Month: Jun 2015

Written by jmcquaid0811

A POLICEMAN’S LOT …

A Figure of Fun? When Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan sat down to write the ‘Pirates of Penzance’, the comic aspect of the British policeman – or ‘bobby’ – as a figure of fun was to be cruelly exposed on the public stage in an effort to show off the less serious side of law enforcement in […]

Written by jmcquaid0811

MARY KIRBY – 1817-1893

The House in the Park Most people living in Melton Mowbray today remember an old house which until quite recently, stood unoccupied and rather forlorn at the side of Asfordby Road and abutting the local River Eye at the rear.  Known to locals within living memory of its later existence as ‘Six Elms’, they were […]