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…
Category: 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…
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…
The year was 1971 when my then 5 year old daughter walked through the gates of Tollerton Primary School, all excited and happy I knew I was leaving her in…
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…
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…
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…