Lutterworth, Church Street c.1955
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Photo of Lutterworth, Church Street c.1955

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Church Street has about it an almost faded Dickensian air, in tune with a town whose better days appear to be past, which is a great pity. The photograph shows congenial, modest, mostly early 19th-century buildings, with a series of shop fronts pre-dating the ugliness of late 20th-century aluminium framing and internally illuminated fascia signs.

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A Selection of Memories from Lutterworth

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My uncle Keith Henry Dyson was born in Lutterworth 1935 at spencer road to George and Gertrude Dyson. He has recently died intestate and I am trying to find his two long lost children Shirley and Paula dyson. Their mothers name was Pauline Ann hook and grandfather a local farm worker Henry hook. If anyone has any information on the hook family from that time or more recently I would welcome the help
Moving from a house made of earth and straw in Walcote to new Prefab in Dunley Way and later moving to Denbigh Place. Growing Potatoes and Marrows in the garden. Father (Norman) worked at Power Jets on secret jet engines. Tremendous noise daily during tests. Father guarded Bitteswell Aerodrome at nights with the Home Guard. American army vehicles passing through (Any gum chum?) Dozens of gliders pulled ...see more
My gggrandparents lived in Lutterworth in the late !800's and early 1900's. They were John and Annie Herbert. John worked at the Hind Hotel as a blacksmith and lived in Marsden Terrace. They had 5 children, one of whom was my grandma Lilian Herbert. Their youngest son John Charles Herbert was killed in 1916 in the battle of the Somme and has no known grave. He is commemorated on the war memorial at Theipval, France and ...see more
My grandparents (Mousleys) lived in 38 Church Street and that was the house where my mother was brought up during the Second World War and onwards. I remember staying there as a small boy: no inside toilet, an old hand water pump to the rear (not working), dark bricked cellar and a view from the attic window to the church. The walled garden to the rear was adjacent to the old Sherrier school, so we were ...see more