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Kegworth books (13 available)
Market Harborough Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Melton Mowbray Town and City Memories
Paperback
Uppingham Photographic Memories
Hardback
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Long Whatton Primary School
My name is Sandra Faure nee Cartlidge.
I have wonderful memories of my childhood in Long Whatton, especially those when I was at the Primary School.
Anyone remember Mrs Sharpe and Mrs Varnam?
Mrs Sharpe was a lovely person and I feel that we all got a good start in life having her as our teacher. She taught us so many things apart from the normal lessons. I remember how happy she was when I became the first ever Queens Guide in Long Whatton. She even gave me five pounds, which in those days, was a LOT of money!
I remember how we used to be able to play in the fields which were opposite my house (9, ...read more here
A memory of Long Whatton contributed by SANDRA faure
Evacuees to Normanton in 1941
My elder brother, Alan Crook, and I were evacuated from Sheffield during the blitz of, I think, 1941. We stayed, as far as I can recall, in a large house, I believe the Manse, attached to the Church. (St. James ?). I was about 6 at the time so my memories are a little hazy ! We were looked after by the Vicar, and his housekeeper who was very kind to us. The vicar had a grown-up daughter who used to lend me her doll's pram. I remember a beautiful garden with an archway leading to the church grounds. It was a very traumatic time for my brother and I but I would ...read more here
A memory of Normanton On Soar contributed by Mavis Heeley
snow on the university site
I remember when the snow was really heavy, I was about 6 years old and I lived with my grandparent and mother on New Ashby Road, just over the road from the Loughborough University. My uncles and Aunts took me over to the university with a sledge, we had a wonderful time sledging and making a giant sized snow man...
A memory of Loughborough contributed by yvonne sutton
In loving memory of my dad JIMMY aka james chambers.!!
I want my dad to be remembered by all you that knew him he was born in coalville and spent his days growing up in witwick.The memories i have of my dad are all good he was always smiling and doing benny hill impresions.Iremember he always had a smile for everyone and everybody who he met loved him he was a bit of a jack the lad,everyone knew him and the family and the family knew everyone.My grandad James Robert Chambers worked in the coal mine in coalville i also think my uncle frank did also. My dad was head game keeper for ages and i remember living in switherland hall in Keepers cottage.We moved around alot but my ...read more here
A memory of Whitwick contributed by julie chambers
Extracts From Kegworth & Derbyshire books
The camera looks east down the High
Street, which opens onto Church
Gate and Derby Road. Kegworth’s
origins lay in its medieval weekly
market and annual fair. The arrival of
framework knitters heralded a dour
expansion of red brick housing and
hosiery factories, but some nice
examples of vernacular architecture
are to be found in the village. In the
photograph, a butcher’s shop front
(left) with its rather flimsy canopy has
been built into a rather good 17th-
century cottage. Further on towards
the parish church are a selection of
early 19th-century houses, matched
on the opposite side of the road by a
later three-storey brick terrace.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
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.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
Ashby Road becomes the High Street at the crossroads (centre); to the left is Packington Hill,
and to the right Broadhill Road. Beyond the crossroads is the old village, with its three-
storey, flat-fronted late 18th-century houses, while towards the camera the quality of the
secondary layer of houses, including those of the 1930s on the right, deteriorates.
A proliferation of television aerials never enhances the skyline.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
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.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
The now busy A6, along with the rapid growth of the nearby East Midlands Airport, compounds the traffic problems that Kegworth has seen since the M1 junction was put in a mile away. Here, though, in more tranquil days, St Andrew’s, one of the largest of the county’s churches, overlooks the village centre.
An extract from from"Leicestershire & Rutland Living Memories".