Loughborough, Cattle Market And Devonshire Square 1949

Photo ref: L197021

Photo ref: L197021

Photo of Loughborough, Cattle Market And Devonshire Square 1949

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TODAY THE RUSHES seems just a busy stretch of road linking the town centre to the main road to Derby. However, it was here that Loughborough first experienced the horrifying face of modern war. By 1916, Loughburians had already seen many of the town's young men march away to the mud and death of the trenches of the First World War. On the night of 31 January, Loughborough found itself on the front line of that war. There were no anti-air raid precautions. Large, German hydrogen-filled airships were making bombing raids on England but Loughborough was thought to be out of range. New acetylene lights were shining out on Leicester Road. Lights were also blazing at the Theatre Royal in Market Street and at the Empire cinema in the Cattle Market.

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A Selection of Memories from Loughborough

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 Loughborough

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Football

My father would take me to watch the Brush football team play at home matches, one of my relatives played for them; his name was Stan Hodges. The ground was behind the Queens Park, I remember a narrow foot to the entrance where it opened out, near the turnstile to get into the ground. Years later it was closed and a leisure centre was put in its place.

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Added 18 January 2014

Simpkin & James

This was a wonderful delicatessen (although it would have described itself as "general provisions" or something like that, It had huge cheeses and whole sides of smoked pork and giant hams in the window. It had a unique smell - a mixture of spices, coffee, smoked meat and cheese. NO modern deli comes anywhere near it - apart possibly from Volpetti in Testaccio, Rome.

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Swimming Baths

In my final year at Mountfields we were led up to the swimming baths in a long crocodile to be taught how to swim, if we couldn't already. I'd just about learnt to swim the previous summer holiday in Wales, but it felt much easier (& a lot warmer) in the swimming pool. The changing areas were quite primitive. Some of us used to go swimming here on Wednesday afternoon when I was at Loughborough Grammar School (when we worked Saturday mornings, but not Wednesday afternoons).