Leicester Road
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Leicester Road
(formerly High Street) This cottage stood at the side of the Lord
Bassett P.H. It was demolished in the 1960's |
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Formerly High Street. An idyllic scene in what is now Leicester
Road circa 1904. Near where Sharnford Road and Grace Road are today.
It is hard to imagine now as every building shown
has been replaced.
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A view of
Leicester Road (originally High Street), just before the First World War. Note the thatched cottages and a lack of traffic. Apart from the Lord Bassett pub
on the left everything has been demolished and re-developed. 1904
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The Sapcote
Mill stood in the field off Leicester Rd in the 1800's, close to
where Granite Thorpe cottages are today. The Telephone exchange now
stands in its place.
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A photo of Leicester Rd which shows
the old shop on the left which was a bakery and the sign for the
Lord Basset swinging further down on the Right.
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Taken
just after the Second World War. The thatched cottage shown on the
right of the previous photo has been replaced by a modern property.
Motorised transport is now in evidence (parked opposite the bakery) and there is a sign post at
the junction of Sharnford Road. Once again, the Lord Bassett is the
only property remaining today.
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The
New Methodist Chapel was built in 1904, with the Old Methodist Chapel on it's
right.
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The
Old Methodist Chapel built in 1805 and knocked down in
the 1950's to build the existing Methodist Hall.
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This
was the last single cow shed in Sapcote, built in Victorian times with it's dry stone wall,
this was knocked down in the 1980's. |
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Clarke's garage (Ticker) which stood on
the corner of Sharnford Road and Leicester Road. 1962 |
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Three farms which were in the village centre. Ernie Bob's and
Michael Brown on the left, on the right Wallace Jesson's farm with
the three storey farm house, on the right of Jesson's was Mr.
Shelton's farm house. 1962
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Looking towards the cross from Jesson's
Farm, you can see the Old School and beyond it the house demolished
to build the new Co-Op. 1962 |
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Ivy
Farm on Leicester Road, opposite the Sharnford Road turn. 1962 |
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