Hello Listers Please can I ask for any information regarding two locations in Leicester in the early 20th century? My great-grandfather's two unmarried sisters Rebecca and Elizabeth (Lizzie) PIGGOTT lived at 66 Biddulph Street, Highfields, Leicester for some time during the period 1901-1930 (certainly during the 1920s). I have found them on the 1901 census in Onslow street, and I know that Lizzie died in February 1929 at Biddulph street. Looking at a modern map of Leicester, I find it hard to imagine there were as many as 66 houses in this street. Was some part of the street damaged during the war, or was there some drastic demolition programme? I possess a postcard from 1916 addressed to my grandmother Cathie PIGGOTT (aged about 20) "c/o Bushloe House, Wigston Magna, Leicester"; I have another postcard (same year) addressed to Miss Piggott (possibly my grandmother, or possibly her aunt Rebecca, as it appears to be signed "Lizzie") at Bushloe House, and another postcard (unstamped) showing a view of the front of Bushloe House with the following written on the back (punctuation uncorrected): " I will try to get a better one of this house before I come home but Mrs G. wont have any one in the garden taking photos". I find (from searching on the internet) that this building is on Station Road, and now used as Council offices, and that it was extensively decorated in the 1880s. Can anybody tell me what it was used for, or who owned the property, during the First World War? It looks too grand to have been a boarding house. One theory I have is that my grandmother was being trained as a nurse, as by early 1918 she was caring for wounded soldiers who had been sent to her local hospital (Stamford, Lincolnshire) for convalescence. My grandmother lived in Stamford with her father, stepmother and younger sister. John Riley Bourne, Lincs