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  • Julie Brock - was Julie Moorhouse on Handley Arcade in Days Gone By.

    13/11/2019
    My grandparents ran the Borough Club and locked up the arcade at night. I remember their living quarters and toilet...

  • David Marriott on Birds and Snakes

    12/11/2019
    Hello Pauline, I just thought I'd respond to your earlier question regarding certain natural history pieces in Mansfield Museum. As...

  • David Marriott on Cumberland School, Ladybrook

    12/11/2019
    Hello Fred, thanks for your previous information regarding some of our local footballers. However, it's not a sport I've ever...

  • David Gibbons on 1940s at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School

    11/11/2019
    I am very flattered that Jim even remembers my name from 72 years ago. I have very happy memories of...

  • David Gibbons on Queen Elizabeths Boys School

    11/11/2019
    Re Jim Marshall's photo and comments on 1940s at Queen Elizabeths. I am flattered that after 72 years he still...

  • Geoff on Mansfield Boys Brigade

    11/11/2019
    This takes me back. Way back. I’d be probably 8-10 years old when I was in the Boys Brigade. I’m...

  • Mark Wilson on Mansfield Woodhouse

    09/11/2019
    Betts were a well known family, Barbara Sadler married a Reg Betts, she taught me at King Edwards, I met...

  • Mark Wilson on Shopping in Mansfield

    09/11/2019
    Top of Stockwell Gate was the Belle View pub, run at one stage by Kit or Kathleen Needham, sister of...

  • Mark Wilson on Northern Dairies

    09/11/2019
    I recall May Mawer saying the bus fare had gone up to a threepenny bit, she was a very down...

  • Mark Wilson on Sid Yeates & Sons – Tailors and Outfitters

    09/11/2019
    Didn't the Robinson family live at the top of Rutland St or very near the top? I knew a Monica...

  • Mark Wilson on H. Pye & Sons Outing

    09/11/2019
    Pyes in this case were just Mansfield based. The firm started I believe in the late 1890s or so, the...

  • Mark Wilson on REXCO

    08/11/2019
    Rexco was pulled up by John Brown who came from Scotland, he came to Bolsover Colliery Company under John T...

  • Mark Wilson on Mansfield’s Foundries & Roadside Letter Boxes

    08/11/2019
    Regarding James Maude, I don't think WT Allan had any connection, I knew the Fish family who were descendants of...

  • Mark Wilson on Mansfield’s Victorian Postal District

    08/11/2019
    A good past friend who I knew as uncle Harry was a cousin of George Neville, they were well known,...

  • Mark Wilson on Carnegie Library

    08/11/2019
    I heard a lot about the Library, more so from who I knew as Auntie Madge, she eventually married John...

  • Editors on Pleasley Vale

    05/11/2019
    Comment added on behalf of Denise the contributor below. - My name was formerly Denise Watson. I was brought up...

  • Hilary Taylor on Buildings in Mansfield

    04/11/2019
    Picture No 1 is definitely Kings Mill as it was owned by my grandfather. My father (John Taylor) worked there...

  • Mark on The Rock House Families

    30/10/2019
    My mother was telling me about this earlier. My mother’s maiden name is Bramwell, Julie Anne Bramwell, her father Michael...

  • Pauline Marples on Forest Town Bus Outing

    23/10/2019
    Wilfs daughter Joyce was driving her dads 14 seater coach in 1955 when she was 25 (born 1930) - this...

  • Michael Parkin on Forest Town Bus Outing

    21/10/2019
    The lady at the back, 4th from the left, is Miss Berry, who was the Headmistress of the infants at...

  • Susan Sisson on High Oakham School

    20/10/2019
    I discovered this site whilst searching for something unrelated. I discovered the photograph showing the Girls School teachers. On it...

  • Roger Tagg on Rosemary infants school

    19/10/2019
    I was there from 1949 to 1951 in Mrs Cockings Class, but don't recognise myself in this picture. I think...

  • Liz Weston on Streets of Mansfield Woodhouse

    18/10/2019
    Posted on behalf of Ann Smith To G Burton re post dated7/1/18 Re Sticky Jack , my father now in...

  • Roger Tagg on QEGS (boys) and my memories of 1930s and 1940s Mansfield.

    15/10/2019
    Apologies in my last post I said Mlle Thouez joined in 2007 that of course should be 1957
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  • Old Church on Stockwell.

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

  • The conservative Club Mansfield

    11/11/2019
    This is another photo from Roger Brown. The photo was taken at the conservative club in 1977 during the queens ...

  • Roger Brown's Broomhill football Team

    11/11/2019
    This is the Broomhill football team taken at the Mansfield Town (stags) ground in 1955. They represented Mansfield schools against Worksop ...

  • Sherwood Hall Technical Grammer School for Boys

    11/11/2019
    Sherwood Hall was my school from 1963 to 1969. I have in my possession three programmes for Gilbert & Sullivan ...
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