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24 May 2021 -
Summer Adventures

Posted in MEMORIES FROM NORMAN
Written by Jules
May 24, 2021, 10:51 AM
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Summer Adventures:

In those days of yesteryear, every day of those August school holidays seemed to be filled with long hours of adventure & golden sunshine. The fresh clean scent of grass & hay along with the muted sounds of bees, wasps and other insects, were not drowned out or the scent quashed as they are today by the noise & exhaust fumes of motor cars as they pollute the air we breathe.
Another memory I have is of a gang of little boys, the eldest no more than 10 years, like the pioneers of old, setting off in search of adventure! The only supplies we carried was a round of bread & marge wrapped in old newspaper which gave the bread a taste all of its own. One of us would be carrying a bottle of tap water that was quickly consumed by little boys who were always parched. So, a start was made, drinking & sipping before we had even left the street. In the afternoon heat we swung, or rather swaggered, along the rough cart track lanes that were edged with dense thickets & spinneys on either side, each having a scent of its own and adding to the rustic scenes of ‘ago’.



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02 May 2021 -
1 Morton Road, Leicester

Written by Jules
May 02, 2021, 02:22 PM
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1 Morton Road, Leicester

Our next house was also a terrace; an end of terrace the same as the one we’d just left. It also had a small front garden although nothing ever grew there, three bedrooms and the usual ‘out offices’, which meant going outside to sit on the lavvy in the cold weather. This took a lot of courage unless you wanted to be chronically constipated. The back garden was quite long and enclosed on three sides.
On one side lived Liz and Den, the other side was the railway embankment and at the bottom of the garden was the dilapidated rough brick side of a local butcher’s slaughterhouse. The new area was poorer and the houses older but in a sense the move was an improvement. The neighbours were the salt of the earth; really caring and compassionate people. That slaughterhouse was the only real drawback; the squeals and screams of the animals, especially the pigs as they were driven in to be slaughtered, was heart rending.



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25 Apr 2021 -
Victoria Road East (now demolished)

Written by Jules
Apr 25, 2021, 11:05 AM
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Victoria Road East (now demolished)
So, my aunt and uncle took us in, but they lived in a council house so our presence was kept quiet. We had to find somewhere else to live before they sailed to Australia. How long we were with them, I do not know, but Mam was still working and dashing around trying to find us somewhere to live, or rather rent. Not many working class families without a father, with no furniture, five children and no references were welcome at estate agents offices!
How she did it I don’t know to this day but my next memory (and it was like regaining consciousness after a long, nightmarish sleep) was of going into a dark, damp, evil smelling hallway, with old whitewash flaking from the ceiling and silver slug trails over the broken brick tiles that oozed moisture as we gazed around. The living room wasn’t quite so bad but the horror was the kitchen! Great chunks of plaster were hanging off over the shallow and filthy sink. The one tap dripped non-stop and fungus grew on all the damp spots…….. but the highlight piece was the old gas stove!
It was red with rust from the damp, the top burners were in several small bits and the oven was lined with old newspaper on which were deposited small heaps of cat turds. We could easily tell from the smell where the moggies peed!
After being used to electric light we now found we were back to smelly gas mantles. We’d got lucky in renting the place simply because no-one else would take it on. We now had a roof over our heads, but what a roof!



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19 Apr 2021 -
The Blitz in Highfields

Written by lesmond
Apr 19, 2021, 12:04 PM
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Blitz Night


Leicester’s worst night of Second World War bombing was around Highfields in November 1940. 108 people died in the City, on this ‘Blitz Night’. On 19 November, at 10.40pm, three large bombs fell on the crossroads of Sparkenhoe, Saxby and Stoughton Streets. Saxby Street Methodist Church received a direct hit. Luckily 40 people in the Wesleyan Chapel schoolrooms next door (now Sparkenhoe Primary School) only had minor injuries. At 56 and 58 Saxby Street, six people died.

St Peter's Church on St Peter's Road was badly damaged during the bombing. The West windows were blown out and the church roof was badly damaged. There's still damage that is visible; holes in the stonework of the West door show shrapnel damage created on the night of the bombing.


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