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  • Steve Eardley on High Oakham Girls’ School – My Memories

    08/12/2019
    Hello, My Mother also attended this school and I can remember the choir recording and listening to the 2 records...

  • Paul Robinson on Duke Street, Mansfield

    08/12/2019
    I was born in 1952 at 40 Duke St, the house of my grandparents Fred and Clarice Robinson. They moved...

  • James Clifton on Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital

    08/12/2019
    Hi my grandpa brought Chitty Chitty Bang Bang here and spent part of the day taking the children and staff...

  • Tim Slack on Forest Town Bus Outing

    07/12/2019
    Two ladies that I can identify in the photo are: Doris Derry (2nd from right hand side...middle row....Mother of Barbara...Headmistress...

  • Alvera Foote on Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital

    06/12/2019
    I was a student in 1974, Alvera Remfrey, and have fond memories of Harlow Wood. Does anyone else remember the...

  • Glyn on My Memories of Mansfield Cinemas

    03/12/2019
    I wasn't born in Mansfield, but from being a very young kid I'd always visited quite often with family and...

  • Jenny Wright on Old Church on Stockwell Gate.

    29/11/2019
    Hello Graham, Just a further update on the Baptist Chapel on Stockwell Gate. I had a look for the plaque...

  • Hugh Slaney on Parsons of Parson’s Yard

    29/11/2019
    John Parsons interest in Parsons Yard may go back earlier than 1816 as in March 1815 Jabez Unwin dissolves a...

  • Phill lloyd on Church Street Demolition

    28/11/2019
    It looks like the space which was used as a scrap yard . The yard went from Bridge Street and...

  • Carmela Denton on Mansfield Fire Station

    28/11/2019
    Thanks Bill. So Shakespeare was from Beeston fire station, I guess that's why I remember him so fondly. Give him...

  • Carmela Denton on Early days at Ethel Wainwright Junior School

    28/11/2019
    I am second row, fourth from the right Carmen Denton, Fifth is my best friend Julie White. I loved our...

  • Jim Marshall on Queen Elizabeths Boys School

    26/11/2019
    Talk about a small world! I had an appointment today, November 26th, with a physiotherapist in Brighton, where I now...

  • Editors on Clipstone Camp and the Mansfield Area in WW1

    26/11/2019
    Hi, I am doing my family tree and I have just found a relative John Joseph Bewick was sent to...

  • BRIAN SMITH (Dosser) on West Lodge

    25/11/2019
    I was in west lodge from 1981 to 1986 I loved messing about in the celler. A bit creepy but...

  • Anthony Craddock on Music Lessons with Miss Houseley

    25/11/2019
    I have recently found this web page which was of considerable interest. I too was a pupil of Miss Nellie...

  • Jenny Wright on Old Church on Stockwell Gate.

    25/11/2019
    Not sure Graham, I found the picture in a book I'm currently reading, 'Mansfield, a view from the Market Place'...

  • Mr Graham Burton (former" Woodus Lad ") on Old Church on Stockwell Gate.

    25/11/2019
    Thank you for your comment Jenny, nice to reminisce on old photographs of building's long gone in what was a...

  • Mr Graham Burton (former" Woodus Lad ") on Palace Theatre Programme

    25/11/2019
    Well Alan who would have thought it all those years in such a theatre in Mansfield !. Wonder if anyone...

  • Jenny Wright on Old Church on Stockwell Gate.

    25/11/2019
    Yes, it was originally the Wesleyan Church and I think it dates back to around 1791. In July 1815 it...

  • Sanjay Pancholi on Mansfield Streets

    24/11/2019
    Hi My mum and dad used to own the old post office on Leeming Street and was wondering if there...

  • Betty Aitken (nee Taylor) on My Years As An Orthopaedic Nurse

    17/11/2019
    1967-1969, I would love anyone who was on Ward 3 Children's Ward, (11-15 year old) to get in touch with...

  • Betty Aitken (nee Taylor) on Pictures of Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital

    17/11/2019
    1968 - 1969, I remember being lowered down into the pool on the stretcher at the back of this picture,...

  • Betty Aitken (nee Taylor) on Christmas in hospital, photos and memories

    17/11/2019
    Christmas 1967 - I spent 3 months on Ward 3 with my leg in traction. It was a good time...

  • Betty Aitken (nee Taylor) on Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital

    17/11/2019
    How lovely to find this wonderful page on Harlow Wood. I was in and out of this hospital from December...
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  • Photos of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at Harlow Wood.

    09/12/2019
    This is when my grandpa, Jeff Clifton, brought Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to Harlow Wood Hospital in 1969. Thought you ...

  • New Co-operative Food Hall /store in the 70's

    26/11/2019
    New building for the Co-op Food Hall on Station Street across from then the Mansfield Police Station. This building were ...

  • Palace Theatre Programme

    25/11/2019
    This is a programme for a production at the Palace Theatre in 1950 that I recently found in some old ...

  • Old Church on Stockwell Gate.

    13/11/2019
    This old Church on Stockwell Gate was taken by myself in the early ’70s. Can anyone put a name to ...
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