Alf Whitehouse was born on September 25th 1907 in Bond Lane. This account, in his own words, records his memories of growing up in the village of Mountsorrel.
Donated by Margaret Manning
Category: People
Letters from Edwin Otho Foulds
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”
Benjamin Preston
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”
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.