Kilby
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Kilby books (14 available)
Market Harborough Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Melton Mowbray Town and City Memories
Paperback
Uppingham Photographic Memories
Hardback
- 5 photos on Kilby appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Kilby
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Kilby memories
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Leicestershire memories
Bell Street
I remember going to Bell Street around 1967/8 to see Michael Aspel open "Key Markets" which was a supermarket of sorts, and would be on the left-hand-side of this picture (I think either next door to the Co-op, or may have occupied the same space for a while until it closed down.
Also Foryan's (not sure of the spelling) bicycle and toy shop on the other side of the road (now the cancer charity shop). The old chap who owned it, sold bikes (Raleighs) but knew absolutely nothing about them, so a popular school-boy prank, which was a great source of amusement to me and my friends, was to go into the shop and ask for something like a pair of ...read more here
A memory of Wigston contributed by David Harriman
happy days
The corner shop was Tyler's, a sweet and grocers shop. They sold 1d iced lollies made from a juice drink similar to Ribena. You were allowed out to play all day except Sundays, and we would very often go around in a little gang. We especially enjoyed going over the fields (the hills and hollows) behind Church Nook, to two little ponds to fish for tadpoles and further along to Rally Bridge, which was a footbridge across the railway line. Memories come back of running through the steam of the trains across the bridge for a dare.
A memory of Wigston contributed by First Name Last Name
Basset Street School
I remember this school so well, my first born went to this school in 1983 and so did my daughter, it's a shame they pulled part of it down. I remember walking the children over to what is now the infant school to use their swimming pool, later when they pulled some of the old school down the children were moved to the infant school in South Wigston, on the Countesthorpe Road, where all three of my children went, they then moved on to South Wigston High School where they had a real good head master, Mr Bothamy (sorry about the spelling).
A memory of South Wigston contributed by ruth carroll
South Wigston, Gloucester Crescent
I moved to South Wigston in 1978 as a newly wed, I lived on Marstown Avenue which then was a two way road, and very busy, and I remember using these shops all the time. I used to do my shopping in what is now called Jacksons and is a Sainsburys shop. I notice looking at the picture of the 1960s that not a lot has changed but the end shop on the left of the picture is now a fish and chip shop, all that keeps changing is the type of shop. I no longer live in South Wigston but do get to visit it still, and even now in 2008 things are very much the same.
A memory of South Wigston contributed by ruth carroll
Extracts From Kilby & Leicestershire books
Kilby is a Scandinavian form of the Old English ‘cilda-tun’; the first part means ‘child’, or more
probably ‘young nobleman’. This small village is set in an enclosure landscape of straight hawthorn
hedges, between Fleckney and Countesthorpe, to the south of the city. The unprepossessing church
of St Mary Magdalen by Henry Goddard (1813-99 - see St Andrew’s, Countesthorpe) sits on the
south side of the main street. This view looks at what amounts to 19th-century small-scale
development along the Fleckney Road; the whole adds up to a very cordial rural scene, common
over southern Leicestershire.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
Wistow Hall sits comfortably by its artificial lake, even though Wistow Road, from Kilby to Kibworth Harcourt, runs
directly past the front door. The church of St Wistan, which appears to have been remodelled in the mid 18th
century, is of considerable interest for its rare, complete interior fittings of that date, enhanced by a number of
good but unattributed monuments.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
Flanked by two extensions, the oldest part of this inn dates from the 17th century, and is an important building in today’s village. It still has a rural atmosphere.
An extract from from"Leicestershire & Rutland Living Memories".
From opposite the Dog and Gun Pub, the camera looks along the straight village street with its assortment of
restrained houses, hedges and walls. The scene has changed little over the years apart from rather drastic altera-
tions to the houses on the right of the photograph. The Church of St Mary Magdalen - by the locally-born architect
Henry Goddard (1813-1899) - dates from 1858, and is designed in a granite-faced 13th-century style, really only to
be visited by the most ardent enthusiast of Victorian architecture.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
The pinnacled and canopied Clock Tower, designed by Joseph
Goddard in 1868, dominates the forefront of the photograph,
while its four stoney local worthies, Simon de Montfort, William
Wyggeston, Alderman Gabriel Newton and Sir Thomas White,
Mayor of Leicester and mine host at the nearby Horse and
Trumpet, gaze down. Beyond Corts Limited can be seen the
dominant dome of the Opera House, demolished in 1960,
where each year the Christmas pantomime was staged and
appreciated with thunderous applause
by generations of children.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".