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  • royvoce on Diving into a Tank of Water.

    11/04/2021
    My wife saw him do the dive many times at Wembley stadium at half time in the speedway circa 1949....

  • Edward Pogmore on Portland Training College

    10/04/2021
    Thanks for these pictures. Caught up with them after seeing archive footage of The Queen and Prince Philip visiting the...

  • Amanda Dutton on Windmill Ridge School Musical 1980

    08/04/2021
    Front row from left, 3rd Samantha Senior, 5th Helen Berry. Middle row from left, 2nd Lisa Wallhead, 4th Caroline Roe,...

  • Mary-Louise O'Neill on High Oakham School

    05/04/2021
    I am just writing to answer a query from Susan Sisson. She asked if anyone knew Sean O'Neill who was...

  • Susan Smith (formerly Johnson) on Brunts School Song

    05/04/2021
    That song brought back memories! I was there 1955-1959. My father, uncle and aunt had been pupils too.

  • Susan Smith (formerly Johnson) on Henley High School (A former private school in the days before Ofsted!)

    05/04/2021
    I was sent there, age 5, would have been 1949. It moved to Sutton, and a bit later I was...

  • James on ASDA Open Day 25th October 1998

    03/04/2021
    I was actually the first person to get in the shop on opening day- I got a box of Celebrations...

  • Calvin shaw on A Whitegates Mystery.

    03/04/2021
    The Duke of Portland was very good at utilising labour that wasn’t being deployed elsewhere, i.e. the Reservoir at Sutton...

  • Mary Price on Festival of Queens

    01/04/2021
    I remember this event at Darlington Street Methodist Church in Wolverhampton. As others have said, I loved selling the Sunny...

  • Frank Watson on Queen Elizabeths Boys School

    30/03/2021
    I was at QEGS 1943-1950 with interruptions. I have many memories.

  • Michael Longdon on High Oakham School

    29/03/2021
    Past memories, does anyone know anyone who attended from 1958 to 1962? These were the years I was there and...

  • Harry Whitehouse on Brunts School Song

    29/03/2021
    And like John Holliday, I too was caned by Ben Priestley for a non-existent offence, having been set up by...

  • Kevan Wilkinson on Extraordinary Mansfield Folk – Dr Burgess

    28/03/2021
    As a young lad of about 13 yrs I suffered horrendous headaches. These caused severe pain on one side of...

  • Lynne Barton (nee Ufton) on The History of Mansfield Shoe Co

    26/03/2021
    I worked at the Shoe Co for 13 years, from 1970 to 1983. I was in the “shoe room” and...

  • John Barry Bowskill on Underneath The Arches…..

    24/03/2021
    I recall sitting outside the Old Byron with my Father and having my bottle of orange crush and packet of...

  • Andrew Stafford on WW1 Thomas Bullock

    24/03/2021
    We have this picture somewhere in our family, my Grandad was Charles Colbeck Bullock , I think he was Danny's...

  • Andrew Stafford on Memories of cycle/motorbike training

    24/03/2021
    I think I remember Harry Walker as an older man. In the late 1970's, I had just left school and...

  • Nicola Miller on My Friend Frank Bagley.

    21/03/2021
    Frank would be my dad's cousin. Agnes Bagley was my Grandma.

  • Geoff Rampton on Mansfield’s Changing High Street

    21/03/2021
    I am trying to get in touch with Alan Jones, who posted on this thread on 29 April 2016. I...

  • Malcolm Coomber on Ravensdale School.

    19/03/2021
    Went to good old " Ravo " from 1959 to 1963. Best years of my life up to then. I...

  • Penny Thorpe on Public Transport

    17/03/2021
    With regard to Bevan and Barkers Bus - aka Red Bus Company. I understand that the bus company ended around...

  • Michael Frost on Victoria Street..

    15/03/2021
    Hello Jim Priest, we are the same age, I lived on Moor Street before moving to Brick Kiln Lane in...

  • Michael Frost on Fond Memories

    15/03/2021
    Wow, another memory recalled, When I came back from Canada in 1961 I was put back in Mr Warrington's class,...

  • Michael Frost on The Small Holdings

    14/03/2021
    Just recently I made a query to Ms Cheryl Bostock comment about her Grandad Tom, caps, Marriott. Digging into some...
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  • HRH Prince Philip 1921 - 2021

    10/04/2021
    It is with great sadness we have learnt of the death of HRH Prince Philip and our thoughts are with ...

  • EASTER JOY - Forest Town

    06/04/2021
    The message this garden and cross gives to everyone is a joy to see, it is done with love  and ...

  • Wedding at The Old Meeting House

    17/03/2021
    This photograph was taken at the Old Meeting House, Mansfield, possibly on the 28 October 1938. From Left to right back ...

  • Memories of Newgate Lane, before we moved to Australia

    05/03/2021
    This interesting article has recently arrived with us……… “I went to Newgate Lane Primary from 66 till 69 , left when ...
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