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This site contains information about Giltbrook, Eastwood,
Greasley, Newthorpe, and the surrounding areas, in Nottinghamshire, UK.
It includes local history, local photographs, and a link to a map of the area,
which is on the 'Giltbrook' page, (link at the bottom of this page).
The title, 'Giltbrook - A Suburb of Ikea', refers to the size
of the Ikea development, now called the Giltbrook Retail Park, which is situated on the outskirts of Giltbrook, near to the A610 island. Giltbrook Retail Park contains, or will contain when completed by Christmas 2008, the following stores, Ikea, Next, Decathlon, Comet, Laura Ashley, Carpet Right, CSL, Bhs - British Home Stores, Mamas & Papas, SCS, Pets at Home, and Barker & Stonehous, plus more to be announced, along with the food outlets of Starbucks, Subway, and Frankie & Benny's.
Giltbrook Farm Estate (Smithurst Road)
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The site also contains personal information about me, and my interests. I have tried to make the site both easy to navigate, and quick to load. Most of the images on this site are copyright to me, if you require an image for another site, please ask.
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A school reunion is planned for pupils that left the school in 1964. The reunion is to be held at Eastwood Town Social Club, (Football Club), on Friday September 19th. at 7:30pm. Tickets will be £5.00, and this will include a buffet, with any profits going to charity. Tickets will be available soon from Johnson's (Ian) Newsagents at Hilltop. The organisers are Rita Campbell and Georgina Clarke. I have set up an email address for this reunion, please let me know if you will be attending, or if you have any other questions, and I will forward the emails to Rita or Georgina. The email address is on the main reunion page on the following link -o- Gavin Gillespie.
Further details about the reunion, including school photographs, and a list of most of the pupils from that year, are avaiable on the following link - Walker Street School - 1964 Leavers Reunion
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Further information about Giltbrook, (including its history, and more photographs), can be found by clicking on the 'Giltbrook' button below, or use the buttons to visit other pages related to this site, and also to visit my D.H. Lawrence site.
Thank you for visiting this website. If you need to contact me, or if anyone has any old photographs of Giltbrook, or the surrounding areas, and would like them included here, please contact me using the Guestbook button directly below, then click on the 'Post' button on the Guestbook site. There is also an option to leave private messages in the Guestbook if required.
The saving of the Gilthill School building (click here)
To find out what the Greasley and District Civic Society thinks of the proposed developments, please click on the following link:- Greasley and District Civic Society
Local artiste/singer, Melissa Demetriou, (photograph above) who lived in Giltbrook, has a website on the following link. Here you can check out where and when Melissa is appearing, and also download some of her songs:-
Melissa - The Singer
If you want to find out what happened to local groups from
the 60's and 70's, groups like 'Sons and Lovers', (Happiness is Love),
'Whichwhat', (In the Year 2525) and 'Paper Lace', click on the following link.
You can download some of the above songs from the site by using the 'Download' link on the Sons and Lovers home page.
Sons
and Lovers website
Copyright 2003 Gavin Gillespie