Calverton Calling

Calverton Calling is an oral history project collecting the voices and memories of people connected to Calverton, Nottinghamshire. Each story is recorded, transcribed, and shared here as a living archive of the community — its working life, family histories, and the everyday moments that shaped a place. Calverton Calling is made possible thanks to National Lottery players and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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Michael the ex bus driver

Michael, the ex-Calverton bus driver. We moved to the area in 1959 to Oxton and for various reasons we moved to Calverton in 1965. My mother, Morag, was the manageress up at the Pit canteen for many many years. I became a bus driver for Barton in 1993, moving o…

Calverton fair

I was born in 1983 and grew up in Calverton. One of the things I remember about being a child in Calverton is the area where The Hollins and Clover Fields are now. There used to be a big field all full of puppies, and it was really beautiful to sort of bike pas…

Calverton School's

I was born in Calverton in 1966 in a house on Collyer Road. We moved out of the village shortly afterwards, but my grandparents, Dr. Reese and his wife, she was the teacher at Sir John Sherbrooke school, and my grandad was the headmaster at the boys' school on,…

Feeling welcome moving into the village

I'd like to say I've never been made to feel so welcome in a village. When I moved to Calverton three years ago, I was told, "You don't want to be moving to Calverton Peter, it's a very racist place." And I've never suffered any racism at all, and people have b…

Pit house

My name is Heather Howison. When my mum and dad came into Calverton, they rented a bungalow from Mr and Mrs Hunt before the house that they went into, which was Park Road, which was a pit house. So they were the first people to go into the pit house on Park Roa…

Filming a movie in Calverton

My name is Marion Throup. It's March 26, 2026. I want to talk about the filming of A Room for Romeo Brass. The filming took place in Calverton between 5th of September and 17th of October in 1998. My friend's house on Lee Road was used as Knock Knock's house, w…

Care for the Calverton Community

My name is Noah. I moved to Calverton when I was a baby and I used to live in Stockport. We're living in Calverton because we have loads of flags that show our countries and also we have loads of transports that can get us to lovely enjoyable places that make y…

A poem of Calverton

What a great project. My name's Sandra, I've lived here since 2002, and I've wrote a little poem about it.We moved to bottom estate in 2002, a quieter place that is true. The kids changed schools and one started new. At Homestead Ministry we had a great view. C…

Village get together

Hello, my name is Sophie and I am really loved the Village get together when you like, when the lights would turn on at Christmas time. I will be really fun with all these fun and games and I've lived in Calverton for about 3 to 5 years.

Calverton brass band

And I'd just like to say that we've had in this village one of the best brass bands in the country. In fact, at one time we were recorded as the 10th brass band, best in the country. It's we're in the Guinness Book of Records because we did 14 competitions in o…