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Bestwood Lodge
After browsing this site in search of any information or memories about Bestwood Lodge.
Nothing comes up other than Bestwood Village.
So I thought I would add my own.
So here goes...........Is there anyone out there who had a connection or a memory of Bestwood.....particularly the "married quarters" on Robin Hood Road, or Nell Gwyn Crescent?
There were only the two roads at the time which were surrounded by farmland in the fifties. Check out Google Earth, and it is very different now of course. All built up, although the once MOD owned houses look very smart with all of their new additions, ie Porches, Garages etc.
I would like to hear from anyone who lived there at that time, as I did.
"Brownie Meetings" in Bestwood Lodge (Now a Hotel) I have some great Memories from those times................anyone else out there?
Can you add anything?
Ravenshead' My Memoirs' by David Palfreman
I have recently produced a 28 page booklet with sketches and photographs of my memories of childhood days growing up in the area now known as Ravenshead, Notts.Copies of this booklet are available for customers to read at Nottinghamshire County Library in Glaisdale Nottingham or at Ravenshead Library. Further copies can be ordered by e-mailing Ravenshead@southfieldmill.plus.com at a cost of £3-99 inc. p.&p. My memoirs describe how life was during the war and post war years and highlights the type of people and the pastimes of those living in the community at that time. The booklet also contains personal sketches of mine which have been created from memory and compares them with current day photographs clearly showing the changes that have taken place over the years.I hope you might find my contribution of some interest should you wish to pursue it further.
Farming From Horses to Electronics.
My grandfather G. A. Smith took the tenancy of Springs Farm on Edingley Moor in 1931, when I was six months old. A builder by trade, and a sergeant in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry during the First World War, he farmed entirely with horses and the hand-graft of his sons and daughters, not to mention his wife Aggie. In 1934 agricultural depression was at its worst and he went back to his trade and his son-in-law, my father David Butler (Jack) Watts took over the tenancy. The farm was then part of the Hexgreave Estate. Jack, a champion ploughman from Derbyshire, brought an old Fordson with him to supplement the horses, and was able to start farming with a contract with the new Milk Marketing Board. The farm then had its own watermill, and by gradually adding labour-saving machinery and another tractor Jack was able to get established. I was eight when the war started, and in August 1940 the farm was straddled with about 180 incendiary bombs, possibly jettisoned... Read more
Scout Camp
The 79th Boy Scout Group of which my father Bert Lacey was Scout master for on a number of years used to take us camping on a farm close to Farnsfield, I think it was called Combes Farm. We would get there down a lane off the Ollerton Road. If any none remembers this camp site please let me know. As far as I know my paternal grandmother came from Farnsfield, a lady by the name of Alice Bonser who married a Mr Lacey and moved to Netherfield.
Good Times
I came across this site today and was taken back to my childhood. I was born in Netherfield at 21, Hodgkinson Street in September 1957, the daughter of Brian and Barbera Pritchett, and 2 years later had a brother called Mark. Our parents have sadly passed away now but I have so many happy memories of living in a close tight knit village where everybody knew each other. I have now lived for the past 25 years in Keyworth but often go through Netho and still have family there. I would love to hear from anyone who remembers me and share some memories, I still consider myself a Netho lass and always will. I look forward to hearing from you. Sue Hart, nee Pritchett, tel 07761149255
Jackie Bells Park
My email address is brettgavin54@gmail.com, I am two years younger than you, but went Chandos St Boys School, we must of seen each other. Did you have a page boy hair cut,(blonde) when 10 or 11? I'm not sure this site comment is genuine, anyway, if it is real please reply.
Parlett Ice Cream
Shop on the corner of Farley's Lane was the old dairy.
