Fleckney, High Street And Post Office c.1960
Photo ref:
F134013
More about this scene
In place before the Conquest, Fleckney continues to develop and extend with a population of 71 in 1381 increasing by 1950 to nearly 1500 - and the increase goes on. This photograph shows a village opening out onto the low hedges and standard trees of the 1769 enclosure fields, which in their turn overlie the prominent ridge and furrow of an earlier age. From the camera's viewpoint little has changed. The shop with its attrac- tive front remains in post office use, and the other buildings have new plastic windows; but stopping the long view, without being intrusive, is a new estate of houses, slowly, slowly changing the character of Leicestershire's semi-rural scene.
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