Fleckney
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Fleckney books (13 available)
Market Harborough Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Melton Mowbray Town and City Memories
Paperback
Uppingham Photographic Memories
Hardback
- 7 photos on Fleckney appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Fleckney
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Alma Friston nee Oldfield
I was born in Smeeton on April 23rd 1935. I remember staying with a Mr and Mrs Webb. As you approached Smeeton there were cottages on the left hand side, we stayed in the last one next to a lane. The cows came up this lane everyday for milking, quite often straying on to the garden, it was our job to shoo them away. Down this lane was a chapel which was on the left hand side, I remember singing here. We lived in Leicester during the war, having moved from Smeeton and Kibworth Harcourt.
I remember the grocery shop run by Miss Terry, we bought Jelly Dummies to suck on.
Lots of memories walking in the fields and smelling violets ...read more here
A memory of Smeeton Westerby contributed by Alma Friston
School uniform
When I passed the 11 plus exam I was selected to attend Kibworth Grammar School. The only place that you could get the uniform was the little shop in the photo to the right of the monument in the Square. This meant a trip by train from Wigston to Kibworth. This was quite feasible in the days before Dr Beeching closed all the railway stations. I remember the uniform cost my Mum a fortune and I only attended for one term as my Dad who was in the army was posted to Germany for 3 years. There I went to another school requiring yet another uniform.
A memory of Kibworth contributed by Richard Child
George Lynns grocers
My dad, Maurice Marsden, started work at the age of 14 in Lynns shop in 1937, after serving in the RAF and Fleet Air Arm during the war. He returned to the shop to work and finished up as manager. The shop closed in the 70s.
A memory of Kibworth contributed by graham marsden
Just a Kibbuth Lad
For those who have never been to our village called Kibworth, it is worth noting locals call it "Kibbuth". You live in either "Top Kibbuth"- Kibworth Harcourt or "Bottom Kibbuth"- Kibworth Beauchamp. I myself personally, have lived in both and almost on the boundary of both parishes. For almost the past 40 years (man & boy), I have spent many a happy hour living, playing and working here. Some of my earliest reminiscences are of taking a pair of shoes to be repaired at Old Joe Nourish's cobblers shop on the Leicester Road (just at the end of the Rose & Crown (now Raitha's) car park.
On arrival at his shop, you would press the thumb catch on his ...read more here
A memory of Kibworth Harcourt contributed by Wayne Coleman
Extracts From Fleckney & Leicestershire books
When factories
arrived in
the village in the
19th century,
development along
the Wistow,
Saddington and
Kilby Roads was
inevitable. The red-
brick solidity of the
houses presents an
almost urban face,
apart from the
small front gardens.
Many houses have
date plaques, and
most fall into a
range between 1890
and 1910. An off-
licence offers
Phipps ales and
stout, and at the
end of the row, as if
anticipating further
expansion, there is
a small shop.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
With the parish church, the Hall stands on the deserted medieval village of Wistow, about half a mile to the south
of Newton Harcourt. Although retaining the form of an earlier 17th-century house, the building is essentially a
drastic remodelling of 1814 by Sir Henry Halford, formally Henry Vaughan, a successful medical practitioner
whose patients included members of the royal family. The rendered exterior is interesting rather than beautiful.
In 1960 the Hall was in part converted to flats.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
The cyclist passes the neat Victorian terraces and villas that today have all mains services. The road has been upgraded, and modern housing has appeared wherever space permits. Note the ‘up to date’ fencing on the right.
An extract from from"Leicestershire & Rutland Living Memories".
New housing estates have transformed Fleckney to the sizeable community it is today. Building now stretches far beyond the trees. Originally it had one of the first framework knitting communities of the 19th century, and the local firm, Wolsey Knitwear, had its beginnings in the village.
An extract from from"Leicestershire & Rutland Living Memories".
In place before the Conquest, Fleckney continues to develop
and extend with a population of 71 in 1381 increasing by 1950
to nearly 1500 - and the increase goes on. This photograph
shows a village opening out onto the low hedges and standard
trees of the 1769 enclosure fields, which in their turn overlie
the prominent ridge and furrow of an earlier age. From the
camera’s viewpoint little has changed. The shop with its attrac-
tive front remains in post office use, and the other buildings
have new plastic windows; but stopping the long view, without
being intrusive, is a new estate of houses, slowly, slowly changing
the character of Leicestershire’s semi-rural scene.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".