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  • alan curtis on The Beginning of Quarry Lane.

    09/12/2018
    Apart from Bradder Street and the church on the tippin , just about everything was built with stone on the...

  • Gary Eaton on How were the shoes made?

    09/12/2018
    I’m sure the man in the third picture down is Alan he trained me on the Backforming machine,I can’t remember...

  • Gary Eaton on Mansfield Shoe Company

    09/12/2018
    I worked at the shoe company for only about 3 yrs my first job was redecorating managers office. I trained...

  • Steeve Cee. on Queen Elizabeths Boys School

    08/12/2018
    QEGS. Was this the motto:- ("Semper Eadem"), which means "always the same" 1. Has it changed? 2. Is the school...

  • Margaret Hoskison on Quarry Lane….Mansfield

    08/12/2018
    My husband's grandad, John Edward Sanders was born in 1900 at 22, Freestone Place. His parents were Phoebe and William...

  • Steeve Cee. on Sherwood Baths

    07/12/2018
    Made regular visits to the baths in the fifties, good times had by all including the 'snacks' in the pit...

  • Linda Tweedie on Doctor Norman Lancelot Tweedie

    05/12/2018
    Hallo Giles. My father, Dr Desmond Tweedie worked with his uncle Dr Lance Tweedie after completing his medical degree at...

  • Owen Harrison on Clumber Street 1939

    05/12/2018
    Very interesting article and comments! I lived in Sutton, but attended QEGS (now Queen Elizabeth's Academy) in the 1960's. I...

  • Steeve Cee. on The Newt Pond in the Old Sand Quarry.

    03/12/2018
    Straight along from the bridge led you along a stone chippings path to Gregory’s Quarry and huts, into the working...

  • Joy Pearson on Cycling Clubs

    03/12/2018
    I've just been talking to Alf Ball this morning (3.12.18) about his time with Mansfield Vics during the war years...

  • Mary on The End of the Line

    02/12/2018
    My great grand dad was same as Ben's so it will be an interesting read as I have got old...

  • Glenn Sutcliffe on Blackgate Yard, Mansfield Woodhouse,

    02/12/2018
    Hello Steve, Uncle Podda or Rodney or Rod, still lives in Woodhouse. Rhoda, George's wife, moved with the children back...

  • Steeve Cee on Mansfield Regent Street

    01/12/2018
    That 'Express Removal' vehicle to the left of the bottom picture looks very much like one of the Armstrong Furniture...

  • Steeve Cee on Landers

    29/11/2018
    Landers had smallish pale blue Thames vans back in the early sixties. They were sign written in white. They were...

  • Hazzer on Brunts or Queen Elizabeths?

    28/11/2018
    Definitely Brunts science block. The stones on each corner had slight decorative spaces between them. In 1964ish, Gareth Butcher became...

  • Christine Holmes on Clumber Street 1939

    25/11/2018
    My father was John Hammill who owned and ran The Vac Shop on Clumber Street, where Wilcos now stands. I...

  • David Coxon on Mansfield Fire Station

    25/11/2018
    Carmela, are you referring to Colin Shakespeare? He is still living in Beeston where he served under your dad when...

  • Paul Plaskett on West Lodge Cottage Home for Children

    23/11/2018
    I am so pleased to have found this page. I was a child at West Lodge for a couple of...

  • veemauve on Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital

    22/11/2018
    If anyone is interested in looking at material relating to Harlow Wood Hospital from my mother (Barbara Fent)'s time there,...

  • Steeve Cee on The Field?

    22/11/2018
    All interesting stuff and yes I did manage a visit during the Summer of this year, regrettably no photos however....

  • Stuart Mallinder on Sherwood Colliery Welfare

    21/11/2018
    I moved to Sherwood Rise in 1958 when my father Frank Mallinder became Assistant Manager at Sherwood Colliery. My brother...

  • Alex Tomlinson on Mansfield Special Constables 1940’s

    20/11/2018
    Hello Alan, Thats a fine picture you've put up there. My Great Grandfather was a 'special' around that time. Would...

  • John on The CO-OP Dairy

    19/11/2018
    Reading through the comments brought back many happy memories of my time there. Many thanks. I will try and add...

  • Marion Rutherford née Stow on Turning Back the Pages in Ravenshead

    19/11/2018
    As a child I remember going with my grandparents Jesse and Beatrice Stow to the little chapel on Chapel Lane....
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  • Christmas 1937 - - Going to the Cinema

    01/12/2018
    A look at Mansfield Cinemas Christmas 1937

  • Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital

    14/11/2018
    Three more photographs from the hospital at Harlow Wood.

  • Photos of Christmas 1942, Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital

    14/11/2018
    These are two fantastic photographs from the celebration of Christmas at Harlow Wood Hospital in 1942.

  • Old Mansfield Society Books

    09/11/2018
    A selection of local history books published by the Old Mansfield Society are back by popular demand.  The Grace of ...
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