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  • philip tatley on LANDERS BAKERY .

    20/10/2021
    All the local pubs had heated cabinets on the bars and sold Landers Cornish Pasties which smelled and tasted wonderful....

  • alan wahlers on James Maude Sherwood Foundry

    19/10/2021
    Does anyone know what happened to the archives, i.e. records, drawings, etc. when the foundry closed? Have they been saved...

  • philip tatley on Buildings in Mansfield

    19/10/2021
    Photo no.5 is indeed James's Yard. Henry Potts undertakers was on the right of the picture, the stone buildings on...

  • Joan Staff on Scrap or Rag and Bone Man

    18/10/2021
    Looking for Pedleys, scrap metal merchants in or around Mansfield. My friend was a Pedley called Kathleen, she will be...

  • philip tatley on Church across from the Empire Picture place

    18/10/2021
    Can anyone remember the wooden gate to the Toc H at the side of the Empire, and the stone steps...

  • Robert Bradley on Early 50s at Queen Elizabeth’s

    18/10/2021
    Addendum to above … sadly my wife Mary died 28 December 2020 … aged 82. Also made contact with Jim...

  • Keith on The Old Workhouse

    14/10/2021
    I was born in the Victoria Hospital in the late 1950s and went to Infants & Junior School at Moor...

  • philip tatley on A Daily Mail Game

    13/10/2021
    I too have a photo card showing competitors with the Daily Mail ball. My dad is on the photo looking...

  • philip tatley on Old Mansfield Bottles

    13/10/2021
    I too have a green Hornby Eclipse bottle dug up by my grandad who was the gardener at Lyndhurst Farm...

  • Richard Ward on My Family

    09/10/2021
    Just stumbled upon this page. Would the Cowpes living near Stoneyford Farm be Harold and his wife? I worked with...

  • David Holt on Memories of Stockwell Gate

    07/10/2021
    Hi Glenn, the shop probably did move location as most of the items we bought would have been around 1974,...

  • Glenn Sutcliffe on York Street Secondary, Mansfield Woodhouse.

    07/10/2021
    Hi Phil, I remember your name, I think that we were in the same class. During my time at Yorke...

  • Glenn Sutcliffe on Memories of Stockwell Gate

    07/10/2021
    Hi Dave, Cornucopia was definitely a few doors up from the Crowne in 1970- 71. In late 71 I left...

  • Glenn Sutcliffe on Memories of Stockwell Gate

    07/10/2021
    Hi David, Perhaps I got the name of the shop wrong, it is a long time ago, but the shop...

  • Susan Vallance Warren on The Hermitage Mystery

    05/10/2021
    Col. J.N. Vallance was my father. We moved to The Hermitage in December 1938. We were leasing it from the...

  • David Holt on Memories of Stockwell Gate

    05/10/2021
    Glenn, I bought a number of items from Cornucopia back in the 1970's and we still have them. Although I...

  • Glenn Sutcliffe on Streets of Mansfield Woodhouse

    04/10/2021
    Regarding Rouse & Sons. My father, Alan Sutcliffe served his time there as an apprentice plumber in the 1950's. He...

  • Glenn Sutcliffe on Memories of Stockwell Gate

    04/10/2021
    In the early 70's, just out of shot of this picture was a shop called Cornucopia which sold imported ethnic...

  • Glenn Sutcliffe on Stockwell Gate 1970’s

    04/10/2021
    I was a regular from 1970 until 1978. The Crowne was a great place during the late 60's and much...

  • Bob Todd on Palais de Dance

    03/10/2021
    I played the Palais 7 times and here are the dates and the band, 29/04/1966 (Carl Pagan and the Heathens)....

  • Ian Gregory on Windmill Ridge School play

    03/10/2021
    Not Gilbert and Sullivan, it's Slade and Reynolds. Dresses made by Mrs Bramley (Home economics), mortar boards by Mrs Joyce...

  • Ian Gregory on Windmill Ridge School Musical 1980

    03/10/2021
    Have a few more names for you. Jo Troop, Vicki Green, Diana ??

  • Jenny Wright on Mystery Photograph – Boys Brigade/ St John’s/ Colliery Band or ??

    27/09/2021
    The medals Charles is wearing are the British War Medal and Victory Medal, both awarded for his service during World...

  • Robert Bennett on Mystery Photograph – Boys Brigade/ St John’s/ Colliery Band or ??

    27/09/2021
    Further to my last, I omitted to mention that the identification of his role is further corroborated by the drummer's...
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  • C0-0P Board of Management Circa 1963

    18/10/2021
    Photograph taken from a Celebration Booklet of Mansfield Sutton & District c0-operative Society ltd 100 Years Young

  • Daily Mail Ball Game ?Titchfield Park

    18/10/2021
    Philip Tatley sent us this photo of the Daily Mail Ball game after seeing a similar page on our site, ...

  • Clipstone Colliery 1947 - Vesting Day Celebrations

    05/10/2021
    David E. has recently discovered this interesting booklet that was issued by the Clipstone Branch of the National Union of ...

  • 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 ...
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