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…
Tollerton (Notts) Village History Group Posts
The Queen celebrated her Platinum Jubilee and invited the Country to have a picnic together. The date was Sunday 5th June 2022. We were all prepared to celebrate at Hunter’s…
Early Inn From references in Potter’s publication ‘A History of Tollerton’ (1929) there is evidence that suggests there was once an inn in Tollerton in the mid-1300s called the ‘John…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It is with a heavy heart that we heard the sad news of Mrs Gretton’s passing Doreen had been a deputy head in West Bridgford and applied to be head…