This postcard was posted in 1904 to a Mrs Amsworth in America.
The 1902 Education Act integrated denominational schools into the state and provided for their support from taxes. Continue reading “Passive Resistance meeting on The Green”
“Mountsorrel’ by E W Hensman page 123 in ‘Memorials of old Leicestershire’, edited by Alice Dryden, Published 1911
Continue reading “Neglected Buttermarket-yearly suffers more and more decay”
Leicester Chronicle – Saturday 26 March 1881 Leicester Chronicle
Continue reading “Neglected Buttermarket-painful state of dirt and dilapidation”
This photograph, donated by Carol Jordan, was taken on The Green, possibly on VE Day. Can anybody identify any more of the faces? Continue reading “Street Party Possibly VE Day”
Edwin Foulds, a gardener and seedsman 
lived in the cottage on the right. His neighbour William Smith, who he went rabbiting with, was a grocer and lived in the house next door. Continue reading “Letters from Edwin Otho Foulds”
This article was written by Neroli Whittle from a series of first-hand Mountsorrel interviews and published in the Leicester Evening Mail on 27th June 1935 Continue reading “Mountsorrel Believes in Hard Work”
This article was published in the Leicester Advertiser on Friday February 4th 1966 Continue reading “Focus on Mountsorrel”
King William IV was recognised as a Tavern or Public House (Pigot & Co Directory, 1835) Continue reading “King William IV Pub, Leicester Road, Mountsorrel”
This article about the War Memorial is taken from one written by Noel Wakeling which originally appeared in the Mountsorrel Post in 2009 Continue reading “Castle Hill War Memorial”
