David of Doncaster dark hair long since Royal Foresters cut off his ears. David of Doncaster David of Doncaster is a member of Robin Hood's Merry Men in English folklore. Doncaster is a town near Barnsdale, where early ballads placed Robin Hood. He appears in one ballad in the Child collection, "Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow". The sheriff is giving an archery contest, and David, "a brave young man," warns Robin against going, because it is a trap. He reappears in later adaptations, both books and movies. In Howard Pyle's "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood", he appears as one of the
Transport in Doncaster operated buses in and around Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield. The company was sold to its employees in 1993, and it became Mainline Group Limited. It was bought by FirstGroup in 1998, at first operating as First Mainline but now operating as First South Yorkshire. SYT's head office was located on Amos Road in Meadowhal] and at the time of the company's formation its central works was located on Queens Road in Sheffield, although this later closed. They also have bases at all 4 major interchanges in South Yorkshire, the Frenchgate Interchange being one of those. Buses in Doncaster were