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Leek books (7 available)
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Leek memories
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evacuation
At the beginning of the war I was evacuated to Leek. I was only there until the Christmas but I remember going to school in a building called the Nicholson Institute and I stayed with some lovely people called Wagstaffe near Balls End Park. They had a shop where they sold and repaired watches. I remember that we used to go for walks on Sunday afternoons to Rudyard Lake.
Audrey Frost
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st lukes and milner girls
I was born in Leek and went to St lukes school and then onto Milner girls in Springfield road. Did anyone else out there go to either of these schools.
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Staffordshire memories
evacuation
At the beginning of the war I was evacuated to Leek. I was only there until the Christmas but I remember going to school in a building called the Nicholson Institute and I stayed with some lovely people called Wagstaffe near Balls End Park. They had a shop where they sold and repaired watches. I remember that we used to go for walks on Sunday afternoons to Rudyard Lake.
Audrey Frost
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st lukes and milner girls
I was born in Leek and went to St lukes school and then onto Milner girls in Springfield road. Did anyone else out there go to either of these schools.
A memory of Leek contributed by First name Last name
Extracts From Leek & Staffordshire books
The stall holders and the ice cream man must be wondering where the customers are. They must either all be at work, or down at Rudyard Lake for the day. By the mid-1950s, Leek had become a major centre for the knitwear industry: three-quarters of all the scarves worn in the UK were said to have been manufactured in the town.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".
The stall holders and the ice cream man must be wondering where the
customers are.They must either all be at work, or down at Rudyard Lake
for the day. By the mid-1950s, Leek had become a major centre for the
knitwear industry: three-quarters of all the scarves worn in the UK were
said to have been manufactured in the town.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Pocket Album".
There are two interesting churches in Leek. All Saints Church dates from the 1880s and is decorated in the Arts and Crafts style, with glass by Morris & Co. The parish church, dedicated to St Edward the Confessor, is mainly 14th century, though the chancel was rebuilt during the 19th century.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".
Leek was settled before the Roman occupation, the name deriving from ‘Llech’, a stone. Standing as it does at the southern end of some of the most spectacular scenery in the midlands, the area has been popular with tourists for nearly two hundred years. Tourism was given a boost in the 1840s when the North Staffordshire Railway opened its line through the Churnet Valley.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".
Swynnerton lies about three miles south of Trentham. It was Roger de
Swinnerton, Lord of the Manor, who obtained a charter from Edward I to hold
a market here every Wednesday and an annual fair on the feast day of Our
Lady’s assumption.The manor later passed into the hands of the Fitzherbert
family, and the church was once under the patronage of Oxford University.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Pocket Album".