Great Easton
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Great Easton books (13 available)
Market Harborough Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Melton Mowbray Town and City Memories
Paperback
Uppingham Photographic Memories
Hardback
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Leicestershire memories
My great great grandfather lived here.
My grandfather William Keightley moved to Sheffield, Yorkshire in the 1890s.
He was born in one of these cottages, as was my great grandfather Albert Keightley. On the 1871 Census he is listed at no. 44 Cottage and on the 1881 Census he is listed at no. 31 cottage with the "White Hart" Inn as No. 32.
I would love to hear from any family members still living at Caldecott.
A memory of Caldecott contributed by Linda Archer
My life in South Luffenham
Born in November 1942 I was christened, confirmed and married in St Mary's. My father cleaned, stoked the boiler, wound the clock, and cut the grass. I in turn sang in the choir, served at the altar and rang the bells and stoked the boiler when dad was at work on night shift, a spooky experience in the dead of winter for a young lad. I married in 1966 and moved away, visiting until mum and dad moved to Oakham.
A memory of South Luffenham contributed by leonard harries
Castle hit by storm
Not 100% sure if it was 1966 or 67, but I do remember that the castle roof was covered with a tarp for quite some time after lightening hit the castle during a storm.
A memory of Oakham contributed by Janet Saw
Queens Visit
I remember the Queen's visit to Rutland in this year. I remember all the children from the local schools forming the shape of a horseshoe in a field/park? and the Queen being driven around the horseshoe waving to us all.
A memory of Oakham contributed by Janet Saw
Extracts From Great Easton & Leicestershire books
Great Easton lies in the south-east corner
of the county, to the south of Eye Brook
Reservoir, and to the north of industrial
Corby, on the very edge of the Welland
Valley. In an area of architectural gems
(Rockingham Castle, Lyddington Bede
House and Stoke Dry parish church), the
village has a number of good ironstone
houses of the 16th, 17th and 18th
centuries arranged around two greens.
The photograph, looking north towards
Stockerston, focuses on the war memorial
cross which is unhappily ‘protected’ by
standard hairgrip railings.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
On the east side of the village, overlooking the Welland Valley, the church for the most part dates from the 13th and
14th centuries, including the tower and its broach spire. Ewan Christian, a rather dreary architect, rebuilt the spire in
exact facsimile during his restoration work of 1864. A panelled Jacobean pulpit survives, and so does a somewhat
eroded 14th-century monument.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
A pleasant, traffic-free scene with the horse and cart unattended, patiently waiting for the master’s return from Illsley the
saddlers. The post office is on the left then Corney Manufacturing Jeweller. Amongst other businesses is the chemist beyond
the Crown Hotel and opposite, the family firm of Matkin’s printers, who from 1881 to 1941 published an almanac listing
people and occupations in town and county. Flore’s House protrudes in the distance - one of the oldest houses in Oakham
dating from the 14th century.
An extract from from"Uppingham Photographic Memories".
This classic view has All
Saints’ spire behind the
shops with the famous
Butter Cross (at least 300
years old) in the middle.
Hart and Smith next to each
other seem to sell just about
everything anyone could
want - postcards, wooden
hoops, newspapers, parasols, toys
and groceries. Glaziers, the
well-known family draper,
milliner, outfitter and
clothier is opposite the
Butter Cross selling trilby
hats at 3s 11d, boys suits
from 7s 11d and a galaxy of
other goods.
An extract from from"Uppingham Photographic Memories".
Until 1880 this area was the
butchers’ shambles, then
replaced by the pump (in the
shelter, foreground). There
are milk churns on the cart
outside F W Hart ‘Family
Grocer, Tea and Provision
Merchant’. Note the errand
boy’s bike propped up
against the gas light. There is
a motorbike and sidecar up
in the corner near the Butter
Cross. Could it be the one
bought for the police station
in 1926? A boarding house of
Oakham School is behind the
pump surrounded by railings.
An extract from from"Uppingham Photographic Memories".