Category: Personal Memories

11 October 2016 / People
8 August 2016 / Personal Memories

 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…

25 May 2016 / People

A few memories from Hilda Clarke –ex-Tollerton resident. I lived on Lothian Road between 1958-1979 and now live at Holme Pierrepont My husband was Kenneth Cooper Clarke  and he died…

11 April 2016 / People
29 September 2015 / Airport
29 September 2015 / Airport

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…

29 September 2015 / People

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…

29 June 2015 / People

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…

17 June 2015 / People

Dorothy Singleton’s memories  were presented to the Tollerton Friendship Club on 5 September, 1991. Dorothy lived on Melton Road but we are unsure of when she moved to Tollerton; she died…

17 June 2015 / People

Jim’s recordings about the second World War can be found via this link: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80024314 The following story was written by Jim Blackburn (1920-2007) for the Tollerton newsletter. (Jim lived and…