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Hucknall, Nottinghamshire
Hucknall maps
Historic maps of Hucknall and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Hucknall maps
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Hucknall books
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Nottingham Photographic Memories
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Memories of Hucknall
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I remember going to the Goose Fair in Nottingham in the late 1940s and we used to stay with my Uncle Jim Bradbury in Hucknall. On the way back from one of these trips my dad bought some meal for the pigs (he and grandad had lots of them on an allotment), anyway it was late when we got back and... [more]
Shared on 25 July 2008
Nottinghamshire memories
When our family, consisting of myself, Jean Pauline Smith, my mother who has since passed away (also called Jean, but her middle name is Audrey), and my sister and brother came to Bulwell, we came from the famous or infamous Balloon Wood flats, in Wollaton. We were given a three bedroom house on Hornbeam Gardens, Snapewood. It was a cold September... [more]
Shared on 10 March 2009
Although I was only a boy. Me and my two brothers went Percy Street School. Mrs Evans was the teacher I remember very well. We lived on Davids Square. We had many happy hours at the Vernon picture house, the old flea pit. Also on Billy Bacon's Field, Vernon Park and watching old Basford United, and making a lot of a... [more]
Shared on 28 January 2009
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... [more]
Shared on 07 March 2009
Extracts From Hucknall & Nottinghamshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Hucknall, inspired by Frith photos.
Nottinghamshire Living Memories
From Newstead Abbey the route heads four miles south to Hucknall, which also has Byronic associations: in this church Byron was buried in the family vault after his body had been brought home from Greece in 1824. St Mary Magdalene's church runs west from the Market Place and was heavily Victorianised and extended – the new chancel's foundation stone was laid by the Duke... [more]
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Nottinghamshire Living Memories
Hucknall, surrounded by coal mining villages and with its own sprawling suburbs, grew greatly in Victorian times but did not acquire much architecture of distinction. The north side of the Market Place (still a car park) was dominated by the Co-op, which expanded into the right-hand corner building of 1898. The statue in the niche on the left is of Byron. Currently (2003) all the... [more]
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Nottingham Photographic Memories
Electric trams were now replacing horse trams and rebuilding was taking place on Long Row. In the background is the Exchange; although the largest building in the market place, it was not grand or overpowering.
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