We’ve got images marking our area’s proud coal mining heritage, the Stags facing a trip to Arsenal back in the 1928/29 season and how Mansfield Market Place looked back in the 1930’s.
The gallery has a cracking pic of a budding postal worker as a schoolboy in the 1930s, an view from the sky of Carr Bank Park and a visit to the town by Queen Elizabeth in 1950.
There’s also a very personal concert by Alvin Stardust for two lucky Mansfield locals as well as ground improvement work at Mansfield Town’s ground back in March 1963.
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1. 1st August 1926: Miners from the colliery at Crown Farm near Mansfield, Nottingham on their way home from work. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
Miners from the colliery at Crown Farm near Mansfield on their way home from work on 1st August 1926. Photo: Getty Images
2. Crown Farm miners
Miners from the colliery at Crown Farm near Mansfield on their way home from work on 1st August 1926. Photo: Getty Images
3. Mansfield Town - 1923
Mansfield Town won the Notts FA Senior Cup in season 1922-23 with a 2-1 victory over Newark Athletic at Sutton Town's ground. They are pictured here with the trophy. Photo: Heritage Images/Getty Images
4. Arsenal v Mansfield Town
Action as Stags face Arsenal at Highbury on 26th January 1929. Photo: Getty Images