Thurmaston
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Thurmaston books (14 available)
Market Harborough Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Melton Mowbray Town and City Memories
Paperback
Uppingham Photographic Memories
Hardback
- 5 photos on Thurmaston appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Thurmaston
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Leicestershire memories
the cottage on The Green
The cottage on the left of this photo was where my great grandfather and his ten children lived at the turn of the 20th century. He was a butcher. There was a slaughterhouse at the back of the property. They lived there from about 1895 to 1908.
A memory of Syston contributed by Marianne Head
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
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
De Montfort Rocked
Good to see DeMontfort Hall as it used to be. It was a great venue to see bands there. Once the small blues clubs had ran their course bands needed larger venues to ply their trade, De Montfort was one of the first, I saw Rory Gallagher, John Hiseman's Collesseum,Yes, Sutherland Brothers/Quiver and never to be forgotten Free (when they reformed briefly) the last band I ever saw before the modernisation of the hall was Uriah Heep with a rather drunk David Byron fronting the band. Other major bands to visit DeMontfort were Genesis, Supertramp and the most under rated bunch of musicians to ever grace these shores The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (God rest his soul)
Today Demontfort is an ...read more here
A memory of Leicester contributed by Mick Austin
Extracts From Thurmaston & Leicestershire books
St Michael’s stands on the east side of Melton
Road in the centre of the village. Only the
tower remains from the early 14th-century; the
remainder was rebuilt using some original
materials by Henry Stevens of Derby in 1848,
who also restored a number of churches on the
west side of the county. The two rather grand
foreground tombstones are perhaps more eye-
catching than the church in this photograph.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
The parish church of
St Michael sits behind
the buildings on the
left of the now
peaceful main street.
Canal Street, Wharf
Street, and Mill Lane
on the right run back
to the river. Left
alone, the buildings in
Melton Road could
have reverted to a
village atmosphere,
but the Council in its
usual insensitive
manner authorised
the demolition of the
cottages on the left,
and the erection of an
amazingly ugly
knitwear factory. As
usual, the double-
glazing salesmen have
paid the street a visit!
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
In this photograph the bypass is deserted compared with today, and there are no traffic lights. The road alleviated a bottle-neck in the nearby village, allowing traffic an easier route to Nottingham, Newark, Melton and the east coast.
An extract from from"Leicestershire & Rutland Living Memories".
A Roman milestone was excavated at
Thurmaston, but the name is Anglo-
Scandinavian. The village sits astride the
Roman Fosse Way, but it is attractive no longer:
for the last hundred years it has been in all but
name a part of North Leicester. The relatively
narrow main street carried heavy traffic to
Nottingham, the north, and the east coast. By
the late 1950s it had become overwhelmed,
and Newark Road, known as the bypass, was constructed on the east side of the village.
When this photograph was taken, the road had been open for two years, an arid, treeless
swathe, but manna from heaven in an urgent world.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages 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".