People
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Henry
Sanders
30-1-1871 to 11-06-1932
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This was a frame knitters cottage which
stood down Hinckley road, where the present O.A.P. bungalows now
stand.
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Sapcote
residents in Leicester Road. |
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Looking down Stanton Road from the
crossroads towards the Post Office.
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Having
your photograph taken was a big event and worth your Sunday Best in
1904 |
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Brown's buses had their garage down at the
bottom of Church Street, where the Library and Church Hall now stand.
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Looking down Church Street
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These
Stone Masons were doing work on the steeple of All Saints church.
Here they stand with the church weather cock. May 1980 |
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The Post Office girls outside their shop,
now the corner shop during the second world war.
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The
shop-worker standing in the doorway of the old Co-Op in Church Sreet. |
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Freeholt Lodge off
Hinckley Road taken in the early 1960's before the motorway was constructed
through part of the field on the right. Note the ridge and furrow in front of
the farm house.
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The
House of Industry was situated in Hinckley Road beyond the entrance
to Frewen Drive. Begun in 1805 and completed in in 1806 at a cost of
1,300 most being provided by Mr Frewen Turner, the Squire,
the rest by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor. It was
built for the reception of the poor of fifteen, later increased to
twenty, neighboring parishes. The inmates were removed to the new
House at Hinckley in 1840 and the building was used as a farmhouse
and premises. Later it was converted into cottages and was finally
demolished in 1959.
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These
old sand and gravel cottages with their thatched roofs stood on
Sharnford Road, opposite the Calver Cottages. |
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These old sand and gravel cottages with
their thatched roofs stood on Sharnford Road, opposite the Calver Cottages.
Thatching needed repairing regularly. In the doorway stand Jarvis and
Elizah Brown. This was demolished in 1930.
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