Market Harborough, High Street 1922
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Photo of Market Harborough, High Street 1922

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The High Street, earlier called the Great Street, is lined either side with Georgian buildings which sit at the head of earlier burgage plots, much the same as at Uxbridge, Middlesex or St Ives, Huntingdonshire. The wide street provided the place where townsfolk and country visitors could barter or sell goods on a day-to-day basis, and it widens considerably either side of the church - this is more apparent from the air.

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A Selection of Memories from Market Harborough

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 Market Harborough

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1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually remarried to a fantastic man who took on a single mother with two young children and a dream to do something better with his and therefore our lives, He was a test driver for Joseph Lucas and ...see more
There are enough clues to suggest that the fair-haired boy on the left of the photograph is me. My mother, brother and myself are walking home to School Lane which is at the top of the Talbot yard (the pub on the left hand side that they are nearing).