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Queniborough| Gaddesby| Syston| Cossington| Sileby| Frisby On The Wreake| Thurmaston| Rothley| Mountsorrel| Asfordby| Barrow Upon Soar| Saxelby| Grimston| Burton-On-The-Wolds| Quorn| Cropston| Melton Mowbray| Ab Kettleby| Leicester| New Parks| Tilton On The Hill
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Happy Days!
Our second son, Sam, was born very shortly after we moved to Thrussington from Kent in 1972. We'll never forget the kindness and support shown to us by people in the village where we had only been for three weeks. The following five years were equally enjoyable and we were very sorry to leave in 1977. We made many friends while we lived in Leicestershire, most from the village, which, though small, had much to offer its residents, especially the river, the church, the school and its two pubs. Looking back, it seems like a golden age for us. We have at last arrived in another village that is as good in Kent, but we are still nostalgic for lovely Thrussington.
The Cottage on The Green
The cottage on the left of this photo was where my great grandfather and his ten children lived at the turn of the 20th century. He was a butcher. There was a slaughterhouse at the back of the property. They lived there from about 1895 to 1908.
Barn Croft.
The house in the middle is where I lived from 1972. The address is 62 Main Street and the house was called Barn Croft. The house on the right was a farm and the house that the middle house was built on was part of the farmyard. When the farm closed, one of the daughters had this built c1930. She lived there until she died c1970. Her name was Olive Clarke and was one of three girls I believe. The house had a barn at the bottom of the garden, converted in 1990 after my father sold the property in 1985. I have some belongings of Olive's like an autograph book and a booklet on cruises dated 1909.
Bob Day's Shop
On the other side of the road from this photo (Barncroft) was a shop known as Bob Day's.
A tiny shop with a thatch roof and still standing but unused for many years.
As a young school boy I would buy penny sweets with pocket money from Bobs on a Saturday morning with other friends.
Lawson And Wards Shoe Factory
I lived in Barrow upon Soar. I left school in about July 1966 and in September 1966 I turned 15 and started work at Lawson and Wards. My grandma Violet Smith also worked there. My grandma and grandad, Violet and Wilf (Kip) Smith, lived up Wellbrook Avenue. There were also a few people I knew at school who started at Lawsons at the same time as me, some I remember were myself Linda Clarke, Jennifer Forryan, Ruth Richardson, Doreen Sanders, Karen Hadfield, Wendy Bunce and Christine Bulmer. I remember Rose Dickens was the forewoman. My starting wage was 5 2/6d per week. I worked near Irene Bowman and Deirdre Lewis, Freda Clarke, Elsie Webb, Ann Whykes, Bridie Barker. My Grandma Violet gave the work out. Happy days.
Sileby my Early Life
I was born in Mountsorrel 1938 and soon moved to Sileby 10, Mountsorrel Lane with my mother Mabel Foukes [nee Burton]. My father Thomas was in the army and my mum worked at Newbold Burton and Lawson Ward. I remember convoys of American lorries coming into the village from Sorrel, slowly to make the turn at the Horse & Trumpet, it was the first time I ever got and saw chewing gum. Midway down the lane lived Jimmy Hull, at the botton the Wells family, Norrman, Beryl, Janice. Round the jitty at the side of the church were 2 farms, Tommy Newbold who wore a built up boot, and next door another farm, the name of Smith. On the next corner a girl Mary Trasler then Roger Antill whose mum had a ladies shop on High Street. School in Sileby was 100 yards left hand side on Barrow Road opposite Botts bus garage, then onto big school in King Street opposite the Co-op, corner of Swan Street. A Mr Harrington... Read more
Growing up in Rothley
Rothley is and always will be my home no matter where in the world i live, It is 36 Years since i resided on Woodgate my father is George Hunt, he owned the Barbers shop at no 19 untill his retirement almost 25 years ago.
When i lived on Woodgate we had Betty Smith the chemist on one side of us and Dick Elkington and his wife on the other running the sweet shop, which later i believe became the Candy Store. and next to that was George Hutchins the Newsagent.
I especially used to love the time leading up to Christmas, when all the shop windows on Woodgate were decorated with Fairy lights and false snow, coming home from work in the dark and walking up Woodgate seeing all the beautiful christmas lights in the shop windows made me feel a sense of belonging, something i have never truly experienced since.
I remember going up tp my grandparents house in Town Green St, on my bicycle decked... Read more
