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  • Dorothy Csehi. (nee Waterfield) on A-Z of Forest Town History

    21/10/2020
    A-Z of the History of Forest Town, another excellent publication. Being a Forest Town girl, born & bred, the memories...

  • Steeve Cee on Old Radcliffe Gate early 70’s

    21/10/2020
    Another interesting picture, I know the area well having walked up and down Ratcliffe Gate many times. Turn right onto...

  • Mr.G .Burton on Stockwell Gate 1970’s

    19/10/2020
    Thank you for your comments Steeve, think it is still there, and I'm sure like yourself the Mansfield folk too...

  • Belinda Copson on Memories of St. Philips approx 1967

    18/10/2020
    I was at St Philips from 1969 onwards. I think the nun in the picture is Sister Assumpta. The story...

  • Martin Spencer on Penford’s Mill North West Morris.

    17/10/2020
    My wife Kate Spencer, who was also a teacher at St Edmunds School, was a dancer in Penford's Mill... also...

  • Mrs Carol Brown on Westgate, Mansfield

    17/10/2020
    I have had reason to look through some of my old photographs and found one of my very handsome Dad,...

  • Steeve Cee on Stockwell Gate 1970’s

    16/10/2020
    Yes it goes back a long time gents, and originally called 'Ye Olde Crown Hostelry'. The word 'Hostelry' can just...

  • Suzanne Lee on Carter Lane School

    16/10/2020
    My late mother would have been at Carter Lane school in 1940, she would have been 10 years old, her...

  • Mr Graham Burton (former Woodus Lad) on Stockwell Gate 1970’s

    15/10/2020
    Hi David, yes I think it was the "Crown Hostel" pub all those years ago. Don't know if it is...

  • Mr Graham Burton (former Woodus Lad) on Old Radcliffe Gate early 70’s

    15/10/2020
    To those Mansfield folk, please excuse typing error, it was and still is "Ratcliffe Gate"

  • Michael Parkin on Old Radcliffe Gate early 70’s

    14/10/2020
    Hello Pauline, The bridge that is seen being demolished carried the great Central Line over Ratcliffe Gate ( not Radcliffe)...

  • David Holt on Old Stockwell Gate before demolition

    14/10/2020
    Thanks Alan, the memory hasn't clicked in yet, and my sister (now 78 & 8 years older then me) shopped...

  • David Holt on Stockwell Gate 1970’s

    14/10/2020
    Graham, is the Mock Tudor building you can see in the distance a pub called The Crown? I remember going...

  • Graham Burton(former Woodus. Lad) on Old Radcliffe Gate early 70’s

    13/10/2020
    Hi Pauline, it was in this era when they took the bridge down if I remember, think diverted the traffic...

  • Pauline Marples on Old Radcliffe Gate early 70’s

    13/10/2020
    Graham, what is happening on the bridge?

  • Mrs D McGhee on Art Jacobs

    11/10/2020
    I met Ron Lindsay, (Jimmy Crawford,) at the Lacarno in Sheffield in 1960. I started a fan club for him...

  • Alan Bridges on Old Stockwell Gate before demolition

    11/10/2020
    Hello David, I have several photos of this area of Stockwell Gate in the sixties. There is the Wheatsheaf pub...

  • ian yates on Memories of the Saturday Market Pea Stall Part 2

    10/10/2020
    I knew Bill and Maureen from a young age, Bill was a very clever man, they were a lovely couple....

  • Julie Spencer on Newgate Lane School

    08/10/2020
    Just looking through this again, Julie Hackett as was, my parents had a shop on Pelham Street. Mostly happy memories...

  • David Cartwright on Mansfield Sea Cadets

    08/10/2020
    I went to some fantastic places with the Cadets. I remember going to Portsmouth on a P.T.I. course and to...

  • David Cartwright on Mansfield Sea Cadets

    08/10/2020
    I was in the Marine Cadets serving at TS Prince Charles in the mid 1960's. It's great to see the...

  • David Cartwright on Rosemary Street School

    07/10/2020
    Hi Christine Gant I'm still alive and kicking. Some of the teachers when we were at Rosemary were Mr Hatfield,...

  • Maureen Burch on The History of Mansfield Shoe Co

    04/10/2020
    I worked at Mansfield shoe shop on Clumber street in Nottingham in the 1980s.

  • Ruth Hale on Brunts School

    04/10/2020
    I attended Brunts from 1965 to 1970. I also live in Tasmania like David Brainy Brelsford, small world. Mr Priestley...
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  • Old Radcliffe Gate early 70's

    13/10/2020
    Old Radcliffe Gate, Mansfield,  as people may remember this area taken early 70’s .

  • Stockwell Gate 1970's

    13/10/2020
    Old Stockwell Gate around early 70’s from ones collection, looking down towards the Co-operative building .

  • A-Z of Forest Town History

    25/09/2020
    Many months ago an idea for a book  on the A-Z of Forest Town History was put to members of ...

  • Brunts Grammar School Under 15s Football Team

    25/09/2020
    The attached photograph is of the Brunts Grammar School Under 15’s eleven football team taken in 1954. Some of the names ...
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