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The Hornbuckle Family
On my grandmother's side, the Hornbuckle family dates back to this Church and this town from the early 1500's. So if you see any headstone's in the local cemetary saying HORNBUCKLE, "GAULTER OR WALTER", they are related to me.
He actually left his money to the Church for needed repairs and for something called MILN Brig....if anyone knows what that is.
Contributed by Susan Shaw
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES 1939-1945.
My Dad, Sid Brooks was the rural village police constable (P.c.200) for Cropwell Butler, Cropwell Bishop and Tythby We, Mum (Dorothy) and my younger brother Mick lived in the Police House on Radcliffe Road, There was an old fashioned stem type phone connected to the manual exchange. Dad’s means of transport for work was a sit up and beg style Raleigh pedal cycle. See also 'Police House 1939-1946).
In the centre of the village, behind the green the kids spent many hours watching Mr Harrison at work,in his forge making horse shoes or wrought iron items and shoeing horses.
Nearby was Cheetham’s Bakery, Cheetham who delivered bread with a horse and ...read more here
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Police House 1939-45.
The Police House was located on Radcliffe Road, Cropwell Butler. (now called 'The Old Police House'). On the front wall it bore a sign bearing the words 'County Police'. From 1939 to 1945 it was occupied by the Village Constable, P.c.200 Sidney Brooks, his wife Dorothy and sons Peter, born 1936 (the writer, now living in OZ) and Michael, born 1939 (now living at Whatton). There was an old fashioned stem type phone connected to the manual exchange. I think the number was Radcliffe 139. To operate, it was necessary to turn a handle on a box and await a response from the operator. The system was powered by a wet cell battery. Sid's means of transport for work was a ...read more here
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Nottinghamshire memories
Shopping memories.
This photograph shows two ladies chatting together in the foreground. On the right in the floral dress is my mother Mrs Beatrice Farnsworth. My family have been farmers in the locality for three generations. My mother's car is parked on the road just behind her. The shop to the side is Perham Cox, which was a family grocer, which also delivered groceries to our house on a weekly basis. The other lady is Mrs Jean Salmon who was also married to a local farmer.
The way shopping was done in those days involved parking at the top of Bridge Street and moving the car down the hill as each shop was visited. This is now a pedestrian area. The only shiop I ...read more here
A memory of Worksop contributed by Mrs H Levack
Extracts From Cropwell Butler & Nottinghamshire books
Two miles south of Langold, Carlton in Lindrick is a village of two parts, the original village to the
south and a large former colliery village with hard red brick semi-detached houses. At the heart of
the old village to the west of the Doncaster Road is the parish church with its fine Anglo-Saxon west
tower. This view is of the Norman west door in the tower, which was moved from the nave in 1831.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".
Immediately south-
west of the village
and approached
via Church Street is
Langold Country Park,
dominated by a fine
lake. It was laid out
as the landscaped
park to a country
house that was never
built, although the
foundations were laid
in 1818. Acquired by
the Coal Board, the
park was managed as
a recreational facility
for their mining
village of Langold.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".
When the Coal Board closed
the mine, the park was
taken over by Worksop Rural
District Council; in 1974 it
passed to the new Bassetlaw
District Council, who now
administer it. To the south
of the lake the Coal Board
built a children’s swimming
pool. It was later made
rectangular, but now appears
disused and empty of water.
The buildings have been
demolished, but the park
is well used and the lake is
popular with fishermen.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".
Continuing south towards
Worksop on the A60, the
route reaches Langold,
situated a mile south of
Oldcotes. The village was
built to house the coalminers
of nearby Costhorpe Colliery,
now closed. Out of view on
the left is the village, mostly
neat former 1950s Coal
Board and council houses,
and on the right is the main
shopping parade along the
Doncaster Road. The village
had its own cinema, the
Palace, the white building
with the semi-circular
pediment; it is now a bar and
snooker hall.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".
Frith’s photographer
was looking from the
front of the Waterfront
Inn towards the Trent
lock, with the old
lock keeper’s cottage
to its left and the
warehouse to its right.
The building at the
far right now houses
the West Stockwith
Yacht Club, and was
extended in the 1970s.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".