Sutton-On-Trent
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Map of Nottinghamshire
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Sutton-On-Trent books (3 available)
Newark Photographic Memories
Paperback
Nottinghamshire Living Memories
Hardback
Nottinghamshire Pocket Album
Paperback
- 12 photos on Sutton-On-Trent appear in 5 Frith books - View photos of Sutton-On-Trent
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Family History
My Great Grandparents Albert Wells and Edith Ann Judson married in this church on 24th December 1912. Edith was born Judson and was born at Holme and so may have been Baptised in this church as well.
A memory of Holme contributed by julie morgan
The Purewell Japanese Garden
While visiting my sister-in-law Margaret Paine in nearby North Muskham, I discovered this exquisitely beautiful Japanese garden. Known as the Pureland Japanese Garden and Meditation Centre it is in North Clifton.
It appears to have been built by one man (Buddha Maitreya) over many years and is truly staggering in its simple beauty. How can one man have taken a couple of acres of flat land and transofomed it with his bare hands to a landscape of humps, hollows, trees and water. Once seen but never forgotten. A tranquil place that lends itself to higher self-awareness, and meditation.
It is beautiful!
A memory of North Clifton contributed by John Howard Norfolk
My Ancestors
My mother Alice Harpham & family lived here. She was born 1904 at Dunham, along with John Thomas, Rose, Herbert, Edith, Margaret, & Sydney John. When I searched my family tree, I had been told by my cousin Evelyn in 1980 that my grandma Eliza [nee Todd, originally from Ripon] was found dead in the attic with her throat cut. Eventually I found it was in 1927. Thomas Harpham, their grandad, was the shoemaker, trained by John Harpham in the 1800s. The Whate family are also included, they had a shop on the main street. I was fortunate to meet a lady from Retford, via advert I placed in Retford Times, and I went to her home, and she took me ...read more here
A memory of Dunham-On-Trent contributed by marion wilkinson
My Grandad
The funeral of my grandad, Joseph Cobb, was the last one to take place at St Leonard's Church before it was demolished.
A memory of Newark contributed by Wendy Scatcherd
Extracts From Sutton-On-Trent & Nottinghamshire books
This tranquil scene shows the Gothic-style brick Methodist church of 1878, beyond creeper-clad number 37 in the foreground. The road now has pavements on each side and modern infill houses at various points. Cornelius Brown wrote in 1896 that the village is ‘a populous place, famous for having given its name to one of the oldest and most influential of our local families – a family that gave Earls to Warwick and Leicester, and Lords to Lexington and Dudley’.
An extract from from"English Villages".
This 1878-built Primary
School is still in use
today, though an
extension was built to
the right of it about 30
years ago. The turret
and spirelet have been
removed and this part
is now known as the
Victoria Building.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".
This is a typical Nottinghamshire brick tower mill, tall and black-tarred. The photograph shows the mill in full
working order. It was built in 1825, and ceased work by wind in about 1930 and by engine in 1940; the cap
was removed in 1934. It is now converted to a private house.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Beautiful Villages".
From Southwell the tour heads
north-east back to the River
Trent north of Newark and on
to Sutton-on-Trent. The village
lies just off the old Great North
Road, whose dual carriageway
successor passes it half a mile
to the west. This view shows the
banks of the Trent from a path
through the water meadows,
which were drained in the
1850s. Cattle still graze here, but
beyond the left-hand dredging
barges the view north is now
dominated by the cooling towers
and chimneys of High Marnham
Power Station, opened in 1962.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".
Owned by British Railways,
a steam engine is shown
hauling a goods train north on
the east coast main line. The
photograph was taken from
a bridge built in the 1930s to
replace the delay-producing
level-crossing which carried the
Great North Road. The station
has now been demolished and
the telegraph poles have come
down, but the Nag’s Head
pub is still there.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".