My grandfather's family lived next to the Methodist Church at 2 Main Street until the mid 1940s I think although my great grandmother may still have lived there until her death in 1976. My great aunt and uncle ran the Horse and Groom pub in the 1930s and my grandparents met each other there when my granddad was home on leave from the army and my nana was staying with her sister. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emma Faulkner Sent: 15 February 2012 09:33 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LEI] All these memories 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)]. 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Wow, they probably knew my Great-Great Uncle then, Albert Cross. He and his wife Myra lived on the main road (not sure which number now), and then my Mum, brother and sister moved in with him in the 1960s On 15 February 2012 09:52, Alison Bendall <[email protected]> wrote: > My grandfather's family lived next to the Methodist Church at 2 Main > Street until the mid 1940s I think although my great grandmother may still > have lived there until her death in 1976. My great aunt and uncle ran the > Horse and Groom pub in the 1930s and my grandparents met each other there > when my granddad was home on leave from the army and my nana was staying > with her sister. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Emma Faulkner > Sent: 15 February 2012 09:33 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LEI] All these memories > > 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. 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I am also enjoying all of your memories of Leicester in the 50's it has bought back many happy times I spent as a child growing up in Belgrave. My gg grandfather lived in Queniborough back in the late 1880's and family members did run a pub in the villiage as well and as I have never been there these last two emails are of great interest to me. My gg grandfathers name was Sam North, he was a farmer and butcher, he was married to Mary Ann. His son John was my grandfather. Margaret Riley On 15/02/2012 09:52, Alison Bendall wrote: > My grandfather's family lived next to the Methodist Church at 2 Main Street until the mid 1940s I think although my great grandmother may still have lived there until her death in 1976. My great aunt and uncle ran the Horse and Groom pub in the 1930s and my grandparents met each other there when my granddad was home on leave from the army and my nana was staying with her sister. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Emma Faulkner > Sent: 15 February 2012 09:33 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LEI] All these memories > > 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)]. 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