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Nottingham Photographic Memories
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I have lived at Cotham Station Houses since 1978. The railway line was still in use them, and on a few occasioins members of the Royal Family stayed overnight, including Prince Charles and Princess Anne. We would be given Union Jacks to wave and take the policemen that were on duty cups of tea and bacon sandwiches. We saw Princess Anne... [more]
Shared on 22 July 2008
By this point I was ten years old. I rememder going fishing with a net on a pole for sticklebacks just round the back of my house which was in Coging Close, there was a huge area of fields with a stream running by it. I also remember that just round the corner from us was an old run-down farm but... [more]
Shared on 28 October 2008
More on the Williamson of Tythby
I was born in Tythby in 1948. Rose Cottage on the Cross Roads of Tythby. Church on one corner, Miss Cox's house on another and Bagleys's farm on the other. The youngest of the eight Williamsons. Ours was a full household but I have happy memories of it. Listen with Mother came on the radio at 1.45pm. Mum said I used... [more]
Shared on 23 August 2008
I used to live in the village of TYTHBY, spelled with a Y and not an I. I did not even know that there was another village close by with a similar name. But I have checked on the computer and there it is, not too far away in the general direction of Langar. But I do not think there ever... [more]
Shared on 04 August 2008
Extracts From Alverton & Nottinghamshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Alverton, inspired by Frith photos.
Newark Photographic Memories Pocket Album
For centuries, the repair of bridges and maintenance of roads was the responsibility of the parishes in which they were situated, though important crossing points were often maintained through a levy raised from a number of parishes. Between 1678 and 1695 the parish of Kelham was indicted on numerous occasions for failing to repair 'a footbridge situate near the eastern end... [more]
This is an extract from Newark Photographic Memories Pocket Album.
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Newark Photographic Memories Pocket Album
Newark owes much of its development to the fact that Henry I gave Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, permission to divert the route of the Fosse Way through the town. In the late 17th century the main road from Nottingham to Newark went via Charlton (Carlton), Burton, Gunthorp (Gunthorpe), Horingham Ferry (Hoveringham), Bleasby Ferry and Stoak (Stoke) where it joined the Fosse... [more]
This is an extract from Newark Photographic Memories Pocket Album.
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Newark Photographic Memories Pocket Album
This view shows Trent Bridge with the Ossington on the left, the castle on the right and the spire of St Mary Magdalen in the background. One interesting fact about St Mary's is that the 252?ft-high spire is thirty feet longer than the ground plan of the main body of the building.
This is an extract from Newark Photographic Memories Pocket Album.
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