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Palterton maps
Historic maps of Palterton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Palterton maps
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Palterton area books
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Memories of Palterton
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Grannys House
my grandparents lived at 77 Old Hill, third house just behind tree, Mr and Mrs Thomas. I lived there till they built the Wimpy estate on fields behind my mum and dad, then got a council house. I loved living on the old hill, the family next door I am still friends with. That big tree in front of the houses used to have a tree swing, all the kids used to have a swing on it. A lot of children lived in the other houses you can see and nearly all still live in Bolsover.
School Days in Bolsover
Friday market coming home from welbeck road school through the market down castle lane to carr vale with a 1d hovis loaf in my hand
Life on The Wimpey Estate
8 Manor Court Road. I used to live there as a child, up to the time shortly before my mum died. We had moved to Carr Vale by then. I always remember Auntie Elaine next door and that the kids all called me Mister Softie because when the ice cream man came and played his jingle I always went running into the street, wanting an ice cream. I also used to have to walk across Castle Fields every day to go to school in Carr Vale. Great in the summer but it wasn't so good in the snow!
Memories of When I Was A Youngster
I remember watching rail embankment being removed with earth moving machines. The village hall at the model village. Types of equipment on recreation ground below Bainbridge Hall. Tunnel to Scareclif filled and blocked. Walking round large market on Kitchen Croft which has a signpost naming it Town End car park. Old buildings. My school on Welbeck Road. Tennis courts on Horncroft recrreation park. Markham and Bolsver pits. Mercol which had station buildings in use.
Doe Lea in WW2
I arrived in Doe Lea in June 1940 with other evacuees from Lowestoft, Suffolk. I lived in Doe Lea untill 1944. At first we were not accepted by the local children, eventually we mingled and became friends, since the war have been back many times and visited various friends.
Sadly the village was razed to the ground and most of the villagers moved elsewhere. I strolled around this summer what is now called The Brambles but nothing is the same as it was and I think every thing is spoilt.
My war-time education was at Stainsby School which stood me in good stead all my working life.
I chuckle at times when I think what us kids got up to in the wartime black out.
I think that all us ex-evacuees left a bit of ourselves in Doe Lea when we left and came back to Lowestoft.
Incidents Remembered
Doe Lea was near to Hardwick which during the Second World War was an Airborne training camp, we could go into Hardwick and watch troops jump out of a balloon, they had to jump from a balloon a few times before jumping from a plane, I remember a lad had picked up some shrapnel which he had put into his pocket which burned a hole in his jacket. The incident I remember very clearly was when one evening a group of us children were playing on the top row of Doe Lea, it was during the evening, two lads came running towards us saying they had found a hand grenade, one of the lads had it in his hand. As he showed us, one of the lads grabbed the grenade and pulled the pin, it started smoking so it was dropped and we all scarpered, it exploded but no one was hurt, a piece of shrapnel went through a window of a house and smashed a picture on the wall. Another incident... Read more
Doe Lea
I remember playing in the streets when there was back to back houses before they knocked them down. I moved just before then, as far as I know I've still got relatives in Glapwell. I am related to the Blueits Blewits who lived there .
