One of the most satisfying aspects of managing the Mapperley People page is the enthusiasm of local people to help others in researching and identifying family history. After the death of his ‘Nan’, Robin Phillips was sorting through her personal effects and discovered an item [ … ]
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Memories Of The Old St Ann’s
A book was published by Plowright Press in 2002: St Ann’s Nottingham: Inner-City Voices was a compilation of memories written by people who lived and worked in St Ann’s before the demolition of the homes in the 1970s. 30,000 people were rehomed and some left, [ … ]
A Tribute to St Anns Allotments
Thanks to http://www.porchesterpress.co.uk/ for allowing us to use this poetic tribute to the allotments at Hungerhill. The Soil is all the Richer The soil is all the richer, to have formed on Hungerhill Years of cultivation and domestication, with little time to play Industrial winds [ … ]