Julian Fisher contacted us with details on when his mother, Brenda Dixon who came from Hucknall, was a teenager. She loved aeroplanes and wanted to become involved with ‘Blue Line…
Category: Wars: I, II & Crimean
Many thanks to Liam Kershaw for giving us this information on the detonation that many heard on 4th October 2024 when the bomb squad paid a visit to Tollerton Hall…
The 507th were the American platoon that commandeered Tollerton Hall during the Second World War. In 1987 they presented a memorial print and a plaque to the Hall which remained…
William Alfred Randale Foster is remembered on Tollerton’s war memorial. He was an Aircraftsman Ist Class with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. A married man, he lived on Medina…
The Story Behind Two American Dog Tags Tollerton residents who attended the history group’s event entitled ‘The Treasure Trove’ back in 2019 may recall the story behind the American Paratrooper…
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…