Pygall Avenue

Herbert Pygall was born in Yarmouth during 1882. After his marriage to Hannah, he moved to Chesterfield to work on the railway as a platelayer. He then transferred to Gotham with responsibility for the maintenance of the branch mineral line that serviced the village gypsum works and mines.

He was extremely busy in village affairs. All his leisure time was taken up with various activities. He was an organiser of the carnival band, trainer and secretary to the Gotham St Lawrence Football Club and he started both a boys’ club and a boxing club.

He was very much involved with the Labour Party and was a parish councillor and school governor. During the last Second World War he was a warden of the ARP [Air Raid Precautions]. He died in 1955 at the age of 73.