Queniborough. My family moved there from Lincolnshire in about 1954 and of course after WW2 things were a bit tough shopping wise, but I do remember in the late 50's/early 60's we were never allowed to buy the individual wrapped in paper Walls Ice cream "bars" but just before lunch on Sunday I was given 2/- by mum & walked from 91 Main Street to Mrs Hooleys near the lane way alongside the "tree" and the 2 pubs (Britannia - aka Stubbies - & the Horse and Groom) to buy a block of ice cream which was the family tret at lunch or tea time! Other retail places included Oliver Wright's Crossroad Stores - the village grocers where Mum used to deliver her order book - and then her would create a box of our stuff & Mum would collect it later on. When going to Roundhill HS we used to wait there for Clayton's coach to collect us. Newspapers were of course delivered morning & night by boys working for the newsagent in Syston Road. Mrs Mansfield used to run the Post Office at about 30 Main Street opposite the Horse & Groom and I think used to sell a few groceries form there. Quite a poorly lit shop if I remember. Another memory of that shop was that a regular customer was an old gent from a couple of doors along who regretfully used to have horrendous body odour and if he walked in the shoppers would immediately go outside & he got to the front of the queue! Ladies hair dresser was Janet Stubbs & she had a shop almost alongside Mrs Hooleys. My own hair - I had enough to cut then - was cut by Dad when I was sitting on a stool in the kitchen with hand clippers. Village butcher was Reg (then his son Ian) Bramley. Didn't Ian end up Marrying Janet S? There were a few shops and Branston's service station on Melton Road opposite New Zealand Lane, but we rarely used that area as we were used to the "old" part of the village. We were not strictly C of E but Mum & Dad used to insist that we kids go to the village Hall (past the Methodist Chappel) after lunch each Sunday to go to Sunday School. We would rush home because if I remember correctly we could get there in time to watch the Sunday afternoon movie on TV. Who remembers the Sunday evening TV movies and also "Sunday Night at the London Palladium"? I knew I had grown up when I was allowed to watch the latter after the half time break! Just a few memories of childhood in Quenni in the 50's & 60's! Peter Holmes Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter HOLMES Sent: Wednesday, 15 February 2012 5:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LEI] All these memories It's amazing that all of these memories of dialect, shop names and products has created such a series of threads! Regretfully I do not have the time to do so but if someone edited & collated it all to a single document it would make a great segment in the Rootsweb/Genuki (??) Leicestershire page perhaps? Peter Holmes Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario Canada & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Wow, Peter - doesn't sound like Queni had changed much by the time I was a kid in the 70s. The Wrights still ran the Crossroads Store - no leaving of the order book by then, he just filled your basket while you waited. I had 10p pocket money and I'd either buy sweets from the wooden counter at the back on the left, or in the late 70s I used to save up for a £1 little circular jigsaw off the shelf above. There was a pig farm at the top of the village, on School Lane, and the old school on that road had been converted to a swimming pool by the time I started school, and the new primary school opened. Ian Bramley ran the butchers, the post office & hairdressers were still going and there was an offie as well. Janet Hartshorn did some hairdressing from home. The world revolved around the scout building/methodist hall in the 70s: playgroup, the village library, Sunday school (at which my brother Michael taught), Young Mothers, the photographic club, the WI, brownies, guides, cubs and scouts - all met here. There were regular barn dances at the village hall on Rearsby Road, and in about 1980 a youth club started too. In 1977 Queniborough jumped on the band wagon and was twinned with Sceaux-du-Gatinais/Courtempierre - my Mum was on the advance trip and both my parents were involved. Thanks to the Twinning Association trips every year, I developed an ear for languages early on which has persisted to this day - I use French every day in my work. In 1980 or 1981, a committee purchased some land at the top of the village and created a village cemetery. It is still privately owned by committee. My father was heavily involved as he was on the Parish Council at the time, and he took the photo of the new lych gate that appeared in the commemorative issue of the gazette. In