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  • Jill Curtis on Moor Lane School. Mansfield

    20/10/2018
    I was at moor lane 19 64/ 70. My name was Jill Wood. The headmaster at the juniors was Mr...

  • Michael Parkin on Oriental Cafe, Mansfield

    19/10/2018
    Further to my article above regarding the Oriental Cafe. I have been looking through a copy of 'Bygone Mansfield in...

  • Keith Blythe on Sunday School Star Card

    19/10/2018
    I notice July and August days missing. Holidays away from home. but if you attended a local Sunday School their...

  • Janet Lockwood nee Golding on Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital

    17/10/2018
    I spent many years in and out of Mansfield General and Harlow Wood eventually having a operation by the wonderful...

  • Margaret Ann Lingard on The Rock House Families

    16/10/2018
    I am yet another descendant of John and Sarah Bramwell; their daughter Lydia Bramwell married William Lamb; their second daughter...

  • Jenny Wright on Poppy Display, Forest Town

    16/10/2018
    Well done to all for the beautiful display of poppies cascading down from the cross at the Methodist Church in...

  • Peter Bond on Moor Lane School 1963 Winning teams

    16/10/2018
    1963 was my 11 plus year ! I seem to recognise a few faces from both pictures but can’t recall...

  • Hazel McSweeney on Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital

    15/10/2018
    From 1977 I was treated at HW for scoliosis, inc. having a Harrington rod put in. The staff were all...

  • NEIL HAYES on High Oakham School

    15/10/2018
    I was at school at High Oakham from – 1949-1954 – and I well remember Clem Bark, Joyce Slack, (I...

  • Alan Egan on Pleasley 1906

    14/10/2018
    Message to Des Singleton, You say you worked in the maintenance dept, Do you remember a heavy cast sawbench in...

  • Mandy Beresford Warren on A Mansfield Poem

    14/10/2018
    That's lovely alan curtis xxx

  • Angela Roche on Mystery Leeming Street Building

    14/10/2018
    The building in question was used by the British Legion. It stood next to the Eagle Tavern on Leeming Street....

  • Rebecca Cooper on Mansfield Coal Miner to Chelsea Pensioner

    13/10/2018
    My father-in-law and his brother were fostered as children, from a Welsh mining , to a family in Mansfield some...

  • Lynne Cooper on Poppy Display, Forest Town

    13/10/2018
    When I drove past Forest Town Methodist Church this week and saw the poppy display on the cross I thought...

  • Lynne Cooper on Cycling at Forest Town Track

    13/10/2018
    Lovely to hear about the cycle track at Forest Town which I didn't know existed. Also I was surprised to...

  • David Holt on Sunday School Star Card

    12/10/2018
    Not in Mansfield but close by. I remember having a Star Card when I attended the Kirkby Park Methodist Church...

  • Cynthia Mortimer, nee Watson on Home Guard – Forest Town

    10/10/2018
    My granddad, William Harold Watson, is third from the left, bottom line. He lived with his wife Florence and sons...

  • Jane Mousley on Landers Bakery

    09/10/2018
    The gentleman on the left as you look at the photo his my Dad Frederick Roberts he worked there at...

  • Dave Gregory on Mystery Bridge

    08/10/2018
    I can remember the stone bridge over the flood Dyke but farther down from the crossroad bridge, it was used...

  • Dave Gregory on Mystery Trees

    07/10/2018
    Could the birch seeds have come with the American troops in the war , I know the American troops trained...

  • Dave Gregory on Crown Farm, Mansfield

    07/10/2018
    Yes I can remember the farm , shame its all gone now. Lower down from the farm on Eakring Road...

  • Ian White on Sherwood Hall Technical Grammar School For Boys

    06/10/2018
    Who knows where the time goes. I remember cross country running around Mansfield reservoir, I had 2 years in the...

  • Michael Parkin on Oriental Cafe, Mansfield

    06/10/2018
    My late maternal grandfather,Valentin Eugene Massot,was employed as a pastry chef at the Oriental Cafe. Born in France in 1872,...

  • Tuoni Newton on James Newton – Notts Hussars/Yeomanry

    06/10/2018
    My husband is Geoffrey Newton, born 1950 in Pleasley. The son of Frederick Walter Newton and Winifred Biggins. I wonder...
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  • Poppy Display, Forest Town

    12/10/2018
    These photographs reveal how members of Forest Town community helped to make the remembrance poppy display in the church garden

  • Mystery Leeming Street Building

    10/10/2018
    Mystery Leeming Street building.

  • Pierrots

    07/10/2018
    Pierrots – Hand written on back of this photo it says ‘St Alban’s Church Hall after we had raised stage and built ...

  • Sunday School Star Card

    06/10/2018
    Does anyone recall going to Sunday School and getting their Star Card stamped?  This usually resulted in being given a ...
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