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Ashby De La Zouch, Market Street c.1965
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Prominent on this main road was Rushton's poultry shop on the left. At Christmas especially, rows of pheasants, rabbits and hares hung here, along with other game, poultry and fish. Its wide choice of eggs, cheeses and seasonal accompaniments ensured a brisk trade. Sad to say, after over 140 years, Rushton's has now ceased trading. Likewise, with other shops in this view, businesses have changed.

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A Selection of Memories from Ashby-de-la-Zouch

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Ivanhoe School
Form 1a 1958 to 1962
Ashby de la Zouch, Ivanhoe School c1960
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Dungeons And Dragons
The ruins of Ashby Castle also hold memories. Some are of sitting at school, gazing morosely out of the window while well-intentioned teachers attempted to impart the joys of adding up using letters. At the ripe old age of 10, I felt that algebra was an unreasonable confusion of reading letters and understanding mathematics to make incomprehensible jumble of otherwise meaningful ciphers. Another ...see more
Ashby de la Zouch, Castle from St Helen's Church c1965
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Christmas Is Coming
Still on my travels on Memory Lane I browsed past St Helens. This was always a place of seasonal visits: Christmas, Easter and Harvest Festival. I must admit that Easter visits do not live long in my memory, and Harvest Festival seemed to be an exercise in pyramids of tins of things your mum didn’t need urgently. The Mayans would have been proud of our ironically, heathen ziggurats of Spam, tuna, ...see more
Ashby de la Zouch, St Helen's Church c1955
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Statutory Swingin'
As a young lad in the “swingin 60’s”, the swingin’ rather passed me by … and no regrets there. But the word puts me in mind of the swinging we did do. Just down the lane from Allsopp’s garage – the hallowed source of petrol sold in gallons for shillings and pennies, and Shell’s collectibles such as Roman coins and football cards, was a playground and sports field. This playground was inevitable site ...see more
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