It is interesting to see how time has eroded brick. The pinnacles were no longer safe on the top of the church and had to be removed and the placque…
Tollerton Village History Group Posts
Article by Colin Ferguson (from Tollerton Village Newsletter April 2019) Do you remember the Tollerton Morris Men? The origins of this remarkable group of locals go back to the construction…
Edward, Prince of Wales, often flew into Tollerton Aerodrome in the 1920s and 1930s when attending both official and social events. Of course between 1927 and 1933 he owned Grove…
In March 2016 the Tollerton Village History Group acquired the Vestry Minute Book for Tollerton containing all entries between 1854 and 1935 – what a find! The initial entry, in…
A newspaper article, dated 28 September 1917, which was published in the ‘Mansfield Reporter’ reported that two German escapees had been found lying asleep in a wood at Tollerton by…
Iris Stirland’s Memories of 1940-1945 In 1986 the Tollerton Village Newsletter featured an article written by Iris Stirland about the family’s experiences between 1940 and 1945. Originally this was published…
What a delightful afternoon Linda Swann (nee Morris) and I (Barbara Storrie) had when we visited Mrs Gretton this afternoon! She is 101 years old, takes a keep fit class…
As l remember, the school was split into two groups – the older children and the younger children. The younger children had a classroom behind and attached to the main…