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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
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
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
Extracts From Twycross & Leicestershire books
The camera has been set up on a triangle
of land at the junction of the A444 Burton
Road with the road to Sheepy Magna,
which drifts out of shot to the left.
The houses of the late 18th and early
19th centuries are almost picturesque
behind hedges and walls, with a
restrained petrol sign being all that is
needed to alert drivers to the garage’s
presence - petrol companies are now in
the van of unbelievable garishness and
visual offensiveness. Out of sight is the
Curzon Arms Hotel.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
Known for its world-famous zoo, the village has been carefully allowed to grow. On the Green, the memorial is in company with a smaller one to commemorate trees planted for the Coronation in June 1953. Its church of St James the Great contains the oldest stained glass in England, which is originally French - it was made in Paris in around 1145.
An extract from from"Leicestershire & Rutland Living Memories".
It is a quiet day in Twycross. The cafe is not overburdened with custom, and the road to the zoo, about two miles further on,
awaits a surge of traffic, as does the Curzon Arms, at the road junction. The footpath between the low hedge and the
rendered bungalow (right) offers a short meander to the gates of Gopsal Park and Little Twycross.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
In 1955, the agitated ghost of Penn
Assheton Curzon probably hovered
over the site of Gopsal Park, the
splendid house he inherited in 1773,
unforgivably demolished in 1951. The
architect was a local man, John Westley
(1702-69), and the contract was
completed by William and David
Hiorns of Warwick. Almost opposite to
the entrance to Gopsal Park stands the
Curzon Arms, an altered late 18th-
century brick and tile double-pile
house. Atkinson of Aston, Birmingham,
founded in 1855, did not emblazon the
building with their logo. In 1959, the
family sold out to Mitchells & Butler, a
part of the giant Bass empire.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
Its position on the A444 between Nuneaton and Burton-on-Trent is belied in this rural idyll. The cows with their driver, the cottages ranged behind small gardens and picket fences, and the church tower in the background, add up to a satisfactory whole, of which William Morris would have approved.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".