Kilby
Kilby maps (2 available)
Map of Leicestershire
Beautifully hand-drawn and coloured, dating from around 1840
See this old map of Leicestershire
Personalised maps
Create an historic map centred directly on any postcode!
Kilby books (6 available)
Kilby memories
Read and share memories of Kilby and Leicestershire inspired by Frith photos
Be the first to add a memory of Kilby.
You can also read memories of nearby places in Leicestershire below.
Leicestershire memories
Countesthorpe
My name is Marlis Franz. I am German. In 1952, I was 15 years old, I visited my English penfriend in Countesthorpe together with my mother. We spent a wonderful time there. Going on holiday was not normal at this time and something special - particularly going to England.
My English girl-friend lived together with her parents in Countesthorpe, Station Road. When we visited her there was a post office in this house and a little shop. What a surprise when I saw the Countesthorpe photos and there was a photo "Countesthorpe, Station Road". I think it must be the house where the Fletcher family lived in when we visited them. I cannot forget the wonderful weeks we spent there ...read more here
A memory of Countesthorpe contributed by Marlis Franz
Bell Street
I remember going to Bell Street around 1967/8 to see Michael Aspel open "Key Markets" which was a supermarket of sorts, and would be on the left-hand-side of this picture (I think either next door to the Co-op, or may have occupied the same space for a while until it closed down.
Also Foryan's (not sure of the spelling) bicycle and toy shop on the other side of the road (now the cancer charity shop). The old chap who owned it, sold bikes (Raleighs) but knew absolutely nothing about them, so a popular school-boy prank, which was a great source of amusement to me and my friends, was to go into the shop and ask for something like a pair of ...read more here
A memory of Wigston contributed by David Harriman
happy days
The corner shop was Tyler's, a sweet and grocers shop. They sold 1d iced lollies made from a juice drink similar to Ribena. You were allowed out to play all day except Sundays, and we would very often go around in a little gang. We especially enjoyed going over the fields (the hills and hollows) behind Church Nook, to two little ponds to fish for tadpoles and further along to Rally Bridge, which was a footbridge across the railway line. Memories come back of running through the steam of the trains across the bridge for a dare.
A memory of Wigston contributed by First Name Last Name
Basset Street School
I remember this school so well, my first born went to this school in 1983 and so did my daughter, it's a shame they pulled part of it down. I remember walking the children over to what is now the infant school to use their swimming pool, later when they pulled some of the old school down the children were moved to the infant school in South Wigston, on the Countesthorpe Road, where all three of my children went, they then moved on to South Wigston High School where they had a real good head master, Mr Bothamy (sorry about the spelling).
A memory of South Wigston contributed by ruth carroll
Extracts From Kilby & Leicestershire books
A pleasant, traffic-free scene with the horse and cart unattended, patiently waiting for the master’s return from Illsley the
saddlers. The post office is on the left then Corney Manufacturing Jeweller. Amongst other businesses is the chemist beyond
the Crown Hotel and opposite, the family firm of Matkin’s printers, who from 1881 to 1941 published an almanac listing
people and occupations in town and county. Flore’s House protrudes in the distance - one of the oldest houses in Oakham
dating from the 14th century.
An extract from from"Uppingham Photographic Memories".
This classic view has All
Saints’ spire behind the
shops with the famous
Butter Cross (at least 300
years old) in the middle.
Hart and Smith next to each
other seem to sell just about
everything anyone could
want - postcards, wooden
hoops, newspapers, parasols, toys
and groceries. Glaziers, the
well-known family draper,
milliner, outfitter and
clothier is opposite the
Butter Cross selling trilby
hats at 3s 11d, boys suits
from 7s 11d and a galaxy of
other goods.
An extract from from"Uppingham Photographic Memories".
Until 1880 this area was the
butchers’ shambles, then
replaced by the pump (in the
shelter, foreground). There
are milk churns on the cart
outside F W Hart ‘Family
Grocer, Tea and Provision
Merchant’. Note the errand
boy’s bike propped up
against the gas light. There is
a motorbike and sidecar up
in the corner near the Butter
Cross. Could it be the one
bought for the police station
in 1926? A boarding house of
Oakham School is behind the
pump surrounded by railings.
An extract from from"Uppingham Photographic Memories".
On the left are RDC houses
perhaps built in the 1950s.
Further down, a large barn
and an old house beyond. A
local character, Miss Barrow,
lived in Ancaster House
where she was well known
for her vegetable garden.
She kept her Rolls-Royce in
the barn. The house on the
right looks like a former
estate cottage of which there
are many in the village.
Empingham is in the
limestone area and now we
begin to see more stone
walls, as in the photograph.
An extract from from"Uppingham Photographic Memories".
This is Loves Lane
leading off the Main
Street and heading for
Horn Mill. There is a
mixture of housing
from thatched and
tiled to prefabricated
postwar styles. The
post office is also a
‘Savings Bank’ and
‘Money Order Office’.
Bus timetables
announce United
Counties services.
Lyons lollies and
Woodbines are on
sale, no doubt
amongst many other
useful necessities.
An extract from from"Uppingham Photographic Memories".