Asfordby
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Asfordby books (13 available)
Market Harborough Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Melton Mowbray Town and City Memories
Paperback
Uppingham Photographic Memories
Hardback
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Sunday school
I was put on the cradle roll at about 6 months and attended every sunday school anniversary from the age of 3 - 16 !!! Always had 2 new dresses fro the anniversary.. and a perm!!
I had forgotten about Mr Chapman - thank you for the reminder!
Mrs hall was the lady in charge of the infants sunday school
Got married in this chapel in 1975... I had forgotten how bare the place was....but it brings back memories of how big the building was and how much it was used in the 50/60's - the room upstairs was massive, and the stage.. never quite felt safe on that but there were afew good (using the work loosley)plays were put ...read more here
A memory of Melton Mowbray contributed by denise meadwell
I'm still owed ten shillings!
I remember the inside of the Baptist Chapel as I attended regularly from the age of 5 until my early teens. A Reverand Exall and a one-armed man called Mr. Chapman were in charge. On Anniversaries they used to put staging up either side of the organ and I used to like to sit right at the very top. I was promised if I passed the scripture exam they would pay me 10 shillings. I did pass but never got the money!
A memory of Melton Mowbray contributed by clive dixon
MY FATHER (CAPTURED IN TIME)
THE MAN ON THE RIGHT WITH THE RAINCOAT IS ALBERT TOMAS DIXON. HE LIVED IN MELTON ALL HIS LIFE . HE WAS BORN IN 1910 AND DIED IN 2001. HE WORKED FOR THE POST OFFICE AND STARTED AS AN ERRAND BOY RISING TO ASSISTANT POSTMASTER OF MELTON. HE NEVER HAD A CAR AND WALKED FROM HIS HOME AT 217 ASFORDBY RD IN THE MORNING THEN HOME FOR LUNCH THEN BACK TO WORK AND HOME AGAIN IN THE EVENING WALKING 4 MILES EVERY WORKING DAY. THIS IS MY FATHER AND THIS PHOTO MUST HAVE BEEN TAKEN WHEN I WAS 5 YEARS OLD. I CAN ALWAYS REMEMBER HIM TAKING ME INTO 'PACEY'S' SHOWN OPPPOSITE TO ...read more here
A memory of Melton Mowbray contributed by clive dixon
Emma and John Hewerdine
Emma and John Hewerdine are possibly my great great grandparents and I think that John is actually buried in Scalford churchyard. He died in 1912 of exposure being found in Thorpe Arnold, and that story is far too long to relate here. He was a carpenter / joiner but I have no idea what if anything Emma may have done. In 1912 he would have been 78 years of age and when Emma died in 1919 she was about 76 years of age. My great grandfather Thomas Lee and Frances Mary would have been brother and sister.
A memory of Scalford contributed by Richard Fordham
Extracts From Asfordby & Leicestershire books
The late 19th-century industrial face of the village percolates through the photograph, providing a dramatic contrast to Church Lane, which runs almost picturesquely away to the right of the cross.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
The 15th-century spire soars above the River Wreake on its south side, with the now rather mundane Village Street to its north. Internally, there is little to detain the visitor, apart from the nave roof with its stone heads and wooden angels.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
Formerly the manor house of about 1620, this fine red brick building is now itself deteriorating. Sashed windows, within stone surrounds under triple gables, grace a quietly elegant facade. Internally Jacobean woodwork survives, as does a wooden spiral back stair. Facing Main Street is the early 19th-century coach-house and stable to The Old Hall.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
This wonderful photograph could be used
to illustrate any romantic 19th-century
novel. At the end of Church Lane to the
west of All Saints’ Church the base of a
medieval cross survives with its new shaft
and head of the 1920s. Inside the church,
remnants of a carved Saxon cross
depicting a dragon and a priest are built
into the south aisle. The building is
impressive: tower and crocketed spire is
15th-century, while the body is of the
14th century. Some reused Norman
stones survive in what appears to be a
small Easter Sepulchre. The red brick
rectory dates from about 1810.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
For nearly a hundred years, the Holwell ironworks were an important focus for the village. Its self-contained agricultural origins have almost totally disappeared, and today modern housing is fairly extensive. Views such as this, however, are still easily recognisable.
An extract from from"Leicestershire & Rutland Living Memories".