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…
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.
Until the 1930 – 1950s expansion of housing Tollerton was a small rural village. In the 19th century the population fluctuated around 150 persons. By 1911 there were 168 residents…
In the mid 1940s, the American troops were stationed at the airport and the grounds adjacent to Hall Farm. As a lad in my early teens, I attended Musters Road…
This excerpt was written by Miss Dodd in 1935 and reproduced a lot later in one of the Village Newsletters: The average pilot takes about eight hours of instruction, given…
Taken from the Tollerton Village Newsletter of November 2002 On October 4th, I was driving with Norma Lewis, the retired Director of Nottinghamshire Wild Life Trust. We were on Tollerton…
These photographs were owned by former Tollerton resident, Peggy Heason, and given to Alison May of Tollerton some years ago. Our thanks go to Alison for sharing them. The following…
These photographs were owned by former Tollerton resident, Peggy Heason, and given to Alison May of Tollerton some years ago. Our thanks go to Alison for sharing them. …
Memories of Tollerton in the 1940s taken from the December 2005 newsletter I lived at Frankley Croft, Tollerton Lane, between 1938 and 1947, with my parents, John and Lily Connelly and…
The Women’s Institute 25th Anniversary party in 1962 The following article appeared in the Notts Newspaper January 27, 1962 When Tollerton Women’s Institute celebrated its 25th birthday…