We lost count of the number of people who attended the ‘Treasure Trove’ afternoon held in the Parish Rooms on Saturday 5th October. The room was buzzing at one point…
Category: Historic Events
Significant events that have happened in the past and events the History Group have put on, including photos from the past and articles from newspapers
Old photos taken from the archives of Alan Woodcock – a bit of an eclectic mix! Click on each one to enable you to see the picture in more detail.
It is interesting to see how time has eroded brick. The pinnacles were no longer safe on the top of the church and had to be removed and the placque…
Edward, Prince of Wales, often flew into Tollerton Aerodrome in the 1920s and 1930s when attending both official and social events. Of course between 1927 and 1933 he owned Grove…
In March 2016 the Tollerton Village History Group acquired the Vestry Minute Book for Tollerton containing all entries between 1854 and 1935 – what a find! The initial entry, in…
A newspaper article, dated 28 September 1917, which was published in the ‘Mansfield Reporter’ reported that two German escapees had been found lying asleep in a wood at Tollerton by…