medieval stonework evident. There were ideas of moving the war memorial to that site and the Cross moved perhaps to the country park, but these were dismissed as too costly. There is a further memorial plaque, carved in oak, displayed to the right of the north door in All Saints' and a commemorative stained glass window to the east of the south aisle. To the north at Cotgrave Place near the golf course is a memorial to a Vickers Wellington bomber that crashed on 8 February 1941. The aircraft from No. 12 Squadron, recently dispersed from RAF Station Binbrook to nearby RAF Station Tollerton, was on a gunnery training flight when the pilot met control problems. The aircraft hit an oak tree just short of the still extant runway, next to where the golf club house stands. A plaque nearby recalls seven of the crew who were killed. Notable people In birth order: William Upton (1804–1867), county cricketer for Nottinghamshire in 1827–28, was born and died in Cotgrave. Elinor Mordaunt (1872–1942), writer and traveller, was born in Cotgrave. Ernest Hayes (1898–1938), born in Gripps Cottage, Cotgrave, joined the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1916 and received the Military Medal three times for bravery on the Western Front (France) in 1918. Frank Robinson (1932 – 4 July 2004) of Cotgrave travelled to Nottingham daily to play a child's five-note glockenspiel round Lister Gate. On his death he received hundreds of tributes from listeners. Nathan Robertson (born 1977), Badminton player, was World Badminton Champion (2006 IBF World Championships – mixed doubles), Olympic Silver Medallist (2004), and Commonwealth Games 2010 mixed doubles silver medallist. He grew up in Cotgrave and attended the village school. Cotgrave Colliery The town lies on the Grantham Canal, opened in 1797. Some exploration for coal had been attempted for a hundred years but none was discovered in the area until about 1950. Cotgrave Colliery was established in the early 1960s with large numbers of miners and their families being moved from other mining areas of England, especially the North East, to live on a large purpose-built housing estate. Initially, in 1962, around 500 experienced mining workers and their families, accepted the National Coal Board incentive of tied new houses complete with furnishings to move from the area of the recently closed Radford Mine on the north-west side of nearby Nottingham. This mine was near the site of