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Cossington memories
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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
Contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
Leicestershire memories
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
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
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
Extracts From Cossington & Leicestershire books
Built about the time that Jane Austen was writing in Hampshire, the simple but attractive farm house on the left
graces a peaceful well-treed rural villagescape. Immediately beyond, modern infill points the way towards the
fully-developed commuter dormitory scenario soon to be fully exploited in a tightly-drawn belt around the city.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
This is an oasis between
industrial Syston and
unlovely Sileby, where,
apart from an increase in
traffic, the scene has
changed little. In the village
are a good variety of
houses, including the early
16th-century rectory, and
Hallside Grove, a
Gothicised house of quality.
On the left is a simple but
attractive farmhouse in a
peaceful well-treed rural
villagescape, built about
the time that Jane Austen
was writing. Immediately
beyond, modern infill
points to a commuter
dormitory scenario.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
An oasis between industrial Syston and unlovely Sileby, the scene has changed little over the years, apart from a
stepping-up in volume of motorised traffic. In the village are a good variety of houses, including the early 16th-
century rectory and Hallside Grove, a Gothicised house of quality set behind the low wall on the left of the photo-
graph. Thank God that 19th- and 20th-century blight has somehow failed to desecrate Cossington.
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".
The link between London Road and Gallowtree Gate, this
short north-south road is visually of the later 19th century. The
Grand Hotel of 1898 by Cecil Ogden (1858-1944) dominates
its southern end, while the rather exuberant Turkey Cafe of
1901 by Arthur Wakerley and the Victoria Coffee House of 1888
by Edward Burgess (fl.1886-1915) add that longed-for touch
of eccentricity and quality to an otherwise undistinguished
townscape. The shops to the left of the photograph retain their
excellent fronts with stall-boards and timber frames, a sight
which has become a rarity in a plate-glass world.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".