Anstey Memories
The End Of An Era (Boot and Shoe)
On Friday evening 31st January 1977, messrs. Burton & Stone, Cropston Road Anstey, manufacturers of children’s footwear over 52 years, closed their doors for the last time and so ended an era of boot and shoe manufacturing in Anstey since the beginning of the...
Anstey Memoir (Writer Unknown)
On a sunny August evening in 1915 my parents, brother and five-year-old self walked from Leicester to Anstey to view the house we were to rent, later to buy. Yes, ‘House to let’ signs were common then. Cottage doors stood open along the village street and women could...
Memories of Anstey Schools
Memories of school in Anstey By Brian Kibble Bradgate Road infants: I was four and a half years when I started school just as the WW2 started in September 1939 Miss Pollard was my first teacher – she had a light grey moustache and beard! – nearly all teachers were...