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  • David Middleton on Walter MillerDear Joan Many thanks for letting us know that the link to Walter Miller's diary no longer works. We will...
  • Joan Sparks on Walter MillerHi I am a decendant of Walter Miller and would love to locate his WW1 Diaries mentioned above. The link...
  • Roger Goult on My Dewey family treeAfter a web search have come across your family history page relating to the Dewey surname. My mother's maiden name...
  • Paul Dowsett (prev Tinkler) on Winter snowsI remember the snow of 1979. I was at school in Melton Mowbray (boarding school), and I can still remember...
  • David Middleton on Leicestershire Regiment (?) – World War I.Hi Karen Further details of Charles Edwin Conquest's service and loss can be found at https://www.leicestershirewarmemorials.co.uk/war/casualty/view/3019
  • Sandra on Aerial picture of Rectory Farm and the end of Pinfold LaneHello! My Grandfather (John Walter Cooper) lived in a cottage in a paddock of The Nook when he was about...
  • Sandra on John Walter CooperHello! Walter was also my Grandfather. I am one of Winifred's daughters (Winifred is mentioned above as born in 1916...
  • james Drury on Charles Cecil GaleCharles Gale RFA 608335 had the middle name Henry his service records survives. This may rule him out.
  • Nicola Devas on Gentlemen of the Kirk familyPart of the Kirk family moved from Bottesford to Retford to work on the railway and then moved from there...
  • Martin Craven on St Helens parish church, Plungar, in the 1890sInteresting. I went to school with Dorothy Kirk. Happy memories of Plunger and Barkestone. Martin Craven ( son of Revd...
  • David Middleton on Ernest Henry JallandsMany thanks Sylvia. Should you wish us to add a photograph of the spurs to this page please send one...
  • Sylvia NEE JALLANDS on Ernest Henry JallandsErnest Henry Jallands was my grandfather Ernest William being my dad. It makes me so proud reading all the history...
  • Sylvia NEE JALLANDS on Wedding group outside the church porchThis looks like Brian Jallands & Mays wedding. The small girls mother is Jean Wilkinson at far right of picture...
  • Dafydd Dewey on My Dewey family treeWendi that's wonderful. It's a shame that they've built houses on what was once my Granny's garden and orchard.
  • Alois Korinek on Farewell to the Red Lion?A bit sad. My friend and our goalkeeper for Bottesford Young Lions lived there in the 80's (Chris Kay). I...
  • Linda Szemerej on Arthur William WardEmma ASHER (Ward, Jallands) was my great great Granny. She seemed a formidable woman.
  • Alex Greenwood on Flight LM311, RAAF 467 SquadronJack Greenwood was also my uncle, and has always been remembered by the family and by his widow Mildred who...
  • Kevin Bryan on William (Bill) Bryan, c.1940I was fascinated to read about Bill Bryan on your website, as Bill's brother Ernest was my grandfather.He lived in...
  • Sharon Burke on JD Robinson’s butchers shopJohn Daybell Robinson is the younger brother of my great grandfather James William Robinson, who migrated to Australia in 1883,...
  • Marcus Pearson on Chapter 7: ‘Yours in memory’My Grandfather was Sergeant Arthur Pearson, the pilot of L7385 EM-U that collided with R5550 on the runway, resulting in...
  • David Middleton on Muston School in 1940Hi Sylvia There is no Humnanby Street in Muston. Muston is near Bottesford in Leicestershire not Bottesford in north Lincolnshire....
  • Sylvia taylor on Muston School in 1940Does anybody remember the twin girls who lived at no 1 Hunmanby Street l was a pen friend to them...
  • Paul palmer on Chapter 13: ‘He will be greatly missed and mourned’James Lee was grandad on my Mums side, I was told that Gomm actually pushed him out of the burning...
  • Karen on Leicestershire Regiment (?) – World War I.Hi looking for any information on Charles E Conquest. I know he was in 2nd leicester and died in action...
  • Michael Bradshaw on Bottesford juniors football teamI was the goalkeeper in the photo, centre back row. From memory, it was taken in Grantham and not Bottesford...

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