Nottinghamshire Local History Council Collection (1960, G.R.Bostock)
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EXTRACTS CONCERNING PLOUGH MONDAY, FROM THE ESSAY COMPETITION "MEMORIES OF A
VILLAGER"
In 196O, the Nottinghamshore Local History Council ran an essay competition
through its periodical Nottinghamshire Countryside Magazine, with the intention
of obtaining valuable historical data fron the memories of old people.
Twentyseven of the essays received mentioned Plough Monday celebratiouns
to some degree or other. The following extracts come from these essays.
A summary of the content of the essays was published by Cossen in 1962*,
and the scripts themsleves are now deposited in the Nottingham Record Office,
High Pavement, Nottingham, under the reference (DD 121/1.)
The Winning entries were published in the Nottinghamshire Countryside in
1960 in the Autumn and winter numbers.**
* COSSEN Arthur
The villagers remember.
in:- Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1962, p.77-79.
** CRITCHLEY, Mrs. C.
Memories of a villager.
in:- Nottinghamshire Countryside, Vol.21, No.3, Autumn 1960, p.8-11.
Essay concerns Hucknall, but contains no referenee to a play.
SCOTT, Oswald P,
Memories of a villager : Cropwell Butler.
in:- Nottinghamshire Countryside, Vol.21, No.4, Winter 1960/61 ,
p,20-23.
q.v. Croprwell Butler extract.
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