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…
Category: People
We have had some memorable people living in Tollerton and some people have given their personal memories too. If you have a memory you would like to share, let us know and we can add that on to the site.
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…
Found in the ‘Belfast Telegraph’, published 20 July 1874. The case was widely reported across the UK.
Tollerton 21.11.2019 Two photos of Melton Road, near Edwalton taken in 1999. These photos took me back to the ‘good old days’ when travelling to and from Tollerton on this…
I’ve just come across the page of the Visit of Old St Hugh’s pupils to Tollerton Hall in May 2016. I was interested to see that the model railway was…
Article by Colin Ferguson (from Tollerton Village Newsletter April 2019) Do you remember the Tollerton Morris Men? The origins of this remarkable group of locals go back to the construction…
Iris Stirland’s Memories of 1940-1945 In 1986 the Tollerton Village Newsletter featured an article written by Iris Stirland about the family’s experiences between 1940 and 1945. Originally this was published…
What a delightful afternoon Linda Swann (nee Morris) and I (Barbara Storrie) had when we visited Mrs Gretton this afternoon! She is 101 years old, takes a keep fit class…