My mum regularly cycled from her home on Cranmer Street to Bradgate Park in the 50s :) -----Original Message----- From: leicestershire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:leicestershire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nivard Ovington Sent: 31 March 2014 18:41 To: leicestershire-plus@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LEI] 1950's search. Hi Terry Newtown Linford to Leicester city centre is under 6 miles, I would expect someone would use the bus in the 50's, not aware of any railway line around there but there were many more usable lines then pre Beeching Or failing that bicycle or even shanks pony We couldn't afford public transport so walked everywhere, 6 or 7 miles was not that unusual, although if it were for work I would think the bus more likely With the lack of cars the bus service was better then Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 31/03/2014 18:31, Terry Holmes wrote: > Does anyone know where bradgate park cottages were in the 1950's, if > they were newtown lindford (braggy park) how would someone get there > from leicester in the 50's. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Ali We thought very little of getting home from school and cycling to Braggy Park, stay ten minutes and cycle back again, a round trip of about fifteen miles Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 31/03/2014 19:16, Ali Bendall wrote: > My mum regularly cycled from her home on Cranmer Street to Bradgate Park in the 50s :) >