Quote Originally Posted by Trefor View Post
I grew up in the area too. I was born in London, but my parents moved me to Scunthorpe when I was a baby (Father got a job at the steelworks - another example of a declined industry), we then moved a rural village called Westwoodside near Epworth when I was a teenager. Yep, Doncaster is a pretty depressing area, but to be honest no different to other areas with similar backgrounds. You get the same thing across the world - where towns once prospered and then fell into a state of 'disrepair'. Even in the UK you can see examples where the woollen mills were during the industrial revolution.

RickyR - have you tried Robin Hood International Airport? sounds posh until you realise it is Finningley :-)
I know Westwoodside very well. I've used Robin Hood a few times on commercial aircraft and found it fine. Also flown in and out a lot in light aircraft as recently as last summer (also from Sandtoft).