Hello Jack, Thank you very much for taking the time to reply to my posting about Pleasley Hill and for your interesting comments therein. No, I wasn't born or bred in Pleasley although my maternal grandmother (ne HUMPHREY) was born there and my paternal grandfather (PEART) lived and ran a grocers shop in Mansfield Woodhouse where my father was born. I also have quite a few other relatives that lived in and around Pleasley Hill including, as I think I said in my posting, my great uncle Spencer Humphrey DUTTON, who ran the post office for many years from his house on Chesterfield Road and this was in Meden Square. His father Thomas DUTTON was the post master there before him. Spencer died in 1946 and I remember visiting him and my great aunt there as a very young child in the early to mid 1940s ( I was born in 1940). My great aunt Zillah DUTTON continued to live in the house until she died in 1964 although the post office was taken over by someone else and moved a few doors down the road to a much more modern building where I presume it still is today. I continued occasionally to visit my aunt there in the 1950s with my parents and emigrated to Australia in 1970 and have been here ever since. My wife and I revisited Pleasley Hill in 2001 after I retired during a holiday back in the UK. The house was still standing then although it looked unoccupied. Many other ancestors (relatives) of mine lived in the area basically HUMPHREYs and DUTTONs and there offshoots. Some of these were coal miners, some were FWKs and some worked in th Cotton Mill. One of the early DUTTONs emigrated to the USA in the 1840s and eventually became a judge! What I was trying to find out in my posting (perhaps not put as well as it should have been) was simply the precise location of my maternal grandparents grocers shop (Henry HUMPHREY). It is only really a matter of personal interest because they moved out of Pleasley Hill long before I was born and I was just trying to visualise where the shop was in PH so that I could reconcile this with my memory of Pleasley Hill. It is of no great importance other than that. Since posting to NOTTSGEN, I have discovered, with help, that the transcription of the 1891 Census in 'Findmypast" referring to the shop in Cock Lane was a misinterpreted by the transcriber. I am no longer therefore looking for Cock Lane. The shop was definitely located in Market Square however as I have found a series of newspaper advertisements for the sale of his shop in 1892 which clearly indicate its location in Market Square, Pleasley Hill. I now have a street map of Pleasley Hill dated 1921 but can find no reference to a Market Square. I also have a poor photo of my great grandparents standing in the doorway of their shop. The photo was clearly taken from the other side of the road as the building itself is quite clearly shown. I have used Google Streetview to try and identify the place but can find no building that resembles the one in question and I have concluded that it must have been demolished a long time ago. It has crossed my mind that Market Square might have been Meden Square and I was very familiar with that location in my early childhood as I indicated above but I have no recollection of the building in question. By the way, if you are familiar with Meden Square you will possibly remember the Millpond on the far side of the Square. My great aunt used to walk me across the road from her house when I was 4 or 5 years old to feed the ducks on the Millpond - I remember it clearly. There were still ducks there when I revisited the area in 2001. I am sadly coming to the conclusion that I may never know where my great grandfather's shop was located. If you know of anyone whose memory of the area dates back as far as mine or further you might show them the photo of the shop which I have attached to this email. I will also post this email to NOTTSGEN in case anyone is interested my rambling reminiscences of the area.... but without the photo of course. I realize that much the information I have relayed above was in my early posting although not all of it and I apologise for the repetition. Martyn Queensland, Australia