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  • Mark Jevons on Memories of Titchfield Park. Mansfield

    23/09/2020
    Reading this brought back so many happy memories. I used to play in the park as a child. My friends...

  • paul paling on Former Mansfield Coal Merchants

    22/09/2020
    My father was a coal merchant for many years in Mansfield Woodhouse. Harold Paling. I can recall fetching coal from...

  • Tom Cotton on Moor Lane School. Mansfield

    22/09/2020
    This is in response to Alan Curtis's opening post. A bit late, but better than never. It may jog a...

  • Tom Cotton on The Old Workhouse

    21/09/2020
    Pauline, I'm pleased that you liked this. I was born in Mansfield in 1934, leaving at 18 in 1952, and...

  • Pauline Marples on The Old Workhouse

    21/09/2020
    This was very enjoyable to read. The Workhouse actually became the Victoria Hospital in 1897, however for many years local...

  • Tom Cotton on Church across from the Empire Picture place

    21/09/2020
    It certainly is the old Baptist Church. They used to hold splendid choral concerts there in the 1940s, such as...

  • Malcolm Hancock on thoughts about mansfield sec tech 1955-1960

    18/09/2020
    Similar memories. Took my GCEs in 1957. Still think respectfully of Mr Davis (physics) and Mr Branston (chemistry). Mr Palfreman...

  • Malcolm Hancock on Old Granada Cinema

    18/09/2020
    I saw Helen Shapiro and The Beatles for that 1963 show at the Granada. I went with my girlfriend who...

  • Harry Whitehouse on Brunts Grammar School, Mansfield

    17/09/2020
    Wonderful to see in print the school song (which 55 years after leaving I still know by heart).

  • Alan Bridges on Old Stockwell Gate before demolition

    15/09/2020
    I remember this scene very well Graham, we lived about five minute's walk from here. The temporary shops up the...

  • Graham Collis on Whiteley Electrical Radio Co Ltd

    15/09/2020
    Great to read these Posts, it really brings back so many memories of all those years ago. I worked with...

  • Tom Cotton on The Beginning of Quarry Lane.

    14/09/2020
    That's a brilliant sketch, Alan, just as I remember it from the days when I used to be in the...

  • Tom Cotton on 1940s at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School

    14/09/2020
    The teacher was Bernard Redding, who taught French to the lower school ('Jerry' Hunter, the deputy head, was the senior...

  • Tom Cotton on Queen Elizabeth Boys School

    14/09/2020
    This may be a bit of a long shot, but the teacher sitting at the left in the front row...

  • Frances on Landers Bakery

    14/09/2020
    This is great history, does anyone have similar details of workers etc of Moore’s Luxury Loaf bakery in Salford ?...

  • Peter Stokes on Mansfield Special Constables 1940’s

    13/09/2020
    I was a Special Constable, and subsequently a Section Officer, in Mansfield from early 1981 until 1990 when I moved...

  • Maria Douglass on Public House Then & Now

    11/09/2020
    Paul Roxy passed away in Australia. I worked at Flamingo from around 87, then on and off till 91 (...

  • Maria Douglass on The Car Park behind the Co-op

    11/09/2020
    I can remember a stone sarcophagus being in co-op car park.

  • Maria Douglass on Victoria Street..

    11/09/2020
    Hi I was born and raised on Victoria St. 1970. I have the best memories there. My parents moved onto...

  • Rex. Mirfin on Sheepbridge Lane. Mansfield.

    10/09/2020
    Great memories. First, I went to school with Man(?) Mallatrat, he had a shock of black hair, (then!) Alan, I...

  • David Holt on Mansfield Sea Cadets

    09/09/2020
    Can anyone confirm if the officer on the extreme left in picture 7 is Norman Wood? I worked with him...

  • GARY BROWN on The Streets Of Mansfield.

    08/09/2020
    I certainly do remember the air raid shelter in early 70s at the area where Sherwood baths was. I lived...

  • Steve Hicken on Mansfield Sea Cadets

    07/09/2020
    Wow! What a trip down memory lane. Loved being in the sea cadets, the laughs, jokes, activities and trips away...

  • Lyn on Festival of Queens

    06/09/2020
    I was an attendant for our Festival of Queens in February 1965 at York. My Mum altered my white nylon...
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  • The Old Workhouse

    19/09/2020
    Mansfield Workhouse

  • Cumberland’s School hockey team 1973/74

    19/09/2020
    Cumberland’s Secondary Modern School hockey team 1973/74 Came across this during lockdown brought back some great memories of school days. Can ...

  • The barber of seville and Ladybrook

    18/08/2020
    Firstly, I would like to say that any spelling errors bad grammar or attempts to be amusing are all intended. Roger ...

  • Mystery 1952-3 Football Team - School or Club????

    12/08/2020
    This maybe a school photo, possibly Rosemary Street School Football Team 1952-3 or is it a Football club photo? Does ...
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