Seagrave Road c1965, Sileby
Seagrave Road c1965, Sileby Ref: S498015
Memories of Seagrave Road c1965, Sileby
Lawson And Wards Shoe Factory
I lived in Barrow upon Soar. I left school in about July 1966 and in September 1966 I turned 15 and started work at Lawson and Wards. My grandma Violet Smith also worked there. My grandma and grandad, Violet and Wilf (Kip) Smith, lived up Wellbrook Avenue. There were also a few people I knew at school who started at Lawsons at the same time as me, some I remember were myself Linda Clarke, Jennifer Forryan, Ruth Richardson, Doreen Sanders, Karen Hadfield, Wendy Bunce and Christine Bulmer. I remember Rose Dickens was the forewoman. My starting wage was 5 2/6d per week. I worked near Irene Bowman and Deirdre Lewis, Freda Clarke, Elsie Webb, Ann Whykes, Bridie Barker. My Grandma Violet gave the work out. Happy days.
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Sileby my Early Life
I was born in Mountsorrel 1938 and soon moved to Sileby 10, Mountsorrel Lane with my mother Mabel Foukes [nee Burton]. My father Thomas was in the army and my mum worked at Newbold Burton and Lawson Ward. I remember convoys of American lorries coming into the village from Sorrel, slowly to make the turn at the Horse & Trumpet, it was the first time I ever got and saw chewing gum. Midway down the lane lived Jimmy Hull, at the botton the Wells family, Norrman, Beryl, Janice. Round the jitty at the side of the church were 2 farms, Tommy Newbold who wore a built up boot, and next door another farm, the name of Smith. On the next corner a girl Mary Trasler then Roger Antill whose mum had a ladies shop on High Street. School in Sileby was 100 yards left hand side on Barrow Road opposite Botts bus garage, then onto big school in King Street opposite the Co-op, corner of Swan Street. A Mr Harrington... Read more
