Early Inn From references in Potter’s publication ‘A History of Tollerton’ (1929) there is evidence that suggests there was once an inn in Tollerton in the mid-1300s called the ‘John…
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Introduction In the past families were far more self-sufficient particularly in terms of food provisions and everyday items. Residents were also far more in tune with seasonal crops and, in…
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…
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…