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Historical Photos
(With thanks to Keith Hextall
and The Mc Naughtons)
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	Church Street Views		From the Church Tower
	Leicester Road (The Basset)		Around the Crossroads (Now the Co-Op)
	Stanton Road (The Post Office Road)		People and Places

Church Street

Towards The Church
Looking down from the Red Lion. All these properties have been replaced.

Towards the Crossroads
A view of looking towards the Cross. All the properties on the right hand side have been replaced. The left hand side remains virtually the same. Note the cobbled pavements and the rough road surface. Taken just before the First World War.

Towards The Church
Circa 1928. The gap on the left was the site of the thatched cottages.

Towards the Crossroads
The cottages between the doorway on the left and the white painted cottages have been replaced with a pair of semi-detached houses set back from the footpath. The house at the top of the street known as the Dove House was demolished in the 1970's.

Towards the Crossroads
A view from the Lychgate. There is an empty space where the thatched cottages stood on the right of the picture. Electricity poles are painted in white bands. Was this done in wartime? Note how restricted the poles have made the pavement. Photograph taken in the 1940's.

Towards the Crossroads
Taken just after the Second World War. Electricity has arrived note the poles down the pavements. The tall building on the left, and the houses next to it have been replaced by a pair of semi-detached houses. The building on the right known as Browns Farm has been replaced with modern buildings.

Church Street	Number 41 taken in the 1940's. This cottage has been subject to much external modernisation.	Church Street	This thatched cottage, off Church Street, stood in the grounds of what is now part of the Old School garden.
	This is the old Co-Op on Church Street. Used until the present one was built in the 1960's.	Church Street	The Old Rectory, Church Street as it was built in 1876. In 1960 the right hand side (servants wing) was demolished. It is the third rectory that has stood on the site. The earliest dating back to the 14th century when it was built as a college of chantry priests - one of only two in the county. In 1980, a new parsonage house was built in Sharnford Road and the former house sold by auction.