Written by Peter Brooker including some detail his father, Albert Brooker, had put together for an article in the Tollerton News in 1994. My father, Albert Brooker came from a…
Tollerton Village History Group Posts
There are two distinct differences between Russell’s Farm and the other former Tollerton Hall Estate farms. One is its location being somewhat detached from the old village and all the…
On looking through the mountains of information we have collected for the history, we found some more recollections from Mike Connelly (see this link for the original piece added to…
Remember when the shelves were mostly empty? Thank goodness we’ve got past that stage! And we’ve accepted a new normal of face masks, hand sanitiser and keeping our distance as…
It is with a heavy heart that we heard the sad news of Mrs Gretton’s passing Doreen had been a deputy head in West Bridgford and applied to be head…
by Barbara Storrie (née Blackburn) 2020 OWNERSHIP I have known the farmhouse from the 1950s up to 2009. Parts of Hall Farm house, I believe, dates back to c1600. Research…
It’s amazing what we find when we have time on our hands and that’s one thing a lot of people, have found they have had with the Covid 19 pandemic…
The following article entitled ‘Tollerton Hall’ was published in the West Bridgford Advertiser on Saturday, 25 August, 1923. This would have been when Alice M Burnside resided at Tollerton Hall.…
Visit to Chestnut Farm undertaken by Barbara Storrie and Liz Fradd on Thursday 21st November 2019 A survey taken by the WI in 1975 stated that Chestnut Farm was built…