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Swimming Lessons
As a pupil at Launde School it was compulsory that we were taught to swim at Oadby Swimming baths, for those of you who know Oadby today it wasn't the newly built baths on Brabazon Road, the baths were in the centre of the village, it looked like an old theatre or cinema on first glance.
The boys changing rooms were on the side of the baths themselves the girls were upstairs and across a balcony.
The bath was covered in a glass roof, this would get covered in thick black mould and as you swam or doggy paddled it would plop off the roof into the baths and onto us little swimmers below.
Whatever the weather we walked to the ...read more here
Contributed by Karen Miller
schooldays
Going to Mr Allens chemist and walking to Sandhurst street School'also going to the public library over the swimming baths
Contributed by valerie freeman
Leicestershire memories
schooldays
Going to Mr Allens chemist and walking to Sandhurst street School'also going to the public library over the swimming baths
A memory of Oadby contributed by valerie freeman
Swimming Lessons
As a pupil at Launde School it was compulsory that we were taught to swim at Oadby Swimming baths, for those of you who know Oadby today it wasn't the newly built baths on Brabazon Road, the baths were in the centre of the village, it looked like an old theatre or cinema on first glance.
The boys changing rooms were on the side of the baths themselves the girls were upstairs and across a balcony.
The bath was covered in a glass roof, this would get covered in thick black mould and as you swam or doggy paddled it would plop off the roof into the baths and onto us little swimmers below.
Whatever the weather we walked to the ...read more here
A memory of Oadby contributed by Karen Miller
Extracts From Oadby & Leicestershire books
The pinnacled and canopied Clock Tower, designed by Joseph
Goddard in 1868, dominates the forefront of the photograph,
while its four stoney local worthies, Simon de Montfort, William
Wyggeston, Alderman Gabriel Newton and Sir Thomas White,
Mayor of Leicester and mine host at the nearby Horse and
Trumpet, gaze down. Beyond Corts Limited can be seen the
dominant dome of the Opera House, demolished in 1960,
where each year the Christmas pantomime was staged and
appreciated with thunderous applause
by generations of children.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
The link between London Road and Gallowtree Gate, this
short north-south road is visually of the later 19th century. The
Grand Hotel of 1898 by Cecil Ogden (1858-1944) dominates
its southern end, while the rather exuberant Turkey Cafe of
1901 by Arthur Wakerley and the Victoria Coffee House of 1888
by Edward Burgess (fl.1886-1915) add that longed-for touch
of eccentricity and quality to an otherwise undistinguished
townscape. The shops to the left of the photograph retain their
excellent fronts with stall-boards and timber frames, a sight
which has become a rarity in a plate-glass world.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
The road extends to the now defunct railway line as 20th-century Countesthorpe balloons in an amoebic sprawl
westwards towards Cosby and Whetstone. In the residual hedgerows and trees lie clues to an 18th-century rural
landscape; the enclosures of the 1760s were hated by John Clare, the Northamptonshire poet, for its deleterious
effect on the lives of ordinary village people, and for its destruction of the open fields.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
A lovely composition of local stone cottages in the lee of the tree-shrouded parish church. They rely on simple
but excellent details, such as the timber-bracketed door hood and an unusual cantilevered canted bay window
prominent to the right - no incongruous plastic windows and doors in 1960. The modern expansion of Groby as
a Leicester suburb is to be glimpsed as the main road swings to the right towards Coalville. In front of the church
is a three-storey tower which forms a part of the basically 15th-century Old Hall.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
Beauchamp was added to the original name of Kibworth through Walter de Beauchamp around 1130. The
red brick village, which has expanded to become interesting rather than beautiful, has excellent examples of
Leicestershire vernacular, from the 17th-century Stuart House in Station Street to the well-proportioned late 19th-
century small houses in the photograph. Kibworth, although large, is a village to see on foot, combining it with
Kibworth Harcourt on the opposite side of the A6.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".