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A Real Community
I was born in Harborough Magna in 1943 at Rose Cottage, Main Street. I lived there with my mother and grandparents during the 1940s and early 1950s. When I was 4 years old I went to the village school which had a headmistress called Mrs Rook and a teacher called Mrs Budd, however Mrs Rook soon left and was replaced by Miss Hunt who was in charge throughout the rest of my time at the school. The school was a Church of England school and obviously very closely connected to the chuch. All of my early life was dominated by school and church activities, in particular I remember with affection our annual Sunday School trip to Wicksteed Park with Miss Violet Gamble who ran the Sunday School. In those days it was the equivalent of a trip to Disneyland. I also remember the Sunday school parties ,the games of which were run by a Mr Mather in the village hall. Although my parents moved to Brinklow... Read more
CHILDHOOD AT STRETTON UNDER FOSSE
Hi to all who may read this and maybe remember my family. My father was born in Stretton in 1920 and lived next door to a Granny Coombs in the centre of the village with his mother Niome, father Jack, sisters Doris, Gladis, Elsie, Pat, and Brenda, who sadly died at the young age of 18. The four brothers were Fred, Jack, Ernie (my father) and Jim. Sadly only my father remains at the age of 90. The only school for them to attend was at Monks Kirby, they had to walk there and back every day. My father can remember the headmaster being a Mr Holden, but what sticks in his mind the most is his mother giving them a tin filled with hot fire embers to put in their pockets to help keep them warm on their way to school. They also only had their breakfast and had to go all day without any food till they got home. The people he remembers living in the houses around the yard... Read more
Wedding
Not exactly a memory but my mum and dad were married here in 1955. My dad went to the little school that was/is just to the left of this picture ! My grandparents, two uncles and an aunt are buried there now, just to the left!
Foxleys Jewellers
This is my grandad's and his family's old shop. They don't own it any longer but the shop and name still remain the same and there was a chain of them and think there still is.
Lived PAILTON 1957-1963
I used to live 61, Coventry Road, where my Dad died in that house in 1961. Mum used to work at AWA Bitterswell, and my friend was Christine Bakewell who lived at 34, Coventry Road. Her Dad had an engineering business in Market Harborough. I went to school at Monks Kirby, then Newbold Grange School, Rugby. I didn't like village life as when I became older, there was never anything to do ! The Co-op used to be there but closed, the Doctor was Dr. Killey. There was Lewis' coaches, also Lewis' farm where Mum used to get the milk from. I moved back to Coventry where I was born in 1963.
Post-War Brownsover
From the late 1940's to 1969 I remember this area as part housing, part prefabricated homes because of the war. Many old features were still around like barges carrying coal on the Oxford canal, the old disused mill, the huge BTH complex with air raid shelters still intact, and the Avon Water Works off Mill Road.
There was only one way in and out of the estate at that time - through the tunnel under the main railway station. Mill Road led into Boughton Road which terminated at the old posted bridge over the Oxford Canal. On the other side of the canal it was totally green fields all the way from Clifton-upon-Dunsmore to Newbold running parallel to the canal. In the summer most local children would cross the 'humpty dumpty fields' as they were known, and spend hours sun-bathing and swimming in 'the butts', a widened corner of the stream running between Clifton and Brownsover. The only interuption to this solitude would be an occassional train passing along the... Read more
St Peters Church Gates
Hi
hope someone can help, there is great debate going on in dunchurch at the moment. There is no record of when the church gates were put up and we need to find out because English Heritage are trying to stop them from being removed, but the church wants to replace them for security reasons. The oldest member of the congregation (92 years) cant remeber as she was away for most of the war. I have looked at some pictures from the 1950's and they are in place at the time but cant find anything older.
Hope someone can help us resolve this
Thanks
Louise
