A Poignant story at this time of the year remembering the 139th Sherwood Foresters amongst many other regiments that fought in Ypres. FROM THE BOOK BY ANTHONY RICHARDS. A CHRISTMAS TRUCE   A  book I recommend highly you read. This … Read More

Lying within the North Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Coalfield, Mosborough and other local towns and villages share a long history of coal and ironstone mining dating back many centuries. The earliest documentary reference to coal mining in Mosborough dates from the … Read More

Lydia Jane Plant was born at 25 Cadman Street in 1905 to Elizabeth and James Plant with her sisters Janet Edith Plant (17) and Nellie Plant (16), plus her brothers George Albert Plant (11), James Ivan Plant (9), and Ernest … Read More

Granted operating license by NCB in 1947 and had three directors, Colin and Albert Pemberton and Brian Hutchinson.   Please note the additional information below was supplied by Mr Lindsay Pemberton (DoB 5th June 1949) youngest child of Albert Pemberton and Margret Pemberton … Read More

Saturday, November 23, 1861 As it is our mournful duty to record in our columns, the death of a gentleman, long most useful and ever most highly esteemed in Sheffield, who has just terminated his mortal career, in the 90th … Read More

The History of Air Vice-Marshal E Plumtree (83716) Eric Plumtree Born 30 March 1919 Died 11 June 1990 CB  1 Jan 1974, OBE 1 Jan 1946,  DFC  12 Nov 1940,  MiD – 14 Jun 1945. (RAFVR) Sgt xx xxx xxxx, … Read More