Loughborough, Alan Moss Road c.1955

Photo ref: L197036X

Photo ref: L197036X

Photo of Loughborough, Alan Moss Road c.1955

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Bastert was capable of acts of considerable kindness. Finding that one employee was walking ten miles to work due to money problems, Bastert paid the man's train fare. The Morris family lived locally and arranged parties there for all their employees. Cricket matches, sports of all kinds, dancing and a band concert were only some of these occasions. As many as 1,500 people - employees, their wives and children - were invited to these occasions. Barrels of ale, roast beef and cakes were provided, with the Morris family helping to serve the guests. By 1910 Morris cranes were in use all over the world. The catalogue for its products ran to almost 500 pages. Cranes of up to 50 tons were produced. In the years before the outbreak of war in 1914 and during the war itself the company's products were in great demand. The company also built up an important connection with Loughborough College School, the link between practical technology and education being a strong thread running through the story of Loughborough. This association between factory and school produced a supply of reliable recruitment for the company and a training ground for the engineers of the future.

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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).