Market Harborough
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- 40 photos on Market Harborough appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Market Harborough
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Alma Friston nee Oldfield
I was born in Smeeton on April 23rd 1935. I remember staying with a Mr and Mrs Webb. As you approached Smeeton there were cottages on the left hand side, we stayed in the last one next to a lane. The cows came up this lane everyday for milking, quite often straying on to the garden, it was our job to shoo them away. Down this lane was a chapel which was on the left hand side, I remember singing here. We lived in Leicester during the war, having moved from Smeeton and Kibworth Harcourt.
I remember the grocery shop run by Miss Terry, we bought Jelly Dummies to suck on.
Lots of memories walking in the fields and smelling violets ...read more here
A memory of Smeeton Westerby contributed by Alma Friston
School uniform
When I passed the 11 plus exam I was selected to attend Kibworth Grammar School. The only place that you could get the uniform was the little shop in the photo to the right of the monument in the Square. This meant a trip by train from Wigston to Kibworth. This was quite feasible in the days before Dr Beeching closed all the railway stations. I remember the uniform cost my Mum a fortune and I only attended for one term as my Dad who was in the army was posted to Germany for 3 years. There I went to another school requiring yet another uniform.
A memory of Kibworth contributed by Richard Child
George Lynns grocers
My dad, Maurice Marsden, started work at the age of 14 in Lynns shop in 1937, after serving in the RAF and Fleet Air Arm during the war. He returned to the shop to work and finished up as manager. The shop closed in the 70s.
A memory of Kibworth contributed by graham marsden
Just a Kibbuth Lad
For those who have never been to our village called Kibworth, it is worth noting locals call it "Kibbuth". You live in either "Top Kibbuth"- Kibworth Harcourt or "Bottom Kibbuth"- Kibworth Beauchamp. I myself personally, have lived in both and almost on the boundary of both parishes. For almost the past 40 years (man & boy), I have spent many a happy hour living, playing and working here. Some of my earliest reminiscences are of taking a pair of shoes to be repaired at Old Joe Nourish's cobblers shop on the Leicester Road (just at the end of the Rose & Crown (now Raitha's) car park.
On arrival at his shop, you would press the thumb catch on his ...read more here
A memory of Kibworth Harcourt contributed by Wayne Coleman
Extracts From Market Harborough & Leicestershire books
The High Street, earlier called the Great Street, is lined either side with Georgian buildings which sit at the head of earlier burgage plots, much the same as at Uxbridge, Middlesex or St Ives, Huntingdonshire. The wide street provided the place where townsfolk and country visitors could barter or sell goods on a day-to-day basis, and it widens considerably either side of the church - this is more apparent from the air.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
Market Harborough’s tribute to the fallen occupies pride of place in The Square, originally called the Sheep Market, which lies at the southern end of the market place. Behind the cross, Adam and Eve Street leads up to the former corsetry factory. Over the years encroachments have closed down this open space, but this may be excused by the quality of the flat-fronted Georgian buildings in the photograph.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
The classic market-town juxtaposition of church and grammar school create an ideal composition. The beautiful crocketted spire soars above the town, almost dwarfing the pretty timber-faced school building. In the background, behind the school, is the Symingtons Corset Factory.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
A deserted street funnels into the town centre: Sunday morning perhaps? Beyond the high brick wall with its iron restraints, a very good array of Georgian houses lead the eye into the market place and on to St Dionysius Church.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
This was a rural tree-lined road where children could feel at ease and little danger threatened to befall the solitary cyclist. Now, cars leaving the town centre accelerate up and away towards Gallows Hill and The Kibworths.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".