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I went to Warsop Vale school in 1969, having moved to Sookholme for a short while with my parents.  I have very fond memories of the school and my teacher, Mrs. Ledbeater/Ledbetter was wonderful.  At the time they taught a very strange method of spelling that was based on phonetics (I imagine it was short-lived) and so, at the age of eight, my spelling was atrocious!  I clearly remember the segregated playground with the boys on one side and the girls on the other, and the fantastic Christmas party in the school hall with a magician, party food and presents.  My parets moved us to Clowne on Christmas Eve of 1969 and I cried because I didn't want to leave the school or the wonderful rural playground that had been mine for that one short summer.
I have lived in the USA for the past thirty years but today I visited my parents and decided to take a nostalgic drive around my old hunting ground.  Very sad to see the old school derelict and draped with vines but happy that Sookholme has become somewhat gentrified with our old tithe cottage now a Koi Carp centre!
I would love to hear from anyone who was at the school in 1969 and with whom I might have enjoyed those happy memories. And if anyone has any photos from that period, please post them!
Simon Temprell

Hi,
I hope you can help, I just wish to post a comment in the hope that people may have any photo's of my dad that passed away a number of years back. Ian Lovely (Lugs) worked at Warsop Main for a number of years so I am reaching out to anyone who happened to be a mate of his. As I've got very limited photo's of him I'd be interested to look at any that people may have... I know it's a long shot but it's worth a try.

Many thanks in advance.Regards,
Duncan
dunkidunk(at)hotmail.com

Hello all,

My family lived at rock house in the late sixties until we emigrated to South Africa in 1970. My late father was Alan Cuthbert and my mother jean.
Even though i was very young at the time only five, i have fond memories of helping our gardener George in the large vegetable garden at the time, which i see now is all lawns.
If anyone has, pictures of any kind of rock house i would be grateful if they could share them with me.
Regards
Neil Cuthbert
0834003990(at)mtnloaded.co.za {South Africa}

Hi
Imagine my surprise when I stumbled across this site. My grandparents lived in Warsop Vale and my grandad worked down the pit. He was Jim Poultney. I started down Wellbeck mine in 1957. I went to Burn Lane School. I found the site fascinating especially seeing the photograph of my uncle and aunt outside the village newsagent.

I am Vernon Poultney and left years ago but spent almost all my working life in the Ambulance Service in Lincolnshire.

I would really like to hear from anyone who remembers me.

Vernon
vernon.poultney(at)ntlworld.com

My Parents Alfred Warsop Parsons and Laura Carr were married in Warsop and my grandmother Harriet Carr was a great supporter of the Church.  My Uncle Ernest Carr (Dick) and my Aunty Pop Carr lived there all their lives, my aunts parents owned the Greendale Oak.  But I have very little knowledge of them - as I spent my youth in Plymouth. I still keep in touch with friends in Warsop but if Anyone remembers anything about them, could they let me know.  Angie Harris (Parsons).

Angie Harris

hi i am searching for the brennan family from your area,they are minnie boyd brennan and her son thomas born 1942 in belfast father died in ww2 any info on this family would be great.

many thank's
alex brennan.

Paulette Rasmussen
17 Aug 2007
prasmussen(at)lambeth.gov.uk

 I am looking for information on Daisy Warsop B 1889 and Died 1986  Married and divorced from my husbands Uncle Rudolph Rasmussen, Daisy married Percy Hollister so it is any Hollister history I am interested in.

Carol Roberts
Windsor, New South Wales
14 April 2007
grob5711(at)bigpond.net.au

Thank you for such an interesting website.

I am trying to find information about my ancestors from Warsop.  My grandfather was Walter Frederick Cammack who was killed in France in April, 1918.  His name is on the war memorial near the Hare & Hounds.  My grandmother, Ellen Cammack (nee Harper), came to Australia in 1923 with their four children – Walter, Dorothy, Alfred (my father) and Frances.  I have some information about the Cammack line back to about the late 18^th century, but I am wondering if any of your readers know of any school photos, books or records in existence that show if my grandfather worked in the mine.  On my father’s birth certificate, my grandfather’s occupation is shown as “Colliery Timekeeper”.

Regards

Michael Newton Clifford
2 March 2007

My family has many connections with Warsop and the following notes may revive memories and hopefully be of more general interest. 

My grandfather Frederick Arthur Newton, born at Denaby Main in 1884, was killed in a mining accident at Warsop Main in 1924.  He married Harriet Newton at Whitwell on August 26th 1907.  By 1921 they were living in Warsop Vale, and in 1923 at Wheatsheaf Terrace.  Frederick was a keen footballer and cricketer

He played twice for Chesterfield Town FC (1905 / 6 to 1906 / 7) as goalkeeper and subsequently for Whitwell St Lawrence.  He was a member of the teams that in 1921 / 1922 won the Derbyshire Football Association Competition and in 1923 the Nottinghamshire Cricket League Championship for Warsop Main. 

From 1909 to 1919 he played cricket for Derbyshire.  Best first class score 87 in first innings of 1910 match against Warwickshire at Blackwell.  In the second innings of this match two of his team-mates achieved the best ever 9th wicket stand and this remains a world record in 2006.

His elder brother Leonard Francis, known as Frank (b1882 Denaby Main), played football played for Chesterfield Town FC as centre forward on 98 occasions scoring 23 goals in 1902/3 to 1904/5.  Previously he played for Grassmoor Red Rose and subsequently for Leyton.  Frank died in Warsop in 1959.

My Godparents, Herbert and Elsie Sampson lived for much of their life in Warsop Vale, and my mother Winifred Newton worked at the Coop and Post Office there.

The Newton family has been associated with the area from at least 1550.  A direct ancestor Daniel Newton (1693–1764) farmed 500 acres and for 28 years was Coroner for Nottinghamshire and his life is commemorated in the Church of St Peter and St Paul at Warsop Vale where a memorial brass records ‘Here lies the body of Daniel Newton who was one of His Majestys coroners for this county 28 years. He departed this life May 21st 1764 aged 70 years’ http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/w03/hmonumnt.html

I would be delighted to hear from others interested in this era, and especially if they can provide any further information about the Newton or Hind families in the area.  My family tree can be found on Genes Reunited where I am registered as ‘M’

K Paul Mellor
12.7.2006
paul at townchurch.org.gg

Just a thank you from Paul Mellor for the back page of the June Newsletter with the Warsop sayings and about how we used to speak. Just trying them out brought back many memories of being brought up in Warsop Vale and Warsop. Thank you too for my Aunty June Everett's photographs, Uncle Harry was a keen photographer I remember and it was good to see some of the sites of my childhood.

Cheers now from sunny Guernsey.

Glad Uncle Jack is better.

Thank you all once again for such a wonderful site.

David Crowther

Jean Weaver
Tonbridge
24.2.2006 14:18:54
jweaver at kent-music.com
http://www.kent-music.com

My Father Dennis Frank Sampson came form Warsop Vale

Lesley Sutherland

I HAVE JUST COME ACROSS YOUR WEBSITE AND AND I AM VERY PLEASED TO FIND IT.
IT BRINGS BACK MEMORIES FOR ME AS I STARTED MY FIRT DAY AS A MINER IN 1936 AT WARSOP MAIN.
I LIVED AT CHURCH WARSOP THEN BUT HAVE LIVED AT MY PRESENT ADRESS FOR THE LAST 56 YEARS.

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