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The Tillson's Home
A copy of the church photo was sent to me after I visited Witherley, on the trail of my Tillson ancestors. I was told that the middle house was where the Tillson's lived in the 1900s & before.
My g/grandmother Ann Tillson was born in Witherley in 1856, I have her birth cert. but wondered if she was christened in St. Peters. Her father William Tillson according to the 1861 census was also born there in approx 1832.
As I live in Wales is there anyone who could look at the Parish Records for me.
William was a Domestic Servant, Gardener & by 1871 a Coachman. Did he work at the Hall??
A memory of Witherley contributed by Shirley Harrison
My Grandad Jim
My name is kerry & my favourite memory of coalville when i was younger is my Grandad, his name was Jim Watts. he was a coalminer for quite a few years & he was also Mayor of coalville. i remember going to the dog track with my dad, Alan & having to wait around for my grandad to come out. if i remember right after there he would go to the halfway house & 'just wet his lips' before he went home. i would have been about 9 or 10 years old at the time, i'm 38 now. i never thought i would hear myself say ' i can remember when all this was fields', i definately can hear ...read more here
A memory of Coalville contributed by kerry tucker
Family Recollections of Kirby Muxloe - 1913 to 1969.
My memories of Kirby Muxloe date back to 1949, when I was a bridesmaid at my father’s cousin Anne’s wedding at St Bartholomew’s Church. However it is the castle that I remember most, since we had to drive past it to visit her parents, my Great Aunt Nell and Great Uncle Stan in Desford Lane. In 1969 I photographed the Castle when I took my own sons to visit Anne’s sister, Eva, who lived on at the same house after their parents’ deaths.
My father was born in 1913 and he and his parents lived next door to Stan and Nell for the first twenty or so years of his life. He had vivid recollections of the castle. He wrote in ...read more here
A memory of Kirby Muxloe contributed by Jane Sealy
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 Market Bosworth & Warwickshire books
Since the 13th century there has been a market here, and the buildings in the town centre reflect a gentle change rather than a dramatic fluctuation of fortune at any one time. Single-storey dormered cottages sit comfortably with the later elegance of the flat-fronted Georgian house further along the street.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
At the time of this photograph, Hoskins, a family brewery in Beaumanor Road, Belgrave, in Leicester, owned this, their one public house. Tom Hoskins, a Worcestershire man, founded the concern at the turn of the century and produced the selection that won him the highest awards for a variety of beers. The adjoining ancient cottages have gone, and have been replaced with housing that remains in keeping with the town.
An extract from from"Leicestershire & Rutland Living Memories".
Time stands still on a summer’s afternoon, with houses going back four hundred years placed all around the square. The market is still held here, and buyers and sellers come in from miles around.
An extract from from"Leicestershire & Rutland Living Memories".
Market Bosworth was granted the privilege of a Wednesday market in 1285, and the small town was one of 29 in the country to combine this with an annual fair. In a primarily subsistence-orientated world, the market of the 13th century proved an efficient way for producers to sell their surplus products. More often than not the privilege of establishing a market had to be bought, and the lord needed to be sure of a return on his investment. The Market Square, which here takes a triangular form, is surrounded by modest, attractive, mainly 18th-century houses, apart from the Grammar School, which, to some extent, raises the scale. The presence of a traditional but modern cross completes the picture. Today the square has regrettably taken on a more regimented appearance, with a regularised car park behind concrete bollards, but it is, in its essentials, little changed. Situated away from major routes, the town has derived its fame from the Battle of 1485, when Henry Tudor, later Henry VII, defeated Richard III on Ambion Hill to its south.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
The basic fabric of the church can be no later than the end of the Early English period, around 1300.
The elegant five-bay north and south arcades are witness to this date. One of two 14th-century
tomb recesses with ball-flower decoration can be seen between columns to the left. The excellent
west tower was built in 1649. The chancel was rebuilt in 1858 by the architects Millican & Smith,
who also carried out unremarkable works at Arnesby, Bagworth and Markfield, among others.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".