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Pack Horse Bridge And Surrounding Area in Flood
I was born and bread in Anstey, 21 Rosebery Road, a council house with my 2 brothers Kelvin and Clive. I loved Anstey I still do. I have a lot of childhood memories. I joined the Royal Navy on leaving school, Anstey Martins Secondary Modern, and I am now living in Portsmouth in Hampshire although I have been back several times. I miss the place dearly. I would love to return to live there. One of my brothers still lives in Groby, one lives in Nottingham, I miss them both. My grandad Walter Cyril Littleworth lived in Newtown Linford, Markfield Lane. My father (also Walter Cyril Littleworth) worked for (I think it was) Marwins Engineering, I don't know whether it still exists. Bradgate Park was my backyard, I knew every inch of the place, in fact I went to Boy Scouts at Newtown Linford. I knew Old John, the folly, Cropston Reservoir, it's all coming back to me and it brings tears to my eyes, God, I miss the place.... Read more
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Good Times
I was a child here and a choir boy at St Peter's and went to school at Chanwood 1958-1959.
I Was Here From 1957-1970
I had good and bad memories of the hall. I don't remember Brendan. The house was demolished around 1965/6 and the ground it stood on was sold and a school was built. I remember helping the gardener take geranium cuttings in the conservatory and the orchard, spinney, and lwns and the rose garden. Inside, the hall was impressive: oak pannelled throughout with a grand staircase. I remember suits of armour and deers' heads monted on the walls. So happy to have found this site as I lost the original picture of the hall I had. Does anyone remember me? I was there quite a while.
I Remember it Being Built
The building in your picture was called the 'new shops'. I recall going up there with my dad, Roy Austin, when it was being built. It must have been before 1960 I guess. I was born in 1949. The shops in that block included Boots, Wilkinsons, Forbouys, Greasleys, and the Co-op I believe. Behind the shops was the library, which was the original Co-op where we (John Hogan and his grand-dad 'Tim') used to go in the last days of rationing after the Second World War). Tim fought in the Boer War and me and John used to play with the sword that he brought home with him from the war. Tim wasn't really John's grand-dad. He'd been taken in by the Hogans (John's family). We lived on Glazebrook Road, a hundred yards or so behind the shops in that photo.
We used to buy cheap stale cakes from Greasleys on our way to New Parks Boys School. (Not John - he went to a Catholic school so we got... Read more
New Parks Boys,
I remember well the tennis courts . We were a secondary modern and our tennis courts were very secondary. Holes and gravel with a perimeter fence that had so many holes in it that about 20% of the balls sailed through it only to be punted down the road by a passing car. Whereas the girls' grammer school next to it had new ashphalt, legible lines and a fence strong enough to keep the boys at bay. We had great sports teams and excellent fields to compensate. We shared with fields with the girls but they rarely ventured out.
My Great Grandfather Was Born in Newtown Linford 1879
Daniel Gretton : Born: abt 1854
Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, England
Died: 1913
Resided in Village Street, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, England
Daniel was dis - owned by his family, and his very name expunged from the family records, for either or both sins. Of having no ambition or having married a Jewess.
Eliza Cook
Born: 1854
Leire, Leicestershire, England
Died: 1931
Having blotted the heretofore pristine family escutcheon, he sank lower and lower, and took most of his family with him.
His marriage certificate had his profession as a 'Highway worker', and his death certificate read 'Treefeller'.
His sole claim to immortality was that he felled the largest oak at Bradgate Park.
He was also an alcoholic, which was of no real value in helping to raise nine children.
His two brothers, however had real ambition.
One brewed beer and became Lord Gretton, later of Stapleford Park, and the other made pots of money in building... Read more
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