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Wright Barker (1864 – 1941)
Miss Sylvia Lake Armstrong
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Geoffrey Palmer (Rabbitt)
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Canon Henry Telford Hayman
Reverend James Flanagan
Reverend Paulson
Vicars of St. Mary’s Church
Families
Alexander Family of Edwinstowe Hall
Brightman Lowe Fallowell
Bowering
Christopher Thomson 1799 -1871 Life Story
Dr. George Oakley Aldrich
Elizabeth Sarah Villa Real Gooch
Lady Sibell Argles née Pierrepont
Lady Eveline Maude
Lowe Family
Parnell & Birkland House
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Richard Neil & John Birdsall – Boating Tragedy at Thoresby Lake
Parnell & Birkland House
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Philip Brett
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Edwinstowe air crash assistance request – 26th February 1944
Edwinstowe Civil Defence Team
Evacuees – Letter of thanks from Sheffield to Edwinstowe 1939 – Go To World War 2 link
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Memories of D-Day
Land Army Memories
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Prisoners of War (POW) in Sherwood Forest
Royal Army Ordnance (R.A.O.C.)
Sherwood Forest during & after World War II. The Men of Edwinstowe who returned.
Territorial Army
The Fallen World War II
The Royal Observer Corps
The Second World War in Burma
Thoresby Colliery World War II
War Time School Days & My Early Days at King Edwin’s School
Welbeck College – War Office School
When Royalty stopped off at Edwinstowe
Women’s Voluntary Service
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On Her Majesty’s Service
Young Historian
Christopher Thomson Social Reformer and Artist.
Cowboys and Pit Ponies
King Edwin Primary School previously called Edwinstowe Council School
One of the Secrets of Sherwood Forest – Vera’s Story.
Schools Dig for Victory
Village Trail
Why Did the King Visit Ollerton 1904?
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