Cotgrave Memories

Our grandad George Boultby was a miner at Cotgrave. Because we didn't have a car, we had to go on the old type Barton buses. We would walk from the bus stop to our grandparents' house. They used to live in two different locations, the first I am not sure of the street/road name but it's from the main shopping area, through the garages at the back and across the road. It was a nice house with a hot kitchen and a old-fashioned pantry. In the summer we would play in the large garden. Grandad would grow a few vegetables. I can remember collecting ladybirds from the hedge. In the other place, it was on Forest Road, a bungalow, I think number 4 but I'm not sure. When we went there Grandad would take us to look at the farm animals in the village and the fields. He would point out the pit heads and tell us what they were for. I also remember the journey home. We would all cram in grandad's old car. There was grandmother in front and my mother, brother, sister and me in the back. There were no seatbelts, or we never used them then. We always were tired after the long day. Our grandad will never be forgotten. If anybody remembers a George Boultby from the late 1960s and early 1970s who was in the miners' welfare club and died in 1979, please get in touch. We are trying to get his working life traced.