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  • Steeve Cee on Mystery Soldier

    25/02/2020
    Currently delving through the archives of the Sherwood Foresters & related regiments - to use a phrase from the distant...

  • A.N on Miners Parade & Gala 1966

    25/02/2020
    My dad had an accident in Bentinck pit in 1963, and I remember as a little girl attending the gala...

  • MARK on Public House Then & Now

    24/02/2020
    Hi Phil, Paul Roxy moved to Australia . Had a word with a bouncer who worked on the doors back...

  • MARK on Oak Tree Lane Estate 1980s

    24/02/2020
    Oak Tree sports shop, I would pick my dart flights up from there so I could play in the Cuckoo...

  • Kerry Morrell on Duke Street, Mansfield

    24/02/2020
    My dad, John Edson, lived at 37 Duke Street

  • Steeve Cee on Mystery Soldier

    23/02/2020
    One to watch, the mystery will surely be solved, will try a check on the Notts & Derby Regt soonest....

  • Editors on Mystery Soldier

    23/02/2020
    It has now been suggested he is in the Notts. & Derby. Regiment in World war One. Also that he...

  • Steeve Cee on Mystery Soldier

    20/02/2020
    Definitely 'Apricot' I would say, could be the frame makers name, alternatively it could be a nickname used by a...

  • Graham Parkin on QEGS

    20/02/2020
    Add John Wilkinson, seated left, next to Mr Horsley. Memory slowly returning!!

  • Graham Parkin on QEGS

    20/02/2020
    I recognise most of the lads in the team. Back row left to right:- Woodward, Jim Beardsmore, Pete Stanley?, John...

  • Alan Bridges on Memories of Old Mansfield

    19/02/2020
    This photo of the old Empire has special memories for me as I lived about half a mile from here...

  • Ed Coulstock on Pleasley Vale

    18/02/2020
    Hi, I am interested in finding out more about an address in the vale namely, 'The Den'. My grandfather Joseph...

  • Mark Wilson on Palais de Dance

    18/02/2020
    Big bands who played at the Palais included Joe Loss. My late father Tug organised one event, it was through...

  • Charles Hickling on Crown Farm, Mansfield

    18/02/2020
    Our late brother-in-law, Ian Friswell, (1942-2011) moved to Crown Farm in 1956 with his parents Jim and Frances and his...

  • Mavis James (Ball) on Old Mansfield Society Mystery

    18/02/2020
    It is Stockwell Gate, and the pub in the middle of the old houses was the old King and Miller....

  • Michelle on Queensway Park, Forest Town

    16/02/2020
    Thank you Pauline, Yes we are Friends of Queensway Park and hopefully we will be able to bring some life...

  • Foggy on Mansfield Streets

    16/02/2020
    Hi, the motorcycle dealers at New Cross Sutton was Taggs, not Wraggs.

  • Tony Marriott on Whiteley Electrical Radio Co Ltd

    13/02/2020
    Hi Nick I commenced work at Whiteleys in 1966 and started work on "inspection" under the watchful eye of Mr....

  • Steeve Cee on Newfoundland, Canada, Victorian wall letter box.

    12/02/2020
    Possibly James Maude & Co of London, rather than *Mansfield? Your example may have the makers details covered by several...

  • Steeve Cee on Newgate Lane School

    11/02/2020
    Thanks Jim, struggling to get my bearings from the photos, a long time since I walked down Newgate Lane either...

  • Gail Odonnell on VICTORIA HOSPITAL (now Mansfield Community Hospital)

    10/02/2020
    I was born in the Victoria Hospital, April 25,1957. 2 years later left for Canada.

  • Jim Cairns on Newgate Lane School

    09/02/2020
    I would say that the building is the Merdian factory which had a sister plant on Belvedere street

  • Steeve Cee on Newgate Lane School

    08/02/2020
    Picture No. 1. Does anyone know what the tall building / structure is in the background? I see that scaffolding...

  • Noel Newbury on Forest Town Post Offices

    07/02/2020
    Mr George Orchard was postmaster at Forest Town during the 1950's . Reg Moxon, late of Forest Town was postman....
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  • Mystery Soldier

    20/02/2020
    This photograph is in the Mansfield Museum collection, sadly with no indication of  who the soldier is or who deposited ...

  • Mansfield, Sutton and the world Press

    19/02/2020
    Mansfield, Sutton-in-Ashfield and the World Press At its industrial peak, and in relationship to its size and population, Mansfield and Sutton-in-Ashfield ...

  • Memories of Elsie Browns Folk House Brownies.

    19/02/2020
    One for the ladies, The Westfield Folk House Brownies in the early fifties. Does this jog any memories for you. Are ...

  • Queensway Park, Forest Town

    16/02/2020
    This park at Forest Town was originally established as a children’s recreation ground  around 1930/31.  It became known as Queensway ...
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