tithe barn used to stand where the Police Station is currently situated, and was used by vicars to store their tithes or tenth part of the produce which the farmers paid to the church.  It was burnt down in 1865.  Work on the Police Station began in the autumn of 1882 and was completed a year later.  The construction work was carried out by Masboro builder R. Snell.  Behind the dwelling house there are commodious prison cells.  The walls of the latter are nine inches thick and to make them totally secure…  The remaining buildings in the picture have either been demolished or converted for other purposes, a common fate which has befallen many old buildings in the Doncaster area.  The dwelling on the right was formerly one of a row of alms houses.  This building on the right was formerly one of row of alms houses.  In this picture it accommodates Tea Rooms.  This building together with those adjoining has since been demolished.  A property, formerly a vicarage, further down the road has recently become a nursing home.”

Quote from June and Tony Greathead (1990) ‘Photographs of Old Conisbrough’, p.29