I read your article with great interest and enjoyment about last year’s old boys tour of Tollerton Hall. I was unaware of the event and would have loved to have…
Category: Places
Significant buildings in Tollerton
The following brief item about the church was published in the ‘Local Interest’ column of the Nottingham Evening Post on 27 October, 1906. “One of the most interesting churches in…
Pacy/Pacey, Leeson and Kettleburn are all old Tollerton family names dating back to the late 1600s. All these families were referred to in Sidney Potter’s ‘A History of Tollerton’ published…
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…
Some ex pupils from St Hugh’s arranged to visit the Hall and one of the history group tagged along to record their memories. There were about 15 old schoolboys from…
Those who have purchased a copy of the history group’s book (‘Tollerton: A Village History’) will have seen that delightful poem about the village written by Frank Joseph Plowright. Some…
Encounters with Nature The following piece entitled ‘Summer Sanctuary’ was written by two students at St Hugh’s College and was published in 1953 in ‘The Hugonian’ which was the college magazine.…