Buskers, Street Entertainers in Doncaster, South Yorkshire*

Places to find public entertainment

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• we call them muggers
• BARE NUCKLE FIGHTER TERRY SHENTON ORWIN LATE 1970 FOUGHT FRANCE,JERSEY,LONDON,SWEDEN THEN LEFT THE FIGHT GAME SON OF ANNIE SHENTON FOUGHT UNDER THE FAMILY ORWIN NAME BOXERS FROM DONCASTER
• JAMES ALEXANDRA ROBINSON ROBBO!!! OF DONCASTER KNOWN AS THE DONCASTER GIRL FIGHTER !!!
• the best street entertainers that have performed in doncaster town centre are definately the classical pop group from hull called ti amero .they are fantastic singers and have great personalities .
• Dave Genders - the first man to get a parking ticket from nigel mansall, also top chef to norman "doonut" wisdom. If you have one daves got 2 or his grandad has or his dad had 3 or his cousin's got a blue one.
• donny is full of entertaining winos and skitzoids
• Doncaster is probably most (in)famous for its sheer number of scrunchy-wearing, Rockport-clad 14 year old "mums", pushing (no, mostly dragging) their poor little scrogs along the streets of Doncaster in their stolen buggies/prams/push chairs/Sainsburys' shopping trolleys.... On a recent trip back to this upstanding example of a British town, I counted no less than 8 teenage mums (all, might I add, wearing those horrendous stripey jumpers and several with bull dogs in tow) merely along a strip of 5 shops in a local district! Go there yourself to witness this social phenomenon, unique to the streets of Doncaster!
• Doncaster is probably most (in)famous for its sheer number of scrunchy-wearing, Rockport-clad 14 year old "mums", pushing (no, mostly dragging) their poor little scrogs along the streets of Doncaster in their stolen buggies/prams/push chairs/Sainsburys' shopping trolleys.... On a recent trip back to this upstanding example of a British town, I counted no less than 8 teenage mums (all, might I add, wearing those horrendous stripey jumpers and several with bull dogs in tow) merely along a strip of 5 shops in a local district! Go there yourself to witness this social phenomenon, unique to the streets of Doncaster!
• only the usual loons in doncaster market and the flute player who has been playing 'the great escape' for three years without fail...
• You get ,lots of funny people hanging about HMV shouting about God and if you want a laugh, have a proper kiss snog with someone in front of them. They go crazy and shout about having no morals and then go on about morality and underage sex. It's funny as hell.
• in donni their is this stupid woman who thins i iz gonna give ere money but instead i give ere a chuddi or a chip or summets
• "Alanda loopy" the local man trap famouse for her ability to get free drinks all night from un suspecting lone gents!!
• The old girl who sells the news papers on Hallgate,she has been there as long as i can remember & whos voice cuts through you like a knife (papers cum & get yu papers)
• The loon who dances to music.
• You,ve got to admit that Donny is a bit confused! Maybee it's somthing to do with been cought in the North, South divide but after living there 4 18 years i know it well. The people seem to think that wearing loads of fake gold, rockport's and strippy jumpers makes you a bad boy, and that if u can put a spoiler on your grandad's metro, your the hottest kid in town! Not only is the fasion sense non existant, the pub and club scene consist of jumped up teenaged booy's jumping aroung to the likes of Castle's in the Sky!!!! No house to be found here! My addvice, save the greif and scrub it off the map!
• All the subways have now gone so we don't get so much beggin' - there is a lass plays a fiddle near Next - she is saving for university
• theres a tramp on a bike. says hello one minute then slags u off to y face next.
• that dude that sell 5 lighters for a pound usually round the market or around binns
• The 'hello' and 'G'day' in afarmer accent BIG ISSUE man outside dixons on the high street has now moved on sadly!! He will be missed, A close friend said he was in sheffield city centre.. gonna check out the profile on sheffield to see if hes been mentioned!!
• Everywhere, but they're all kewl. especially like the guys that sell big issue they cheer every1 up
• theres this old ladie who follows you around asking for money but she always just makes me laugh!also the guy who sells "10 gas lighters for a pound...10 for a pound your gas lighters" i think he has the loudest voice of all the market folk!
• Now if some of those 'professional beggars' that seem to have been here for years sang a tune now and again people may take more notice of them. Anyone can miss shaving for a few days, tog up in Oxfam's best and sit in a subway asking for spare change - but is it entertainment?
• The 'happy' guy selling the Big Issue outside Dixons is fun to listen to and watch - just try and get past ignoring him
• There is one guy that stands outside Dixons all day. I remember he used to busk at Sheffield Hallam University. But he seems to have moved to the streets of Donny!
• I can see one gentle who used to dance with his CD Player outside the frenchgate centre, and he seems enjoy it, but everytime people were throw him a penny or rubbish.
• The now almost famous "hello" bloke tends to stand outside dixons by the frenchgate centre and sells the big issue in a most unusual way, he just shouts hello or good morning at people possibly the happiest big issue seller i have ever met
• cant remember his name - he is cool though - plays all sorts of stuff taught me 2play radiohead, high & dry
• There's getting more and more in Doncaster, with those pipe blowers in the Town centre on a Saterday afternoon, you know the ones that go to every Town or City centre in south yorkshire.
• The subways are more the preserve of beggars than entertainers these days.
• ARE ALL CRAP!
• In the subway between the Frenchgate Centre and the Railway station. Usually a bit crap, and always have a sad-looking mongrel with them.
• Usually to be found in the Subways that link the bus and train stations. Although on Market days they can often be found outside M&S competing with the blokes selling "lighters 10 for a £1" and some other blokes trying to convince everyone that Jesus lives and that we are all going to die and go to hell if we don't stop and listen to them. I'm afraid that 90% of Donny's population is probably in the fast line straight there then !!!

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Last updated: 2010-09-21