Category: GOING OFF AT TANGENTS
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Kirkby Smallpox Hospital
Redundant Kirkby Hospital is for Sale When going through the archives of Notts Free Press held at Sutton Library recently, I stumbled across an article from 1950 entitled “Redundant Kirkby Hospital is for Sale”. This referred to a Smallpox Hospital on Doles Lane and a report about it to Kirkby Urban District Council. Apparently, the…
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Station Street Then and Now
Introduction In order to better understand Station Street in Kirkby, where my grandad had a business for many years, I initially compiled a walk up and down Station Street. This developed into detailed posts for each building on Station Street. I have presented these to two local Facebook groups in the format of a walk up and down…
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Market Hall/Festival Hall/Leisure Centre
Introduction In order to better understand Station Street in Kirkby, where my grandad had a business for many years, I initially compiled a walk up and down Station Street. This developed into detailed posts for each building on Station Street. As part of that process, I wrote posts for each of the roads that intersects…
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Buses in Kirkby
Buses in the Diaries The family diaries contain quite a lot of detail about different means of transport. Given that grandma and grandad did not get a car until 1955, it is not surprising that there was a lot of emphasis on using buses particularly before that time. Mansfield to Bulwell One of grandad’s first…
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Jack Hibbert
Grandad’s 1933 Diary Yesterday, I was reviewing grandad’s 1933 diary to catalogue any films he saw or books he read that year. This is because I am creating indexes of all the films he saw and books he read. However, he did not record any in 1933. Entry Concerning Jack Hibbert I did come across…
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Cowpastures
Unfamiliar Geography One of the challenges of understanding my grandfather’s and mother’s diaries has been mastering, what to me has been, the relatively unfamiliar geography of Kirkby in Ashfield. This is because although I was born in Kirkby, we moved away when I was a baby and I have never lived there. I have described…
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Visiting 166 Drayton High Road in May 2023
Grandma and Grandad Moved to Norwich in 1963 Grandma and grandad moved from Kirkby to Norwich in October 1963, following our earlier move in 1960, see Chapter 76. Initially, they rented a flat, 45 Lilburne Avenue. Building a Bungalow Grandma and grandad purchased land on Drayton High Road and had a bungalow built there. Building…
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A Nostalgic Walk in the Peak District
August 2023 In August 2023, I dragged my long-suffering wife, Jo, on a seven-day walking holiday in the Peak District. To be fair, she did not need that much dragging as she loves walking and has her own memories of previous visits to the Peak District. Inspired by Earlier Youth Hostelling Trips For me, this…
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A Grocer’s Token
Recently, I came across this token for sale on eBay. I was intrigued by the reference to Kirkby Folly. So, I decided to buy it even though I did not know precisely what it was! Kirkby Folly I already knew that Kirkby Folly was the original name for the East Kirkby part of Kirkby. This…