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

8 May 2021 / Photos

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…

26 September 2019 / Historic Events
1 September 2019 / Historic Events

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.

1 September 2019 / Historic Events

Bridges have been removed and made safer but not do not look as artistic.

1 September 2019 / Historic Events

A snapshot in time how things were in the 1970s.

1 September 2019 / Photos

Roads were sooo busy in the 1960s!

1 September 2019 / Photos

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…

12 May 2019 / Historic Events

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…

12 March 2019 / Churches

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…

23 March 2018 / Historic Events

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…