Bradmore, Nottinghamshire

Bradmore Methodist Church and Community Hall was extensively modernised in 2003 and is a popular centre for village activities, being also available for private functions.

There are many activities at the Community Hall including monthly Bradmore lunches, 3Cs Saturday coffee morning, Women's Institute, Yoga classes and Craft group.

The spire was damaged during an earth tremor in 1957 and when this was repaired the opportunity was taken to refurbish the tower room and use it again for Communion services once a month.

The last one was a post mill at the top of Far Street (grid reference SK581311), built before 1832,[4] derelict in the 1870s and burnt down on 5 November 1880.

Apart from the farmers, there were 2 butchers, a tailor, a baker, a miller, two saddlers, a wheelwright, a carrier, a blacksmith, a maltster and a joiner, and, of course, the alehouse keepers.

This document, which is now many hundreds of pages long, will be deposited in the Nottingham Record Office for the benefit of future historians and those investigating their ancestors.

The most poignant is the case of William Barnes or Burn who, on 7 October 1765, was sentenced to be transported for 7 years to His Majesty’s colonies or plantations in America for obtaining the sum of 6d from John Savage of Bradmore by falsely pretending that he, William Barnes, was lame of his right arm.

The only other misdemeanour by a Bradmore resident that we can find is this extract from Volume 2 of the records of the Borough of Nottingham 1399–1485.

“The Jurors from the east side say, upon their oath, that Ellen Scott of Bradmore, in the County of Nottingham, housewife, on the twelfth day of May, in the twenty-second year of the reign of Edward the Fourth, and upon other days and occasions, commonly and usually, at Nottingham aforesaid, did regrate eggs, butter and cheese brought to the market of the town aforesaid, and did sell them again in the same market, to the dearness and detriment of our said Lord the King’s folk and against his peace”.

Bradmore Methodist Chapel
Bradmore Church North Aspect
Converted barn in Bradmore