Tollerton (Notts) Village History Group Posts

29 April 2023 / Book

Most of the oldest properties in the village cluster around the Hall and Church. Many were originally cottages for the workers on the Tollerton Estate and their families and were…

3 April 2023 / Book

Introduction Many will know that there are two villages in England called Tollerton although they are about 100 miles apart. One is situated in North Yorkshire and the other is…

28 March 2023 / Book

We published our book ‘Tollerton: A Village History’ in 2015. After 2 print runs the history group decided not to invest in a third print run but to upload the…

16 February 2023 / Uncategorised

We received a book via Vernon Birkinshaw that was used for the Tollerton Clothing Club. The initial date inside the book is 1904. A clothing club was one in which…

12 June 2022 / Historic Events
6 January 2022 / Book

Introduction In the past families were far more self-sufficient particularly in terms of food provisions and everyday items. Residents were also far more in tune with seasonal crops and, in…

23 November 2021 / Farms

Written by Peter Brooker including some detail his father, Albert Brooker, had put together for an article in the Tollerton News in 1994. My father, Albert Brooker came from a…

23 November 2021 / Farms

There are two distinct differences between Russell’s Farm and the other former Tollerton Hall Estate farms. One is its location being somewhat detached from the old village and all the…

10 November 2021 / People

On looking through the mountains of information we have collected for the history, we found some more recollections from Mike Connelly (see this link for the original piece added to…

8 May 2021 / Photos

Remember when the shelves were mostly empty? Thank goodness we’ve got past that stage! And we’ve accepted a new normal of face masks, hand sanitiser and keeping our distance as…