Category: Personal Memories

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…