Kegworth, High Street c.1960
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K139005
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The camera looks east down the High Street, which opens onto Church Gate and Derby Road. Kegworth's origins lay in its medieval weekly market and annual fair. The arrival of framework knitters heralded a dour expansion of red brick housing and hosiery factories, but some nice examples of vernacular architecture are to be found in the village. In the photograph, a butcher's shop front (left) with its rather flimsy canopy has been built into a rather good 17th- century cottage. Further on towards the parish church are a selection of early 19th-century houses, matched on the opposite side of the road by a later three-storey brick terrace.
An extract from Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories.
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