the early 80s, the Saxon mud wall outside the village was demolished to make way for a new housing development. Rumours & grumbles at the time maintained that it was pushed through due to certain people having friends on the council. In a vain effort to appease villagers, many of the roads on the estate were named after villagers that had passed away in the past year, including "Michael Close" which was named after my brother. Back in the 60s, Queni didn't even have proper pavements. Now it's a wealthy commuter village with a bypass, famed for a BSE outbreak. On 14 February 2012 22:51, Peter HOLMES <[email protected]> wrote: > Queniborough. > > My family moved there from Lincolnshire in about 1954 and of course after > WW2 things were a bit tough shopping wise, but I do remember in the late > 50's/early 60's we were never allowed to buy the individual wrapped in > paper > Walls Ice cream "bars" but just before lunch on Sunday I was given 2/- by > mum & walked from 91 Main Street to Mrs Hooleys near the lane way > alongside > the "tree" and the 2 pubs (Britannia - aka Stubbies - & the Horse and > Groom) > to buy a block of ice cream which was the family tret at lunch or tea time! > > Other retail places included Oliver Wright's Crossroad Stores - the village > grocers where Mum used to deliver her order book - and then her would > create > a box of our stuff & Mum would collect it later on. When going to Roundhill > HS we used to wait there for Clayton's coach to collect us. > > Newspapers were of course delivered morning & night by boys working for the > newsagent in Syston Road. > > Mrs Mansfield used to run the Post Office at about 30 Main Street opposite > the Horse & Groom and I think used to sell a few groceries form there. > Quite > a poorly lit shop if I remember. Another memory of that shop was that a > regular customer was an old gent from a couple of doors along who > regretfully used to have horrendous body odour and if he walked in the > shoppers would immediately go outside & he got to the front of the queue! > > Ladies hair dresser was Janet Stubbs & she had a shop almost alongside Mrs > Hooleys. My own hair - I had enough to cut then - was cut by Dad when I was > sitting on a stool in the kitchen with hand clippers. > > Village butcher was Reg (then his son Ian) Bramley. Didn't Ian end up > Marrying Janet S? > > There were a few shops and Branston's service station on Melton Road > opposite New Zealand Lane, but we rarely used that area as we were used to > the "old" part of the village. > > We were not strictly C of E but Mum & Dad used to insist that we kids go to > the village Hall (past the Methodist Chappel) after lunch each Sunday to go > to Sunday School. We would rush home because if I remember correctly we > could get there in time to watch the Sunday afternoon movie on TV. > > Who remembers the Sunday evening TV movies and also "Sunday Night at the > London Palladium"? I knew I had grown up when I was allowed to watch the > latter after the half time break! > > Just a few memories of childhood in Quenni in the 50's & 60's! > > Peter Holmes > Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes > [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then > Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. > [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER > (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S > Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario > Canada > & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless > stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter > HOLMES > Sent: Wednesday, 15 February 2012 5:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LEI] All these memories > > It's amazing that all of these memories of dialect, shop names and products > has created such a series of threads! > > > > Regretfully I do not have the time to do so but if someone edited & > collated > it all to a single document it would make a great segment in the > Rootsweb/Genuki (??) Leicestershire page perhaps? > > > > Peter Holmes > > Western Australia. Skype ; p.g.holmes > > [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Manthorpe, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Donington then > Leicestershire)]. [DAVISON (Spalding, Donington, Ingoldmells, Skegness)]. > [CRAGG (Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire)] [FREER > (Leicestershire)]. [RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Anwick, N & S Kyme, N & S > Rauceby, Surfleet, Gosberton Clough etc., Spalding)] [RYLOTT (Ontario > Canada > & some in New York & Florida USA)] Villages are in Lincolnshire unless > stated. PLUS 4 DUTCH surname lines - from Rotterdam area (in Dutch). > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >