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Rothley books (9 available)
- 13 photos on Rothley appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Rothley
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Growing up in Rothley
Rothley is and always will be my home no matter where in the world i live, It is 36 Years since i resided on Woodgate my father is George Hunt, he owned the Barbers shop at no 19 untill his retirement almost 25 years ago.
When i lived on Woodgate we had Betty Smith the chemist on one side of us and Dick Elkington and his wife on the other running the sweet shop, which later i believe became the Candy Store. and next to that was George Hutchins the Newsagent.
I especially used to love the time leading up to Christmas, when all the shop windows on Woodgate were decorated with Fairy lights and false snow, coming home from ...read more here
Contributed by Sandie Lee
Leicestershire memories
Growing up in Rothley
Rothley is and always will be my home no matter where in the world i live, It is 36 Years since i resided on Woodgate my father is George Hunt, he owned the Barbers shop at no 19 untill his retirement almost 25 years ago.
When i lived on Woodgate we had Betty Smith the chemist on one side of us and Dick Elkington and his wife on the other running the sweet shop, which later i believe became the Candy Store. and next to that was George Hutchins the Newsagent.
I especially used to love the time leading up to Christmas, when all the shop windows on Woodgate were decorated with Fairy lights and false snow, coming home from ...read more here
A memory of Rothley contributed by Sandie Lee
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
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
Extracts From Rothley & Leicestershire books
A scene which is familiar to us all, even in the rush of today’s ‘rat-run’ world. Plodding cows head for the milking parlour, guided by the farmer on his wobbly upright bicycle.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
Thomas Babington
Macaulay, Rothley’s
most famous son, was
born at Rothley Temple
on St Crispin’s Day,
1800, the son of the
anti-slaver, Zachary
Macaulay. Thomas
became the Whig MP
for Calne, Leeds, but it
was his masterpiece -
‘A History of England’,
that brought him fame.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Beautiful Villages".
Here we see the mundane suburban face of the village, which has grown around a core of rather special later medieval houses and the Rothley Temple, built on Knights Templar land in c1315. Along with Temple Church, London and Temple Balsall, Warwickshire, the chapel is one of the finest in England.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Photographic Memories".
The triple gables of the early 17th-century house form the centrepiece, with flanking wings. John
Ely, a Manchester architect, added the Tudoresque bay window to the right in 1894. Thomas
Babington Macaulay (1800-52), the historian and essayist, was born at the Temple on St Crispin’s
Day 1800, and it was his masterpiece ‘The History of England’, published between 1848 and 1862,
for which he is most remembered.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".
A rough outfield, a pavilion
with very few spectators in a
tree-shrouded ground - this
could be almost anywhere in
England. Given a tough time
by Edward III, but surprisingly
not by James I and VI (1603-
25) in his ‘Book of Sports’,
cricket was in good health by
1700. Over-arm bowling
arrived officially in 1864, and
the first Test Match was played
in Australia in 1877. It could
be that the players in the
photograph went on to bigger
things, or maybe they played
out the overs as solicitors or
Council officials in the city.
An extract from from"Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories".