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…
Category: Personal Memories
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…
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…
Many thanks to Maureen for writing this article. We ‘found’ Maureen when one of the ‘old boys’ was visiting the Hall in 2016 and recalled a ‘Mrs Lillie’ that taught…
Tracing Tollerton born ancestors Links between the Porter, Garton and Whittaker families When Yvonne and Lewis Raven moved from Stapleford to Tollerton in 1978 they knew little about the village…