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Castle Donington, High Street c1955 (ref. C430001) | Bondgate crosses Mount Pleasant to become the restrained High Street on the south side of the village rising up to Hill Top. The photographer looks back down the hill past 19th-century houses towards the village centre. |  Add your own Memory
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Castle Donington, the Parish Church c1955 (ref. C430014) | Seen here from the south, the parish church with its unusual dedication is an amalgam of parts up to the 15th century, when the porch was added on the south side. Apart from the east window by Kemp and Co and a few minor monuments, there is little here to interest the visitor. | Add your own Memory
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Castle Donington, Key House c1955 (ref. C430003) | Dating from the turn of the 17th century, the Key House is probably the best of Castle Donington's vernacular buildings. Timber-framed, it has a two-story porch decorated with lozenges, a most unusual feature for its date. | Add your own Memory
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Castle Donington, Market Street c1955 (ref. C430005) | The photograph is dominated by a brick and stone building typical of its turn-of-the-century date, but in this southern sector of the town earlier houses are to be found, including a stone-faced building in Apiary Gate of c1670. | Add your own Memory
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Castle Donington, King's Mill c1955 (ref. C430007) | This terrace of almost picturesque millworkers' cottages now sits quietly, adjacent to the isolated and decaying great water wheels which once powered the mills. Originally for corn milling, the mills in their later life were given over to a variety of industrial uses. | Add your own Memory
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Castle Donington, King's Mill c1955 (ref. C430008) | This is a leisurely view typical of many to be seen on the rivers Trent and Soar. The need to protect the crossing of this river provided the initial raison d'etre for the castle and the village. | Add your own Memory
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Castle Donington, Bondgate c1955 (ref. C430004) | Although quiet, even in 1955, Bondgate is on the line of the turnpike road between Long Easton and Ashby-de-la-Zouch. We can still appreciate in these photographs the quality of houses and shops, before the destructive work of the modern window salesman spread like a rash over the country. | Add your own Memory
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Kegworth, view from Church Tower c1965 (ref. K139034) | A view which highlights the growth of industrial Kegworth. In 1965 uncomfortably large utilitarian factory/stores nestle close to the church, among the irregular tiled roofs of an earlier era. | Add your own Memory
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Kegworth, the Lock c1965 (ref. K139008) | To the east of the village, we see a timeless view of an industry wiped out by the growth of the national railway system. Once utilised to deliver raw materials and to take away the finished products to Derby or to Leicester, the waterway is basically reduced to the status of a leisure facility. | Add your own Memory
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Asfordby, Church Lane c1960 (ref. A211025) | Apart from All Saints, little of architectural quality has survived, except for a few rather handsome houses, including the Rectory of 1808 and the Old Hall. This view of the church, and on to the river behind, retains a tranquil air uncommon to much of the village. | Add your own Memory
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Asfordby, the Church by the Wreak c1960 (ref. A211003) | The 15th-century spire soars above the River Wreake on its south side, with the now rather mundane Village Street to its north. Internally, there is little to detain the visitor, apart from the nave roof with its stone heads and wooden angels. | Add your own Memory
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Asfordby, The Old Hall c1960 (ref. A211008) | Formerly the manor house of about 1620, this fine red brick building is now itself deteriorating. Sashed windows, within stone surrounds under triple gables, grace a quietly elegant facade. Internally Jacobean woodwork survives, as does a wooden spiral back stair. Facing Main Street is the early 19th-century coach-house and stable to The Old Hall. | Add your own Memory
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Asfordby, the Cross c1960 (ref. A211001) | The late 19th-century industrial face of the village percolates through the photograph, providing a dramatic contrast to Church Lane, which runs almost picturesquely away to the right of the cross. | Add your own Memory
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Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Old Cottages, Hill Street c1955 (ref. A212014) | Here we see pretty brick and stone cottages of the 18th century and earlier, which went to make up the Ashby referred to by Camden as 'villa amoenissima'; they pre-date the dramatic launch of the town as a health-restoring spa. | Add your own Memory
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Ashby-De-La-Zouch, view from St Helen's Church c1965 (ref. A212029) | Situated in the shadow of the grand church of St Helen's, the castle, now in the care of English Heritage, originated as a Norman manor house; it ultimately become the property of the Breton La Zouch family in the mid 12th century. Probably the castle's most famous, or infamous, owner was William Lord Hastings, who was beheaded by King Richard III in 1483. | Add your own Memory
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Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Royal Hotel c1965 (ref. A212033) | The Royal Hotel is an impressive brick and stone building, designed by the virtually unknown architect Robert Chaplin in 1826; he employed a large porch of paired Greek Doric columns to impress those arriving in search of the invigorating spa waters, which were said to be good for rheumatism. | Add your own Memory
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Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Market Street c1955 (ref. A212012) | The slightly overlarge Italianate Town Hall, along with the French Renaissance bank building of 1891, dominate an otherwise well-ordered street scene. The buildings appear to be of later Georgian date, but the jettied timber-framed house to the right speaks of hidden treasures to be found behind and within. | Add your own Memory
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Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Market Street c1965 (ref. A212017) | This pleasant but rather undistinguished wide street was the scene of a Saturday market since it was granted in 1219. The photograph generally shows later Georgian flat-fronted houses with shops thrust into their ground floors. | Add your own Memory
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Ashby-De-La-Zouch, view from St Helen's Church c1965 (ref. A212030) | This view looks from St Helen's Church, west across the rooftops, to Our Lady of Lourdes RC Church and Holy Trinity Church in Kilwardby Street. The countrywide low point of early 1960s building design has clearly arrived at Ashby, with the larger building towards the bottom right of the photograph standing out in an otherwise well-ordered townscape. | Add your own Memory
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Barrow Upon Soar, High Street c1965 (ref. B514029) | The rather barren appearance of the High Street exemplified in this photograph sets the tenor of this large mainly red-brick village. It is difficult not to greet the intrusive 'modern' post office to the right of the photograph with a certain sadness. | Add your own Memory
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