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Rothley, The Park c.1955
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A rough outfield, a pavilion with very few spectators in a tree-shrouded ground - this could be almost anywhere in England. Given a tough time by Edward III, but surprisingly not by James I and VI (1603- 25) in his 'Book of Sports', cricket was in good health by 1700. Over-arm bowling arrived officially in 1864, and the first Test Match was played in Australia in 1877. It could be that the players in the photograph went on to bigger things, or maybe they played out the overs as solicitors or Council officials in the city.

An extract from Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories.

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Rothley My Home
It is now 41 years since I resided in Rothley, and there is not one day that passes that I don't think about it. Recently I found photographs on an 'Old Rothley' website, as I was browsing I found a photograph of my parents standing outside of their shop, on Woodgate. Another photograph was of my father in his shop, and there was also one of school children at the Rothley Infant School in Church Street taken in the ...see more
Rothley, Woodgate 1951
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Woodgate

I too was brought up in Rothley. I lived at 72, Woodgate. At the time it was the local telephone exchange, operated manually, my mother being the night operator. I remember George Hunt well, along with the Elkingtons, I used to get my sweets and collect Archie Andrews lollypop sticks! There was Mr Brewin who sold bicycles and all sorts of electrical things. At the bottom of the village opposite the Green there was Goodalls ...see more
Rothley, Woodgate 1951
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Growing Up In Rothley
Rothley is and always will be my home no matter where in the world i live, It is 36 Years since i resided on Woodgate my father is George Hunt, he owned the Barbers shop at no 19 untill his retirement almost 25 years ago. When i lived on Woodgate we had Betty Smith the chemist on one side of us and Dick Elkington and his wife on the other running the sweet shop, which later i believe became the Candy Store. and ...see more
Rothley, Woodgate 1951
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