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Uppingham| Tilton On The Hill| Great Easton| Oakham| Seaton| Caldecott| Billesdon| Langham| Rockingham
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Great Easton
I lived the first 22 years of my life in Great Easton amd it is a place that will remain with me forever. My family are recorded as being in the parish for 400 years and my late father was the last one to remain, until his passing in 2001, in a very much changed village to the one I remember as a boy and most certainly how he would have remembered it having lived there all his life. We all went to school at the nearby Bringhurst School and were taught as Infants by Miss Love and as Juniors by the headmistress Mrs Cartwright. We played football in the streets without fear of being run over, we cycled far and wide without fear of being molested or abducted and the surrounding fields were our playground. Most of the people who lived in the village had ancestry that had ties to village for years and by and large everyone knew everyone. We earned pocket money by going 'spud' picking at half term, we... Read more
Queens Visit
I remember the Queen's visit to Rutland in this year. I remember all the children from the local schools forming the shape of a horseshoe in a field/park? and the Queen being driven around the horseshoe waving to us all.
Castle Hit by Storm
Not 100% sure if it was 1966 or 67, but I do remember that the castle roof was covered with a tarp for quite some time after lightening hit the castle during a storm.
Seaton Station
As a youngster living in Great Easton along the Welland valley, my school holidays in the early 1960s were largely spent at Seaton Junction station in Rutland. My friend Colin and I would cycle there with a bottle of orange squash and a bag of sandwiches and spend our days watching the trains on the Rugby to Peterborough line and also the Kettering to Nottingham trains over the viaduct nearby. We were allowed to open and close the hand operated level crossing gates and pull off the locking levers on the ground frame. I wonder what Health & Safety would make of 11- and 12-year-olds doing that these days? A special treat was to ride on the footplate of the tank loco that was used on the Stamford push and pull, great days that are never forgotton. We would also play cricket with the station master on the platform between trains. 6/6/1966 is a day I will never forget, when the line closed in its entirety.
Seaton in The 1950s And 60s
I lived in Seaton from the very early 1950s to the very early 1970s. My happy memories are: going down to the River Welland in Harringworth and fishing, going down to Seaton railway station and watching the trains go through. Seaton station in the 1950s and 1960s was a very important station, with trains running from Peterborough to Rugby, and single line tracks running to Uppingham and Stamford. We used cycle to Foxton Locks and the surrounding area. I remember the plane crash on Spanhoe airfield. I saw the aircraft come down and explode, that must have been 1965-ish. My first experience with alcohol was at the George and Dragon pub that was run by Algie Baines and his wife, then Dick Twigg took it over and modernised it and did meals etc. I remember going to school in Uppingham on the school bus. The house we then lived in in Drurys Lane had no running water or mains sewage, but we got by OK without them. I was christened... Read more
My Great Great Grandfather Lived Here.
My grandfather William Keightley moved to Sheffield, Yorkshire in the 1890s.
He was born in one of these cottages, as was my great grandfather Albert Keightley. On the 1871 Census he is listed at no. 44 Cottage and on the 1881 Census he is listed at no. 31 cottage with the "White Hart" Inn as No. 32.
I would love to hear from any family members still living at Caldecott.
Sharmans of East Langton
Hi, I am trying to track down where in EAST LANGTON that my ancester Thomas Coleman Sharman lived - or any relatives for that matter. I am the family historian in Adelaide, South Australia.
