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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
Contributed by leigh gretton
Leicestershire memories
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
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 Newtown Linford & Leicestershire books
Ribbon development of local stone houses under thatched and slated roofs, while not overheating the blood, do
present a well-ordered scene; their dates range from the pre-17th century to modern, close to the parish church
and the entrance to Bradgate Park. The parish pump, where the village must have originated in c 1293, is just out
of shot to the left of the photograph. The small shop to the extreme right has been converted to residential use.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
St Mary de Castro Church c1955
St.Mary de Castro, situated as its name
implies within the medieval castle, was
founded by Robert de Beaumont in
1107 as a secular college, but by c1143
it had been annexed to Leicester’s large
Augustinian abbey. Although much
restored in the 19th century, and its spire
rebuilt in 1785, it is pleasing if not quite
spectacular. Internally the church is an
exercise in building archaeology rather
than a thing of great beauty. A visit to St
Mary’s is a must for anyone who has not
already done so, accompanied by an up-
to-date copy of Pevsner.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
This photograph is dominated by a fine example of a stag-head oak, a normal condition, not
a dying tree. The speed regulation signs do little to enhance an otherwise idyllic scene on
the A50 Leicester-Coalville (Bradgate) Road, looking across to All Saints’ Church, standing
adjacent to the entrance to Bradgate Park. The church is comparatively plain apart from its
large 15th-century traceried window on its south side. The Leicester architects Harry
Roberts and John Woodhouse-Simpson added the north aisle and chancel in 1859.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
Bradgate, a park of 820 acres, was enclosed out of Charnwood Forest in c1200 as a hunting park, and it did indeed
produce very fine venison. Started around 1490 by Thomas Grey. 1st Marquis of Dorset, and built using bricks
produced on the site, the house was the county’s first true country house. By 1696 it and its formal gardens had
developed to such quality that William III was pleased to be entertained here. It was, of course, the birth-place of
Lady Jane Grey, the ill fated nine-days queen, who was executed in the Tower of London in 1554. The house fell
into ruin after the 1730s when the family left, although the chapel has been preserved under a modern roof.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".
The pinnacled and canopied Clock Tower, designed by Joseph
Goddard in 1868, dominates the forefront of the photograph,
while its four stoney local worthies, Simon de Montfort, William
Wyggeston, Alderman Gabriel Newton and Sir Thomas White,
Mayor of Leicester and mine host at the nearby Horse and
Trumpet, gaze down. 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
by generations of children.
An extract from from"Leicester Photographic Memories".