Benjamin was born in 1830 one of eight children living in a cottage on Mountsorrel Green. His parents were Charles and Mary Preston and Charles was employed as a farmhand. Continue reading “Benjamin Preston”
Author: Keith Foster
Bull & Mouth pub (trading as “Slate” restaurant & bar since 2008)
Bull & Mouth pub, Leicester Road, Mountsorrel now trading as “Slate”. The origin of the name “Bull & Mouth” is believed to have been ‘Boulogne mouth’ relating to the capture of Boulogne by Henry VIII’s forces as a route into France. Continue reading “Bull & Mouth pub (trading as “Slate” restaurant & bar since 2008)”
Duke of York (now Waterside Inn), Sileby Road, Mountsorrel
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The Harrington Family
A man who was to be an integral part of Mountsorrel life in the late 19th and early 20th century, William Harrington, was born in 1846 in Melton Mowbray. The woman who was subsequently to be his wife and bear his many children, Mary Ann Louth Allam was born in Market Deeping in 1848.
Building of the Buttermarket
Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette – Thursday 01 November 1792
The Buttermarket
The Mountsorrel Buttermarket has been photographed, drawn and painted many times since it was first erected in 1793. Continue reading “The Buttermarket”
Some of the things said about Mountsorrel over the last 300 years
Diary of John Throsby 1677-1724
‘sometimes called Mount Sterile’
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Mountsorrel’s Secret Tunnel
It has long been rumoured that there was once a tunnel leading from the castle and emerging by the Temperance Hall. Read what various authors have written about it Continue reading “Mountsorrel’s Secret Tunnel”
Newspaper Cutting Regarding More House Building
