Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire
Newstead Abbey photos
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Newstead Abbey maps
Historic maps of Newstead Abbey and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Newstead Abbey maps
Newstead Abbey books
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Memories of Newstead Abbey
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Nottinghamshire memories
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
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
I recall living at 163 Mansfield Road in 1947, when we had real winter, close to Kitty Hibberts shop, this is now a Chinese takeaway. Across the road was cobbler Betts Hut at the top of Barnes Street, on the opposite corner was a walled allotment owned by a Mr. Horace Slack, this allotment had several apple trees, which we took... [more]
Shared on 05 May 2008
During my schooldays I often visited Eastwood from Hucknall, my mate David Scrimshaw and I had many happy times there. We were travelling back to Hucknall one day on the bus, and two girls waved to us from a small park near hilltop. We got off and asked them for a date, they both accepted. My date's name was Irene and... [more]
Shared on 29 June 2009
Eastwood, Beauvale School 1956
I started Beauvale School in 1956 when I was 5 years old. At that time I lived with my parents at number 53 Raglan Street, Hilltop. I walked to school and back every day with my mum. I have fond memories of the old school and was there for 6 years and then my dad found work outside of Nottingham. My... [more]
Shared on 21 July 2008
The lady on the photo is my Mum. She was waiting to meet me out of Beauvale School. The baby in the pram was a neighbour's little girl, my friend Teresa. ( We are still friends today.) Teresa was 10 years younger than me, so I would be nearly 11 at that time.
Years later, from 1965-67, after 7 years... [more]
Shared on 03 April 2007
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
I was nursing at the hospital from December 1952, and the photo that is shown is of the old Nurses' Home, which you went into in your second year, or when on night duty in the part of the building at a right angle on the left. This meant that you had a single room instead of sharing. All the sisters... [more]
Shared on 21 October 2009
Extracts From Newstead Abbey & Nottinghamshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Newstead Abbey, inspired by Frith photos.
Nottinghamshire Living Memories
Newstead was inherited by the 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' poet Lord Byron in 1798 as a virtual ruin, and he sold it in 1817. A previous Lord Byron, the fifth, an ex-Naval man, had a warship in the lake and built mock forts around its edges in the 1770s; this one is the only survivor, and is in fact a conversion... [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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Nottingham Photographic Memories
On the left is the Talbot, which was opened in 1874 as a drinking palace - it was filled with sculptures and bronzes. In 1929, Yates Wine Lodges bought the Talbot and it still remains a great attraction.
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