Leicestershire Collection

Pork Pie Shop 1960S
Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe, renowned for its Melton Mowbray pork pies, named after the town of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England

The Melton Breakfast by Sir Francis Grant
A rare mezzotint of High Leicestershire Lights of the past enjoying breakfast before a hunt. From left to right are Massey Stanley, the Earl of Wilton, Count Matuszevic, Lord Gardner

England / Belvoir Castle
BELVOIR CASTLE, LEICESTERSHIRE View of the south front of Belvoir Castle

Buddon Wood, Mountsorrel, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of the granite (or syenite) district viewed from Swithland Old Slate Quarry, including Buddon Wood, Mountsorrel, Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Leicestershire

Oakham, Rutland / Leicestershire
The market cross at Oakham, formerly in the county of Rutland but now in Leicestershire

Pynes House, Exeter, Devon, 1825
Pynes House, Exeter, Devon, the seat of Sir Stafford Henry Northcote 1792-1850. Queen Anne style red brick house with slate roof and four brick chimney stacks built by architect Inigo Jones

Loughborough - Bell-ringing - World Record Change-ringers
Bellringing - World Record Change-ringers - who produced a peal of 18, 027 Stedman Caters - rung in 12 hours and 18 minutes at All Saints, Loughborough on Easter Monday - 12th April, 1909

Buddon Wood, Kinchley Hill, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire
Sketch of the Swithland area of Leicestershire, looking north-east towards Buddon Wood, Kinchley Hill and Mountsorrel, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Swithland Hall, Church and Rectory, Leicestershire
Sketch of Swithland Hall, St Leonards Church and Rectory, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Duchess of York at Training Hostel, Market Harborough
Duchess of York at a Training Hostel, Market Harborough, Leicestershire - part os a scheme fostered jointly by the Imperial

Far Street, Wymeswold, Leicestershire
Far Street, Wymeswold, Loughborough, near Rempstone, Leicestershire, England. Showing the Three Crowns Public House Date: 1910s

Leicester Union Cottage Homes, Countesthorpe, Leics
Three small inmates stand in front of a water tower at the Leicester Union cottage homes at Countesthorpe, Leicestershire

Union workhouse, Market Harborough, Leicestershire
The Market Harborough Union workhouse. The inscription on the pediment reads HARBOROUGH UNION WORKHOUSE 1836. At the doorway stands a man and a woman, presumably the master and matron

St Matthews Church, Normanton, Rutland Water
Fishermen in a boat near St Matthews Church, Normanton, Rutland Water. The Classical-style Grade 2 Listed Building is now de-consecrated. First Published The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Between Red Mile and Belvoir, with Belvoir Castle
View of the countryside between Red Mile and Belvoir, with Belvoir Castle in the distance, an area popular with the Belvoir Hunt, Leicestershire. Date: 1936

Bradgate Park, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire ?
Bradgate Park, Newtown Linford, near Leicester, Leicestershire ?, England. Showing the ruins Date: 1910s

Plan of Bosworth Field, Battle of Bosworth, near Leicester, 22 August 1485, towards the end of the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). Date: 1485

Station Street, Earl Shilton, Leicestershire
Station Street, Earl Shilton, Leicester, near Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. Date: 1950s

HURRY! SLOWLY
Hurry! Slowly! This curiously worded signpost is to be seen by the roadside near Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Leicestershire, England. It warns of a open Level Crossing Date: 1950s

Sports Day at Countesthorpe Homes, Leicestershire
A group of boys, including some uniformed band members, at the Countesthorpe cottage homes in Leicestershire on their sports day in 1919

J H King - Cricketer
John H King - left-handed cricketer for Leicestershire and England, making his debut for his country in 1909

A Fat Long-Horned Ox
Bred and fatted at Dickley Farm in Leicestershire by Mr Honyborn, Successor to the late celebrated Mr Bakewell

Sutton Ambion, Atherstone Hunt area, Leicestershire
View of Sutton Ambion, Leicestershire, in the Atherstone Hunt area, with a hunt in progress. Date: 1936

The Village, Knipton, Grantham, England
The Village, Knipton, Grantham, Leicestershire, England. Date: 1906

High Street, Uppingham, England
High Street, Uppingham, near Corby/Stamford, Leicestershire, England. Showing the Crown Inn. Date: 1910

Granite Quarries, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire
Sketch of Granite Quarries, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, viewed from the rocks near Buddon Wood, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Markfield, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of Markfield, Swithland, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of quarrying (probably granite) at Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Swithland, Leicestershire, with granite and slate quarries
Sketch of the Swithland area of Leicestershire, with granite at the top of Kinchley Hill, a small quarry to the right, Buddon Wood (granite) to the right, and Charnwood Forest (slate) to the left

Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of granite rocks at Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Swithland, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Precambrian volcano
An impression by Micahael Copus of Precambrian (4, 500 to 544 million years ago) bomb-rock volcano in Leicestershire, England

Leicester - Forest Road Signal Box in 1903

Leicestershire County Football Team, 1895

Haymaking in Hoby, Leicestershire, early 1900s

Archaeological dig near Wartnaby, Leicestershire, possibly in the 1930s

Archaeological dig, Wartnaby, Leicestershire

Melton Mowbray Thorpe End early 1900s

Melton Mowbray Cheapside probably 1940s

Market Harborough early1900s

Coalville High Street early 1900s

Ashby-de-la-Zouch Burton Road early 1900s

Loughborough Market Place early 1900s

Ashby-de-la-Zouch Midland Railway Station early 1900s

Kegworth Mill Lane early 1900s

Kegworth Market Place early 1900s

Market Harborough Foxton Locks early 1900s

Clock Tower Leicester Edwardian period

1840s Victorian Map Of Leicestershire Vintage
1840s, Victorian, Map, of, Leicestershire, Vintage, Lantern, Slide, Leicester, Lutterworth, Market, Harborough, Bosworth, Ashby, de, la, Zouch, Hinckley, Charnwood, Forest, England, Edwardian, early

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