The year of 2020 will be remembered by the whole world as the year of COVID-19. The virus has affected the lives of everyone on Earth.

At a mundane level, I found managing the Cropwell Bishop Village Plan website more challenging than ever: there was simply little positive news to publish.

News items were becoming mostly health warnings, shop and business closures, bus terminations, sporting cancellations and social-event cancellations. The calendar was empty.

Looking for something to distract people from the sad reality of daily life (and to occupy me), I hit upon the idea of ‘Street Stories’ of Cropwell Bishop. It would be an opportunity to collate information gathered from printed documents, online searches, and residents of Cropwell Bishop and then present the findings in a readable and interesting format.

Getting the help and support of anyone with memories, photographs and knowledge of the past is essential. Many people have provided useful snippets of information, but I am most indebted to Cropwell Bishop residents, Anne Terzza and Pam Barlow who supplied facts, figures and photos of the past.

Tony Jarrow

Cropwell Bishop Parish Council would like to thank Tony Jarrow for the years of hard work in putting together the Street Stories of Cropwell Bishop.

You can read Street Srories of Cropwell Bishop here.