by alhsadmin | Jul 16, 2025 | History
Bradgate Road – circa 1950 The photograph is looking down Bradgate Road to The Nook.In the distance, on the left is the Methodist Church that was demolished in 1973.The ‘roundabout’ in The Nook has a fence around it and is not completely round as today.There are...
by alhsadmin | Jul 16, 2025 | History
Anstey Barrow Race In 1958, Albert Selby, the landlord at The Coach and Horses public house, suggested to a group of friends that a wheelbarrow race around Anstey might be fun, raise Anstey’s profile and raise money for charity at the same time. It was decided to hold...
by alhsadmin | Jul 16, 2025 | History
Airborne Shoes – 1960 One day, in the early 1900s, two men, Frederick Pollard and Fred Wain, were both locked out of the shoe factory where they both worked for being a few minutes late. They vowed it would never happen again and decided to establish their own...
by alhsadmin | Jul 9, 2025 | History
Bradgate Road School – circa 1888 The children in the photo are half timers. Although the 1878 Factory Act prohibited children under 10 to work in factories, it stated that 10- to 13-year-olds could work as long as they attended school for 1 session a day. This...
by alhsadmin | Jul 9, 2025 | History
The Nook – circa 1908 The Nook originally joined Anstey’s two main roads; Main Street, now Bradgate Road, and Cropstone Road, now Cropston Road. The 1761 enclosure map of Anstey shows a small structure marked in the centre of the Nook and labelled “Stamford”,...
