Hi Jason. I attended Chapel St School in the 60's and still live in Kirkby. Regarding the Co-op/Sherwood House Inn - it was always known as the "Thack". The house to it's left was reputedly haunted.

Love the shot going through the church gate! 👍🏼

@MrWhitby

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! :-)

An interesting fact about the Kirkby Cross is that if you look closely enough you can see a lighter section of the stone; and that's because sometime back in perhaps 2013~ if memory serves me well, a drunk driver crashed into it and broke off the top part. It was then reassembled but the faint scar can be seen going through it still.

@MrWhitby

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes thanks for that reminder, and such a shame that happened!

Very interesting. I was born at 14 Orchard Road and lived there until I was 6 in 1964. Am I right in thinking that Orchard Primary School would have been called Chapel Street School when I went there aged 5 for about a year? I live on Merseyside these days but still have a relative in Kirkby.

@MrWhitby

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Tony, thank you for your comments. Yes, I do believe you are right. You remember Church Street school, as well, I'm sure. I need to check with the folks, things must've changed at some point, I seem to recall going to "Orchard" as my infant/preschool, Church Street as well, maybe I was in the middle of the transition, as I went to Greenwood Primary, then Ashfield Comp. I remember a local history walk at school, and we covered old Kirkby. I'm surprised how little information is online at present, there used to be a good local history website but I couldn't find it. When lockdown eases, I'll wander into some bookshops and see if I can find some good books. Definitely an interesting area for history!

@dkb1234567890

Жыл бұрын

@@MrWhitby when you went down a lane opposite Orchard road there was an old Railway Station, when I was there it was abandoned and still had all the old books and ledgers in it, I believe it was victim to the Beeching cuts, My mother told me that when she visited my Aunt in1960 she would haul me in a pram from Mansfield over the footbridge, which I don't remember seeing later on I believe it is now part of the Rood Hood Line but I think it is not the current Station

My Great Uncle and Aunt, Alf and Eva Howling ran the Billard Hall for many years, he got the money from working at Ollerton pit during the war. I think he bought it in 1948 until the 1980s, the school next to it was Chapel St, and there was a pathway down the side which was an Orchard with apple trees, it doesn't look like it was then, the Hall had railings in front and a lot of overgrown trees and there were steps up the foreground. the Thack was where Alf and my Dad used to go drinking on Saturday nights after he locked up, there was a working man's club further up the hill, The Normanton that was popular As kids, we played all over this area, there was the REC [playground] which you entered up a lane which ran through a Farm Yard which was owned by my Aunt Annie, just on the left of the Cross. St Wilfreds was where my parents married in 1952 because my mother moved into the Hall after her father died, in Nuncargate on Fisher St, it was a very big Kirkby family, the Griffins, I believe there was 1 boy and 8 girls and hundreds of cousins . I was born in Clipstone so never lived there, but had some very good memories of the visits My mother told us as kids they stood on the REC and watched the enemy planes bomb Nottingham and then move on to Sheffield, the fires burned all night and lit up the sky. Across the road from the Hall was a farm with a couple of petrol pumps and a repair workshop and some barns, the locals gathered there to practise shooting targets with shotguns on a Saturday afternoon, My father was one of the local policemen in 1949

@MrWhitby

Жыл бұрын

Thank you this is amazing information! I'm hoping to do a deeper dive into the history one day. I appreciate this video barely scratches the surface. Thanks again!

As a Kirkby lad I really don't class Kirkby cross and the the way to pinxton as being Kirkby just saying