A Pillar of the Local Society It continues to leave me somewhat incredulous whenever I look up the value of money historically, to compare it with the spending power of today. I am informed that £100 in Edwardian England would be equivalent to over £8,000 today. I mention this mundane fact in relation to a […]
The Story of the Webb Family of Melton Mowbray A time of Social growth At the arrival of the 20th Century in England when the long Victorian era was ready to hand over to the rule of King Edward VII, the small market town of Melton Mowbray along with the rest of the […]
William Morris Colles M.A. D.D. (1819-1899) The Revd. William Morris Colles M.A. (later to become a Doctor of Divinity – D.D.) succeeded Reverend Carr as Curate of St Mary’s Melton Mowbray in 1849 when he inherited sole charge of the living which was at the time sequestrated (i.e. not entitled to Church Revenues) as a […]
FRAMLAND HOUSE THE POWELL FAMILY By the early 1890’s, the Johnson family were out of Framland House and out of Melton Mowbray. Annie Johnson, by now leading the life of a reasonably young and clearly wealthy widow annuitant, seemed to have had her future secured with an impressive pension. Preferring life in the capital city she was […]
Deuteronomy 5:21 tells us: “You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife …” The following report appeared in a Boston, England, newspaper in 1887 KISSING ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE. At Melton Mowbray Petty Sessions on Tuesday, before Mr A. Duncan, (chairman), Major Orme, and Mr R Dalgliesh. Richard D—-, bricklayer, Asfordby was charged with assaulting Naomi M—-, […]
The Strange Story of ‘Sally’ Jesson (1777-1852) The small village of Scalford in Leicestershire lies some four miles north of Melton Mowbray, a distance I might perhaps walk on a good day, but to continue on to nearby Goadby Marwood, a further two miles and with the thought of requiring to return on foot would […]
‘VULGAR AND DISGRACEFUL’ As a filler, from my regular perusals of the old newspapers, can I offer you this short tit-bit, clipped from the Lincolnshire Chronicle of 1823 relating to a moment of ‘high apoplexy’ on the part of its exasperated Editor: who wrote … ‘We cannot but be disgusted by the blasphemy […]
‘SCALFORD. – On Saturday last the quiet little village of Salford was the scene of some excitement caused by an auction sale of the goods and wearing apparel of a noted character named Sarah Jessop, who during a long life had plodded between that village and Melton, as the ‘Scalford Mail,’ wending her weary way […]
It is some few years now since I first laid eyes on a painting which was displaying in the Carnegie museum at Melton Mowbray, a landscape produced by a man whom we would probably describe today as a part-time or amateur artist. Dated 1835, it was labelled simply; ‘Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, from the Canal’. The painting is […]
My wife loves freesias, which usually arrive in this part of the world along with the daffodils, snowdrops and other harbingers of Spring around March and April of each year. The fragrant display of a wonderful array of multi-coloured buds at the ends of their slender green,“zygomorphic”stems alongside the more common dark chromium yellow variety, […]
MELTON MOWBRAY - In My Mind. 