South Wigston, Blaby Road c.1965
Photo ref:
S548024
More about this scene
As late as 1870, enclosure meadowland and hawthorn hedges stretched away from Wigston, but the ensuing period up to 1900 was to see a trebling of population figures as hosiers and boot and shoe manufacturers from Leicester moved in. Workers took up residence on a grid-iron of industrial streets, and the town boomed. This view along the Main Street, apart from the unattractive 1950s buildings in the foreground, looks beyond to the earlier Conservative Club and the Congregational Church; above the trees the protruding lead spike of St Thomas's Church (1893) by Stockdale Harrison can be seen, bringing together probably the best architectural group in the town.
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