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Nottinghamshire Living Memories
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Nottinghamshire Photographic Memories
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Newark Photographic Memories
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Memories of Cropwell Butler
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On my grandmother's side, the Hornbuckle family dates back to this Church and this town from the early 1500's. So if you see any headstone's in the local cemetary saying HORNBUCKLE, "GAULTER OR WALTER", they are related to me.
He actually left his money to the Church for needed repairs and for something called MILN Brig....if anyone knows... [more]
Shared on 28 March 2008
My Dad, Sid Brooks was the rural village police constable (P.c.200) for Cropwell Butler, Cropwell Bishop and Tythby We, Mum (Dorothy) and my younger brother Mick lived in the Police House on Radcliffe Road, There was an old fashioned stem type phone connected to the manual exchange. Dad’s means of transport for work was a sit up and... [more]
Shared on 18 January 2008
The Police House was located on Radcliffe Road, Cropwell Butler. (now called 'The Old Police House'). On the front wall it bore a sign bearing the words 'County Police'. From 1939 to 1945 it was occupied by the Village Constable, P.c.200 Sidney Brooks, his wife Dorothy and sons Peter, born 1936 (the writer, now living in OZ) and Michael, born 1939 ... [more]
Shared on 18 January 2008
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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
My grandparents lived at Fern Cottage. They moved there before the war and had two children, Dick and Jean. Dick was based at Wick and died in the war. Jean, my mum, married and had me and my sister. I have wonderful memories of Cropwell Bishop as a child. Exploring the countryside towards the gypsum tip. The Barlows butchers... [more]
Shared on 17 January 2010
Mine and my Mum Avril's memories
My memories relate to the year 1977 when I arrived in Cropwell Bishop to stay with my Great Uncle Wilf and his wife Dorothy fresh from New Zealand. They lived at the old Post Office in the village of Cropwell Bishop. My Grandmother was Wilf's older sister Ethel May Johnson (nee Walker). I was instantly wrapped with the village and felt... [more]
Shared on 17 October 2008
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,... [more]
Shared on 19 February 2009
Extracts From Cropwell Butler & Nottinghamshire books
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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]
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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]
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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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