Donington, High Street c.1955
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Further east, 18th-century Mansfield House on the right with its two canted bay windows and pedimented doorcase is the best building, while the one with three dormers beyond is now a county branch library. Behind the Hovis sign, a fire station has since been built, but the rendered building in the middle distance, The Black Swan, is still a pub today.
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A Selection of Memories from Donington
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Donington
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Pete Waters was head teacher of Donington Cowley Endowed School and I was a pretty new head teacher in Boston. We agreed to take a party of children from both our schools to PGL Llyn Filly, just outside of Hay-on-Wye for an adventure week.The adventure week included kayak canoeing, sailing, horse riding, abseiling, archery, rifle shooting, assault course and climbing Mount ...see more
This is a very significant picture to me although taken a good many years after we left High Street for Mill Lane. My sister, Hilda and I were both born in one of the houses just beyond the white building, in our time that was the bakery, run by a Mr Wilson and family. (Hilda was born in 1918 and I in 1921.) The first house was Mr Arthur Burton's, then ours, Mr George White, after the archway was Mr Gideon ...see more
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