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…
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
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…
Here are some articles from 1976 that featured news that we had a Lion in Tollerton! Several newspapers carried this story from the Evening post and local papers to Newark…
Celebrations at Tollerton in 1862 The following article appeared in the Nottinghamshire Guardian on Friday, 14 November 1862 when the village celebrated the Prince of Wales’ coming of age. The…
William Hickling was born at Keyworth in 1835 but lived all his married life in Tollerton through to his death in 1909. As far as we are aware, he was…