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  • Joe Naisbitt on Memories of St. Philips approx 1967

    22/09/2021
    Sister Mary Phillamena was also at St Philip Neri. Sister Mary Peter was Deputy Head at St Bedes, she was...

  • t.r.white on Marketeers Jazz Band

    19/09/2021
    Malcolm Bowring had a lot to do with the band

  • Cathy Bennett on Robert Farrow – Local Amateur Artist

    18/09/2021
    Jenny Wright, sorry just saw this comment about Robert. I'm in Australia so I cant join the Library but would...

  • Bassibe on Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ Grammar School

    17/09/2021
    Hi all old girls! Stephanie Bassibe, (née Wheatley), same class as Debra Warren (later to become head girl) Julie Wright,...

  • Thom Kay on Brunts 1980s

    17/09/2021
    A fascinating read! I went to Brunts from 1997-2002 (starting as a year 9 and continuing through to year 13)...

  • Thom Kay on Memories of Stockwell Gate

    17/09/2021
    I can't imagine Stockwell Gate looking like an actual road. I worked for F.A Henshaw's House Furnishers, just a few...

  • Keith McEwan on Sherwood Hall Technical Grammar School For Boys

    15/09/2021
    I remember this picture well - it was my first year, one of the sprogs. I'm on picture 3, first...

  • Connor Moore on Poets Corner.

    14/09/2021
    Amazing to hear everyone's stories! It would be interesting to know if anybody knew a Brian Moore or Susan Carr?...

  • David Howse on Herbert (Bert) Cutts, Photographer

    14/09/2021
    I have an original mounted photograph taken by H.Cutts of Warsop dated 1902.It is of a stackyard fire at Moorfield...

  • Ruth Sullivan on Mansfield (Crown Farm) Colliery

    11/09/2021
    I’m looking to find out any info about my father, Michael Pye, who worked in one of the Mansfield collieries...

  • Jane Beasley on Broomhill School

    31/08/2021
    Chad no 7673 I believe maybe me, at the front on the right, with the short blond hair and striped...

  • Steve walker on James Maude Sherwood Foundry

    30/08/2021
    I worked as a fettler for about 14 years, then had a couple of years in the foundry. Great bunch...

  • Tim Conway on Broomhill Junior School.

    27/08/2021
    I have just discovered this page, wow some memories came flooding back. I started in the Broomhill infants in 64/65...

  • John riggs on Broomhill and rosemary school’s in the fifties

    25/08/2021
    Went there in 1963-4, came from Scotland, worst school ever, eventually went to Ladybrook, much more civilised. Visited Mansfield last...

  • John riggs on Salvation Army

    25/08/2021
    My father Sam Riggs transferred from Kirkcaldy Sinclairton in 1963. My brother, also Sam, were taught to play the cornet...

  • Malcolm Coomber on Ravensdale School.

    25/08/2021
    I remember Stuart very well Tracey. He was in my class along with Brian Placket and Philip Allsop to name...

  • Tracey Key on Ravensdale School.

    25/08/2021
    Both my husband and I went to Ravensdale years apart! We met at work some years later. Stuart Key and...

  • Jason on Mansfield Drinks

    23/08/2021
    I always thought Mandora was on Great Central Road in the early 80s and then moved to Bellamy Road?

  • Pauline Marples on West Notts Teacher Training Awards – Were You There?

    21/08/2021
    I have just found a Chad newspaper cutting which included this photograph and included in the caption is ' Among...

  • Nigel Wolden on Stockwell Gate 1970’s

    19/08/2021
    Believe the Crown was accessed by the authorities recently to sort out the cannabis growth going on inside!! Used it...

  • Ann Driver on The CO-OP Dairy

    13/08/2021
    Loved reading the comments about the co-op dairy, brought back fond memories of our milkman Denis on the George Street...

  • Trevor Randall on Broomhill and rosemary school’s in the fifties

    09/08/2021
    Broomhill School headmaster was Mr. Burton, far right in the picture. The third boy on his left I think is...

  • Sylvia Shaw ( neé Sommeling) on Brunts School Song

    08/08/2021
    I so enjoyed your rendition of our old school song. I remember Miss Watkinson very vividly. She was Mr Priestley's...

  • Sylvia Shaw on Farmilo school award winning choir.

    07/08/2021
    I recognise so many of the names here. Miss Farmilo was a wonderful head mistress. Loved her to bits. I...
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  • Ladies of Sporty Mansfield in the late forties

    17/09/2021
    After a recent family bereavement I have found these two photo’s of Sporty Mansfield. I haven’t seen them before and ...

  • Can you help date and identify these images

    13/09/2021
      The Old Mansfield Society are looking for help in identifying where these images were taken and the date? can you ...

  • Quegs Chappell House 1948

    21/08/2021
    Robert (Bob) Bradley has brought us this photograph which may bring back memories of school days at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar ...

  • West Notts Teacher Training Awards - Were You There?

    28/07/2021
    Were you an Adult Education Teacher in 1989 and did the Teacher Training Certificate? Are you on this photograph? I ...
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