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Working on the boats.
The wooden boats in the picture belong to the riverside restaurant, out of shot to the right. As a teenager, in 1974, it was my job on a Sunday afternoon to hire these out. We did have a few people fall out of the boats, but no one complained. A warm brew and some towels was all it took to make things right.
A memory of Barrow Upon Soar contributed by Paul Howard
Barn Croft.
The house in the middle is where I lived from 1972. The address is 62 Main Street and the house was called Barn Croft. The house on the right was a farm and the house that the middle house was built on was part of the farmyard. When the farm closed, one of the daughters had this built c1930. She lived there until she died c1970. Her name was Olive Clarke and was one of three girls I believe. The house had a barn at the bottom of the garden, converted in 1990 after my father sold the property in 1985. I have some belongings of Olive's like an autograph book and a booklet ...read more here
A memory of Cossington contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
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 Dance Display
The Wyggeston Girls Grammar School put on a Dance display for Parents. I remember my mum & younger sister coming to watch and my friend and I took them to a local espresso bar afterwards.
I also recall a visit with my dad to see Swan Lake c1949.
And I've seen Ray Charles a couple of times in the 60s, also Oscar Peterson, Jacques Loussier, and Elton John at the start of his career.
I haven't lived in Leicester for many years. All ths events took place in the 50s/60s.
Though I did see the Russian Ballet c1990.
A memory of Leicester contributed by maggie martin
Extracts From Humberstone & Leicestershire books
In a road of rather mundane buildings is the Palace Theatre, a remarkable building designed in a Moorish style by the Robert Adam of theatre design, Frank Matcham, for Moss Empires in 1901, with a seating capacity of 2,750. After some difficult years the theatre was demolished in 1959. The fine spire of St Marks Church of 1870 makes a worthwhile visual stop to this view north.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
To the young in Leicester in 1949, the Clock Tower seemed like the universe, and life revolved around it guided by policemen on point duty. Holidays were generally taken at Skegness, Mablethorpe or Great Yarmouth; pre-television entertainment was fairly extravagant, with seven cinemas in the town centre, including the Floral Hall, along with three live theatres. Within two miles of the Clock Tower, local cinemas abounded, only to be swept away in the 1960s purge, including the rather magnificent Trocadero at Humberstone, replaced by a petrol station.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
The Gothic Clock Tower, designed by local architect Joseph Goddard in 1868, is decorated with pinnacles and canopies, along with four Leicester worthies including Alderman Gabriel Newton and Simon de Montfort. Beyond Corts Limited can be seen the dominant dome of the Opera House, demolished in 1960, where each year the Christmas pantomime was staged, and appreciated with thunderous applause.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
The Edwardian and Victorian buildings in this part of the City are efficient without being distinctive. Closing the view south is the former General Accident Building of 1932, which Pevsner rather unkindly sums up as ‘a vile, impertinent lump’.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
In the centre is the dome of the Grand Hotel, built in 1898 to the designs of Cecil Ogden, and dismissed by Pevsner as ‘of no architectural value’, perhaps an over-critical view. In Belvoir Street in 1949, Cowlings Record Shop was much frequented by Leicester’s youth, who could sit in booths and hear the records before deciding whether or not to buy.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".