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Market Harborough Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Melton Mowbray Town and City Memories
Paperback
Uppingham Photographic Memories
Hardback
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My Great grandfather was born in Newtown Linford 1879
Daniel Gretton : Born: abt 1854
Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, England
Died: 1913
Resided in Village Street, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, England
Daniel was dis - owned by his family, and his very name expunged from the family records, for either or both sins. Of having no ambition or having married a Jewess.
Eliza Cook
Born: 1854
Leire, Leicestershire, England
Died: 1931
Having blotted the heretofore pristine family escutcheon, he sank lower and lower, and took most of his family with him.
His marriage certificate had his profession as a 'Highway worker', and his death certificate read 'Treefeller'.
His sole claim to immortality was that he felled the largest oak at ...read more here
A memory of Newtown Linford contributed by leigh gretton
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
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
Childhood summer holidays at Taylor's Rock, Woodhouse Eaves
I spent many a summer holiday as a child (between 1976 and around 1983) at Taylor's Rock on Beacon Road, Woodhouse Eaves. I still consider it to be the only place I have ever truly felt at home and I miss it dreadfully, even now! I have incredibly fond memories of Broombriggs Cottage Farm, next to Taylor's Rock, time spent playing in the Beacon - there was the most wonderful tree there - great for climbing or just sitting on - I often wonder if it's still there..... My sister and I used to love driving into Woodhouse Eaves with our Great Aunt to collect fresh eggs or newspapers. The postman stopped to join us for breakfast at Taylor's Rock ...read more here
A memory of Woodhouse Eaves contributed by Lorna Beech
Extracts From Anstey & Leicestershire books
Straddling Rothley Brook, the medieval bridge is a feature of this large village that has grown considerably since the last war. Folklore tells of the machine-wrecking by a local, Ned Ludd, in the early 19th century; he was imitated by others in the area as a protest against the mechanisation of the knitting industry - hence the term ‘Luddite’.
An extract from from"Leicestershire & Rutland Living Memories".
The 16th-century stone bridge steps quietly by way of its five
arches across the reedy Rothley Brook; the original roadway
into the village is now reduced to a footpath. Isolated, as the
road now crosses the water to its north, the bridge seems to
take about itself an air of romance, probably associated with the
image of luxury-laden animals in fact, their loads rarely amount-
ed to anything more than day-to-day necessities.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very
reedy Rotherby Brook. The view looks south-east towards the newly aligned A46 trunk road, with all its speed and noise.
This was the original roadway into the village, now reduced in stature to a footpath, as the road now crosses the water to its
north. This is a rather romantic monument to the past.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
Although the scene is basically little changed, apart from the loss of the National Provincial Bank on the right (it
was replaced by an archetypal building of the 1960s or early 1970s, larger but of lesser merit), the Nook sparkles
rather more 35 years later than it did when the photograph was taken.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
This view shows the bank before its additional floor and new façade were added. Today’s traffic has brought lights around a much-reduced traffic island, which has lost the trees and shrubs. Shops and services have been developed for the growing community that is now well-established as one of Leicester’s commuter villages.
An extract from from"Leicestershire & Rutland Living Memories".