Kilby, Main Street c.1965
Photo ref: K125013
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From opposite the Dog and Gun Pub, the camera looks along the straight village street with its assortment of restrained houses, hedges and walls. The scene has changed little over the years apart from rather drastic altera- tions to the houses on the right of the photograph. The Church of St Mary Magdalen - by the locally-born architect Henry Goddard (1813-1899) - dates from 1858, and is designed in a granite-faced 13th-century style, really only to be visited by the most ardent enthusiast of Victorian architecture.

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A Selection of Memories from Kilby

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Kilby

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I lived at 9 Main Street, Kilby from about the age of 2 (1964) until 1968-9, when it was converted from 2 small houses to our 4 bed house, and have fond memory's of ... The school across the road, attending for the first time, my sister being may queen attendant to Ruth (?) the may queen. Flooding and with from the bottom of the road and the water reaching our house, coming in through the front door. The farmer ...see more
I was born in 1948 and my Grandma lived at Brook Bridge House in Kilby. I can remember hating living in Industrial Huddersfield but only because I could not wait to get to Kilby for my weeks holiday in the summer. There was a farm in the village, a guy called Neil lived there who was my age, very young! I used to go up there as much as possible and play with the animals, it was just heaven, I remember Mrs Moynihan ...see more
I was born at 7 Fleckney Rd in 1951. My dad lived there with his parents and when he married my mum they lived there until they died; they were Harry and Doris Goddard. I was one of four children and we had a great childhood, my parents were well loved and respected by everyone in the village.
I was born in Kilby in 1943 in the house across from the Dog and Gun (I think it was called the Swan or maybe Black Swan?). When I was about a year or so old my parents moved to Foston (Great Peatling Lodge) and that is where I grew up and went to school in Countesthorpe and then on to Guthlaxton. Now living in the States and get homesick for Leicestershire.