• Skip to content
Our Mansfield & Area
Our community our heritage
  • Home
  • About
  • Places
  • People
  • Topics
  • Mysteries
  • Books to Buy
  • Contact us
  • Add your story
You are here: HomenextLatest comments

Latest comments

Here you can see a list of the most recently added comments on this site. You can add your own comments at the bottom of any page on the site.

  • Bill Sheffield on Queen Elizabeths Boys School

    18/01/2020
    David Taylor was my English Teacher from 1982 to 1984. He was the most motivational teacher that ever taught me....

  • J Hazard on Memories of the Saturday Market Pea Stall Part 2

    16/01/2020
    I'm related to the Peatmans/Hazards. J W H Peatman is my Great Grandad and Winifred and Mark Hazard are my...

  • roy entwistle on Co-op Dairy

    15/01/2020
    I was there at the same time, although left to join the Army in October 72, I worked with Jim...

  • Betty Leatherland on St Chad’s Pleasley Vale

    12/01/2020
    A very beautiful little church. Very ornate inside. Did you know that the church was originally built the other side...

  • Steeve Cee on Mansfield Sea Cadets

    12/01/2020
    Good pictures, fine body of men and happy memories for me way back in the mid '50's, when I was...

  • Steeve Cee on Mansfield Brewery

    08/01/2020
    Well saved! Great sign! It will live on forever I hope, I'll certainly drink to that! Will call in at...

  • Steeve Cee on Clumber Street from the 60’s/70’s

    08/01/2020
    There was a music shop there (musical instruments of all kinds), all top quality stuff, can't recall the name. Any...

  • josephine cairns on Clumber Street from the 60’s/70’s

    08/01/2020
    Regarding the photograph showing the shop owned by Julian Jelonek, the gents tailor, my husband recently purchased a lovely woollen...

  • Steeve Cee on Rushpool Farm

    07/01/2020
    I remember seeing Bowring trucks parked up in the area, more or less as mentioned above, I believe the vehicles...

  • Mark Wilson on The History of Mansfield Shoe Co

    06/01/2020
    One of the Royce family resided at the bungalow on the corner of Roebuck Dr, called Wrenbury, apparently when it...

  • Mark Wilson on Albert Street Shops

    05/01/2020
    I recall years ago in the row of shops on the left, past the Victoria pub, there were the council...

  • Rebecca Dean on Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital

    04/01/2020
    I too was a patient at Harlow Wood. I have congenital scoliosis and had spinal fusion at age 12 and...

  • Margo Lenney on Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital

    04/01/2020
    I was a student nurse at Harlow Wood. I arrived in 1966, qualified in 1968. I won the Matrons Prize...

  • Cindy Shelley on Gilcroft House

    03/01/2020
    According to the 1851 Census, my 2x Great Uncle, Richard Henry Millington was a pupil at Grove House Academy, age...

  • Pete on The Field?

    02/01/2020
    Hi, The name Jackson, I have seen this name on an Alan Godfrey map, I think it might have been...

  • Steeve Cee on Buildings in Mansfield

    02/01/2020
    There seems to be differences of opinion as to the location of the building in picture number one. Not surprising...

  • Steeve Cee on Mansfield Museum entrance

    01/01/2020
    Always interesting and memorable, good nostalgic photo. Back in the fifties the museum used to screen an occasional film of...

  • Andrew Wainman on Wainmans Bakery Mansfield

    01/01/2020
    Hi Nick Hemphill I have some documents and history related to Wainman’s Bakery, it was my Great Grandfather and then...

  • Andrew Naylor on James Maude Sherwood Foundry

    31/12/2019
    My dad Keith Naylor worked at James Maud foundry, always came home with a distinct smell of sulphur. I can...

  • Kev Wilkinson on The Co-op Bakery

    30/12/2019
    I worked at the Co-op bakery from about 1962 until I was made redundant. The bakery, the adjoining Co-op slaughter...

  • Steeve Cee on A Railway Enthusiast

    29/12/2019
    Lovely part of the world, know it well, interesting little rail trip into Holt and return. The seat looks new...

  • Steeve Cee on ‘Speculating’ in Mansfield

    29/12/2019
    As a child all my specs came from Hyde Bain, next door (or thereabouts) to the hobby, model kit shop....

  • Steeve Cee on Albert Street Shops

    29/12/2019
    All in the vicinity of the Army Recruiting Office (mid sixties that is). This office moved to premises at the...

  • Steeve Cee on Elizabeth (Bessie) Sheppard – Memorial Stone.

    28/12/2019
    Good work Richard, you are obviously very keen, well done! Seems a pity however that there appears to be little...
Latest pages

  • MY LADYBROOK AS I KNEW IT

    04/01/2020
    Although I was born in Tissington in Derbyshire I have lived in Mansfield from the age of 18 months. My ...

  • Darts presentation

    02/01/2020
    Two photos from the Mansfield and district works darts league in the seventies and eighties of two separate years presentation ...

  • The Charabanc - 1920

    18/12/2019
    This was the first bus to run into Blidworth. The idea came from Mr Hodgkiss, who as most  people will ...

  • Corporal Clarke's Country Cures

    17/12/2019
    This is a collection of cures from over 200 years ago. We strongly recommend that you do not try them!!!
More new pages
  • Terms of use
  • Privacy and cookies
  • Accessibility
  • Admin login
Website by CommunitySites