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  • Julie Johnson (née Musgrove) on Mansfield Woodhouse Parish Church

    11/07/2020
    Does anyone have any old Parish magazines from the mid 60s-early 70s? We lived on St Edmunds Avenue. My mum,...

  • Pamela Key on 1965/6 Happy Singing Days

    10/07/2020
    I'm not in the photograph but I thought her name was Mrs Shrives? I don't remember her too well as...

  • Sam Jennings on Pleasley Vale

    10/07/2020
    I lived in Pleasley Vale when I was a child. I lived in 'The Bungalow' that was in between Bernard...

  • Wendy Collens on Mystery School Photo

    10/07/2020
    Just to add, my a Mum Ivy Wilkinson was married at St Edmunds Church on the 25th January 1941 to...

  • kerry on Mystery Building in Forest Town

    06/07/2020
    When I was in my teens a homeless man used to live in there. Me and my friend would go...

  • Steeve Cee on Memories of cycle/motorbike training

    05/07/2020
    Thanks Alan, all interesting stuff, and yes the BSA's and Enfield's had a well deserved reputation and still do after...

  • Patricia Marriott on Whiteley Electrical Radio Co Ltd

    05/07/2020
    Hi Nick, Patricia Marriott here, Tony Marriott’s wife. I worked in assembly C with Frank Hurt as my boss. I...

  • Brian Sparke on Doctor Sparke

    03/07/2020
    Are there any photographs of Dr George Whitfield Sparke - the subject of this article?

  • Patricia Campion then on Whiteleys, Victoria Street.

    02/07/2020
    I worked at Whitley's from 1956/1962, Roland Vamplew was my supervisor then, I also worked on a production line that...

  • Patricia Campion (then) on High Oakham School

    01/07/2020
    Don't know if anyone still reads these comments, I only came across this article on 1.07.2020 looking for something. I...

  • Patricia Campion on Memories of High Oakham School by Ann Topham (nee) early 60’s)

    01/07/2020
    I went to High Oakham school in the early 1950's, remember Miss Weddle to this day and Mr Bollands, the...

  • Patricia Davies on Cupits Shop Clipstone – Then & Now

    01/07/2020
    I lived in Lime Grove, Forest Town, but prior to that lived with my parents on Beaumont Avenue off Big...

  • Patricia Campion on Clipstone Lido Aerial View

    01/07/2020
    Lived on Newlands Drive used to go to the Lido every chance we could used to be a crowd of...

  • Patricia Campion on Memories of Mansfield Cinemas

    01/07/2020
    Hi Lived on Chesterfield Road North from 1953/1967,and used to go with my sister to the Ritz, brilliant crowd, miss...

  • Miss Jean Widdowson on Carter Lane Infants School

    30/06/2020
    Hello, I have a photo almost exactly the same, only with me at the bottom (I was scared of heights)....

  • Alan Bridges on Memories of cycle/motorbike training

    29/06/2020
    Hello Steve. In response to your last comments. My dad was in the Royal Engineers during the war, 1940 to...

  • Anthony owen on Queen Elizabeth Grammar School

    29/06/2020
    As a pupil until 1958, I recall the geography room was at the foot of the stairs on the left...

  • Michael Holehouse on West Lodge

    29/06/2020
    Agness Holehouse was my dad's sister from Victoria Street, Mansfield. I was in West Lodge in 1969, only have one...

  • Mark Wilson on Palais de Dance

    26/06/2020
    It's very interesting that people remember so much about the Palais, I've a quantity of records of band stuff, payments...

  • Editors on Leeming Street by Georgia Leeming Age 10

    26/06/2020
    Well done Georgia, Pauline Marples

  • Jenny Wright on Forest Town Miners Hostel 1944 – 1959

    25/06/2020
    My husband's grandparents lived in a small holding off Abbott Road and the Bevin Boys camp was situated at the...

  • Editors on Forest Town Miners Hostel 1944 – 1959

    25/06/2020
    Does anyone know exactly where the Abbott Road Miners was ? My Polish father , Rudolph Golabowski lived there until...

  • Stuart Johnstone on Sherwood Hall Technical Grammar School For Boys

    22/06/2020
    John, Is Dave still practising? He must be 75 or 76 if he´s a day. Hope he can keep the...

  • Steeve Cee on Memories of cycle/motorbike training

    22/06/2020
    Hello again Alan, yes your Dad would also have been aware of and known Frank Inger who had premises on...
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  • Cumberland Sec Mod School Adventures

    10/07/2020
    Cumberland’s Secondary Modern School School Trip to Germany 1970/71. The trip took in many beautiful historic sights including a day ...

  • Mystery School Photo

    09/07/2020
    Wendy Collens has sent us this photograph with her mum Ivy Wilkinson on it, hoping someone might recognise the school. ...

  • Leeming Street by Georgia Leeming Age 10

    26/06/2020

  • Broomhill school parents day in the fifties

    20/06/2020
    This is parents day at Broomhill, my late sister  Pamela Bridges, school in the early/ mid fifties. I went to ...
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