These notes were provided for VLHG members as background reading prior to our walk on…
History Trevor Buck (in a paper entitled ‘Corporation Oaks’, 1983) tells us that Thomas Hawksley…
Michael Smith has an old connection with the Vernon Arms and I spotted these two…
Mansfield Road /Mapperley Road Nottingham Talk will cover: Background to the building of St Andrew’s…
This is a personal view, but I think there are three different aspects to researching…
1. Introduction This presentation covers the whole period from 1885 when The Gordon Boys Home…
With the passing of the Enclosure Act for Nottingham in 1845, the Enclosure Commissioners (Secretary…
When Edwin Patchitt died without heir in 1888, Thomas Isaac Birkin (1831 – 1923) bought…
What to expect. This story was first told as a commentary on the maps and…