Barrow Upon Soar
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Map of Leicestershire
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Barrow Upon Soar books (14 available)
Market Harborough Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Melton Mowbray Town and City Memories
Paperback
Uppingham Photographic Memories
Hardback
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Working on the boats.
The wooden boats in the picture belong to the riverside restaurant, out of shot to the right. As a teenager, in 1974, it was my job on a Sunday afternoon to hire these out. We did have a few people fall out of the boats, but no one complained. A warm brew and some towels was all it took to make things right.
Contributed by Paul Howard
Leicestershire memories
Working on the boats.
The wooden boats in the picture belong to the riverside restaurant, out of shot to the right. As a teenager, in 1974, it was my job on a Sunday afternoon to hire these out. We did have a few people fall out of the boats, but no one complained. A warm brew and some towels was all it took to make things right.
A memory of Barrow Upon Soar contributed by Paul Howard
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 ...read more here
A memory of Rothley contributed by Sandie Lee
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 ...read more here
A memory of Cossington contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
Extracts From Barrow Upon Soar & Leicestershire books
For many years the river at
Barrow has possessed a
watery magnetism which
has drawn people from the
city to its banks on warm
summer days, either to
enjoy a picnic, or to venture
onto the water in a variety
of craft. It is regrettable that
in our increasingly litigious
21st century, where a
stubbed toe or a sprained
ankle can cost boat hire
firms dear in compensation,
simple boating pleasures
may be slowly but surely
drawing to a close.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
The cows are lying down, a sure sign of rain, the old saying goes, but whether this is true or false they add a picturesque
finishing touch to a watery scene. Situated about 8 miles north of Leicester, by Domesday ‘Barhou’ was settled. Today, it is
the river and the lime works which are the village’s most valuable assets. The lime produced here is considered to be of the
finest quality.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
Externally, the Mountsorrel granite facing of the church gives it a hard, almost unwelcoming appearance. Most of the building work was carried out between 1863 and 1870, to the designs of Stevens and Robinson, a Derbyshire firm of architects. Internally, there is a mid 17th-century monument to Theophilus Cave, and one from the mid 18th century to Martha Utber.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
This traffic island at the south end of the High Street, with its random stone walling, double yellow lines, and Festival of
Britain-style sign, somehow epitomises a rather unlovely village. Even the church of Holy Trinity, masked here by the
foreground tree, was built in forbidding Mountsorrel granite c1865 by Derbyshire architects, Stevens & Robinson. Internally,
there is a mid 17th-century monument to Theophilus Cave in the chancel, and one from the mid l8th century to Martha
Utber in the south transept.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
The camera looks
north-south along the
High Street as it
crosses the Leicester to
Nottingham railway,
and at a not
unattractive group of
houses and shops
ranging in date from
the 18th century to
modern. The modern
intrusions, such as
Kinsell’s electrical shop
and the adjacent post
office (left), do little to
enhance the group.
Surviving K6 telephone
kiosks (left) are now of
historic interest, being
designed by Sir Giles
Gilbert Scott in 1935,
based on the tomb of
architect Sir John
Soane at St Giles-in-
the-Fields (1616).
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".