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My Great grandfather was born in Newtown Linford 1879
Daniel Gretton : Born: abt 1854
Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, England
Died: 1913
Resided in Village Street, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, England
Daniel was dis - owned by his family, and his very name expunged from the family records, for either or both sins. Of having no ambition or having married a Jewess.
Eliza Cook
Born: 1854
Leire, Leicestershire, England
Died: 1931
Having blotted the heretofore pristine family escutcheon, he sank lower and lower, and took most of his family with him.
His marriage certificate had his profession as a 'Highway worker', and his death certificate read 'Treefeller'.
His sole claim to immortality was that he felled the largest oak at ...read more here
A memory of Newtown Linford contributed by leigh gretton
Family Recollections of Kirby Muxloe - 1913 to 1969.
My memories of Kirby Muxloe date back to 1949, when I was a bridesmaid at my father’s cousin Anne’s wedding at St Bartholomew’s Church. However it is the castle that I remember most, since we had to drive past it to visit her parents, my Great Aunt Nell and Great Uncle Stan in Desford Lane. In 1969 I photographed the Castle when I took my own sons to visit Anne’s sister, Eva, who lived on at the same house after their parents’ deaths.
My father was born in 1913 and he and his parents lived next door to Stan and Nell for the first twenty or so years of his life. He had vivid recollections of the castle. He wrote in ...read more here
A memory of Kirby Muxloe contributed by Jane Sealy
Childhood summer holidays at Taylor's Rock, Woodhouse Eaves
I spent many a summer holiday as a child (between 1976 and around 1983) at Taylor's Rock on Beacon Road, Woodhouse Eaves. I still consider it to be the only place I have ever truly felt at home and I miss it dreadfully, even now! I have incredibly fond memories of Broombriggs Cottage Farm, next to Taylor's Rock, time spent playing in the Beacon - there was the most wonderful tree there - great for climbing or just sitting on - I often wonder if it's still there..... My sister and I used to love driving into Woodhouse Eaves with our Great Aunt to collect fresh eggs or newspapers. The postman stopped to join us for breakfast at Taylor's Rock ...read more here
A memory of Woodhouse Eaves contributed by Lorna Beech
School Days
I grew up in Woodhouse Eaves and my siblings and I went to the school in this picture. This is of St Paul's junior school and if my memory is correct it had four classrooms, and the headmaster's office was in the building closest in view. We had to go into his office to get our school supplies as he had them stored in a great big cupboard! The metal barrier outside each entrance was a favourite for doing somersaults over.
Every school day we would walk from school to our dinner room which is pictured down on Main St on the left. We had to cross the street at the bottom, and a lady called Mrs. Hardy would ...read more here
A memory of Woodhouse Eaves contributed by Josephine Linger
Extracts From Groby & Leicestershire books
The church, which dates from 1840, lies to the south of the castle motte, and close to the busy A50 bypass. Raised
well above the road, with its emaciated battlemented tower and unimaginative body, it was designed by William
), who was at the time Architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the designer of
Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square. The two-bay Chancel was added in 1912.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
The Greys of Bradgate fame and the Ferrars
have lived at the Old Hall; Lady Elizabeth
Ferrars married Sir Edward Grey, later Lord
Ferrars. His son married Elizabeth Woodville,
who went on to marry King Edward IV after
she was widowed at the battle of St Albans in
1461. The photograph shows two parallel late
16th-century gabled blocks with large
mullion and transom windows. Some
fragments of the building may date to the
ownership of the Greys.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
A lovely composition of local stone cottages in the lee of the tree-shrouded parish church. They rely on simple
but excellent details, such as the timber-bracketed door hood and an unusual cantilevered canted bay window
prominent to the right - no incongruous plastic windows and doors in 1960. The modern expansion of Groby as
a Leicester suburb is to be glimpsed as the main road swings to the right towards Coalville. In front of the church
is a three-storey tower which forms a part of the basically 15th-century Old Hall.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
The A50 bypass now divides the village from
its castle, of which only the motte survives;
the remainder was demolished in the later
12th century. The local stone cottages in the
lee of the tree-shrouded parish church
(centre) rely on simple, but excellent, details
for effect - no incongruous plastic windows
and doors here. In front of the church is a
three-storey tower which forms a part of the
Old Hall. The modern expansion of Groby as
a Leicester suburb can be seen on the left, as
the road swings towards Coalville.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
Before the birth of theme
parks, a day out in the late
1950s (when comparatively
few people owned a car) was
by Midland Red bus to
Groby Pool, Swithland
Woods and Bradgate Park,
with the statutory climb up
to Old John. Once it was
larger, but its 40 acres
qualified the pool as the
largest sheet of water in the
county until the 19th
century, hence the saying ‘to
thatch Groby Pool with
pancakes’ indicates any
impossible undertaking. The
photograph looks north,
with Pool House glimpsed
on the extreme right, while
the granite quarries are
beyond the trees.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".