Misterton, All Saints Church 1960
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Moving on to the far north-east corner of the county, we reach Misterton. It is situated in the drained fenland and carrs (copses) to the west of the River Trent, through which meanders the River Idle on its way to meet the river at West Stockwith. A long straggling village on a (very) low ridge, Misterton has its medieval parish church at its north end, with a fine stained glass window by John Piper in the Lady Chapel added in 1965. The house with the butcher's shop on the right was demolished in the 1960s for road improvement.

Memories of Misterton, All Saints Church 1960

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This is the place where in the early 1960s I took my mother to visit and stay with her sister Bertha. During our stay my mother and Bertha (there was another sister called Freda, she moved to Hull with her husband Walt who was a dead ringer for a star of the time Victor Mature - he really was) took me to the graveyard. Out front was the headstone of my great something ...see more
One of the 'treasures' of Church Corner, Misterton was the Post Office which was run by Dorothy and Gordon. I often visited there as Dorothy was the sister of my boyfriend at that time. Nearby was Walter Scott who was the butcher who went to School with my Mother, Minnie Butroid, one of a very well known and respected Misterton families. Walter made the best sausages and any time my Mother and I visited ...see more