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  • Michael Frost on Mansfield Mines Rescue Service

    06/03/2021
    I had the opportunity of having a tour of the new facility back in around 2008, arranged by a cousin...

  • Phillip goucher on York Street Secondary, Mansfield Woodhouse.

    05/03/2021
    I was at York Street school 1965-1969 can remember some of the teachers Fred Allsop was history and pe teacher,...

  • Kev Wilkinson on Buildings in Mansfield

    04/03/2021
    Picture number 2 is the River Maun towards Bridge St. James’ yard as has been said. If it’s enlarged you...

  • Jean Tryner nee Bailey on Ravensdale School.

    03/03/2021
    School song: Don’t know the title but went; Travel travel the pilgrim way, Travel by night travel by day, Who...

  • Gary Shepherd on Clipstone Colliery Football Club

    02/03/2021
    The Clipstone Welfare dream team was 1985 when they won the Notts Senior Cup. They beat the best the county...

  • Dave Hibbert on Mansfield Colliery Boxing Club 1962

    02/03/2021
    John Parrot next to Charlie Middleton

  • Brian Randle on Broomhill and rosemary school’s in the fifties

    01/03/2021
    The two missing names on the photo are, Norman Evans and Brian Mayes

  • Janet Waterhouse on Pleasley

    28/02/2021
    I attended Pleasley School in the 50's. Mr. Smith was Headmaster at the time. One of the classes was held...

  • Derek Brewer on Mansfield music scene in the sixties

    28/02/2021
    Well done, Alan, it's got the old brain cells active again. My girl friend, now my wife, used to go...

  • Pete Higgins on The Inkpot

    27/02/2021
    Hi Paul. I moved to Rainworth in 1953 when I was 2 years old. The picture house was called the...

  • Angela Chambers née Dickson on Jenny Becket’s Lane

    27/02/2021
    My father still lives at 60, Jenny Becketts house from when it was built and faces the old house. As...

  • Paul Stevenson on The Inkpot

    25/02/2021
    I have only a vague recollection of the old toll cottage but do remember the Palace Picture House from the...

  • Cheryl Bostock on The Small Holdings

    25/02/2021
    My grandad Fred ‘Cap’ Marriott was the secretary of the Mansfield Woodhouse Gardeners Association for many years until his death...

  • Malc Taylor on Penford’s Mill

    24/02/2021
    I totally agree with you regarding Penford’s mill location, always told as kids that it stood on the junction of...

  • John riggs on Church across from the Empire Picture place

    23/02/2021
    I lived in Ruth St, attended Lifeboys at the Baptist Church. Left Mansfield in 1967 and returned to Scotland.

  • Tyronehemsell Titch on Clumber Street from the 60’s/70’s

    21/02/2021
    That's right Pete, the Bali used to be the Flamingo Coffee Bar. A great place where the mods used to...

  • Jane Guy on ANNALS OF MANSFIELD FROM 1086 TO 1999

    21/02/2021
    Just discovered one of my ancestors, a George Guy, born 1883, who previously was a coal miner, hewer, in South...

  • Michael Frost on Brick Kiln Lane.

    20/02/2021
    Hello Leslie Spencer, sorry do not recall you, yes we did move to Canada in 1956 from Brick Kiln Lane....

  • Mr Graham Burton (former Woodus Lad) on Entrance and Yard to Arthur Richardson & Son Ltd Wholesale Grocers.

    19/02/2021
    Hello Barbara, So nice to think that with just a photograph taken some years ago now brings happy memories for...

  • Malcolm Martin on Dam Head Cottages

    19/02/2021
    My mother lived on Cinderella Walk in the railway cottages the entrance was on the walkway. Her family name was...

  • Andrew Wingrove on Memories of Queen Elizabeth Girls Grammar School

    19/02/2021
    My mother Joyce Brenda Cowlishaw, who was born in Jan 1928, went to Queen Elizabeth's Girls Grammar School in Mansfield....

  • Denise Pearce on Cycling Clubs

    17/02/2021
    Hi does anyone know about a record that my grandad, Harold Williams and (not sure of the other name) did...

  • C Emery on Mansfield Market in the Good Old Days

    16/02/2021
    My husband's grandfather came to UK from Italy in the early 1900s and I'm told he would visit Divit's ice...

  • Tom Randall on Mansfield Mines Rescue Service

    15/02/2021
    Mansfield Shoe Co. opened their new factory in Leeming Lane South the same year as the rescue station. My father,...
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    05/03/2021
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  • The Garton family

    05/03/2021
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  • Mansfield Leather Sherwood Cup Competition

    03/03/2021
    I found this certificate when going through my dad’s belongings. It’s a certificate awarded to dad’s uncle Frank (undated) who ...

  • St Mary's nativity in the early sixties

    03/03/2021
    Are you, or do you recognise anyone in this Photo from Graham Kirk. It is a nativity played by the ...
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