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ASHBY PAST (Part
of the HISTORY page)
INTRODUCTION
This
page shows the history of Ashby St Mary in terms of
some of its residents, dwellings and the lifestyle from
both the distant and more recent past.
The Parish Council gratefully acknowledges all contributions
by Ashby residents and many other persons to enable
the compilation of this pictorial slice of history.
NOTE - The items on ASHBY PAST are intended to be produced
for local historical interest only. If any current resident
or family member of a current resident, or family member
of a past resident named below prefers that their name/s,
detail or an exhibit be removed, or to advise of an
error or correection, please contact the Parish Council
via the facilities available on this website.
GALLERY
This
gallery of pictures includes exhibits supplied mainly
by parish residents over the period of 9-11th July 2010.
Contributions of
any village memorabilia were
invited to be submitted and placed on public show at
a specific village occasion for the purpose.
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Ashby
in Domesday - 5 entries 1881
census details
(click
HERE
for full size doc) (click
HERE
for full size doc)
Mill
Common as depicted on a postcard (click
HERE
for larger picture)
King
Edward V11 with Royal Norfolk Regiment with Norfolk
Homeguard Stand
Lt.
Edward Gilbert, standard bearer, on right Down
Supper 16 June 1945
(click
HERE
for larger picture) (click
HERE
for larger example)
Edward's wife was
Ella Gray and with no children their
nephew Peter Gray eventually inherited Ashby
Hall
Ashby
Hall 1956, the year the Ashby
Hall 1956 Gardens,
Ashby Hall 1956
Gray family took ownership
(click
HERE
for larger picture) (click
HERE
for larger picture)
(click
HERE
for larger picture)
Ashby
Hall 1956 Gardens,
Ashby Hall 1956 Ashby
Hall, Hall Road 1956
(click
HERE
for larger picture) (click
HERE
for larger picture) (click
HERE
for larger picture)
Charlie
'Chicken' Howson
Nelson & Leslie Catchpole Leslie
Catchpole outside
& Leslie Catchpole (click
HERE
for larger picture) generator
shed, Ashby Villa
(click
HERE
for larger picture) (click
HERE
for larger picture)
Ashby Church
Fete 1964 -
Ashby Church Fete 1964 Hubert
Frost & David
Leslie Catchpole & Chris
Mrs Feek / Jack Guymer Catchpole-Ashby
Villa
Andrew - pram race entrants! (click
HERE
for larger picture) (click
HERE
for larger picture)
(click
HERE
for larger picture)
Ashby
Rectory, Church Road
Miss Child (teacher) with
Canon and
(now
known as The Beeches)
Mrs Whitmarsh in the Rectory
gardens
(click
HERE
for larger picture) (click
HERE
for larger picture)
Miss Ward (Thurton teacher) in
the Rectory gardens. Miss Ward and Miss Child taught
at Thurton School.
Miss Ward was headteacher. They both lived at Ross
Arden, Mill Road, Ashby.
The site of Ross Arden now has two bungalows, Malvas
Rosas and Jaemeen, on it.
(click HERE
for larger picture
Ashby
Villa, Chapel Road was built for Mr
& Mrs Osbourne outside Hill Top,
Mr
and Mrs Osbourne Chapel
Road
(click
HERE
for larger picture)
(click
HERE
for larger picture)
William
Catchpole's farm lorry - reg.
Billy Carver's strawberry field,
Ashby. Billy
VG 724
and
Ethel Carver lived in Mill Common.
(click
HERE
for larger picture) (click
HERE
for larger picture)
Left
- 1820 map of "an estate the property of
Mr A Marshall being in the parish of Ashby and
villages adjoining". The Marshalls lived
at Ashby Hall before the Gray family
(click
HERE
for larger example)
1882
Ordnance Survey map Section
of 1882 O.S. map
of
of all Ashby St Mary parish
Low Common, Ashby St
Mary
(click HERE
for larger example) (click
HERE
for larger example)
Sandy Lane
at its junction with Hill
Top, Chapel Road
Chapel Lane (click
HERE
for larger picture)
(click
HERE
for larger picture)
1930's - Leslie and Dorothy
Steam
engine used in threshing corn for
Catchpole, Florence Catchpole John
Pike, then of Claxton Hall. Unusally
with dog this
steam engine is fitted with rubber tyres
(click
HERE
for larger picture) (click
HERE
for larger picture)
1953 - Standard Fordson
tractor. On tractor Leslie
Catchpole's workers sprout planting
Leslie Catchpole, on binder Charlie Croxford (click
HERE
for larger picture)
(click
HERE
for larger picture)
Leslie & Dorothy Catchpole took their strawberry
Leslie Catchpole Worker's
Annual Outing
pickers and workers by coach to Felixstowe or Amongst
those in this picture are Leslie Catchpole,
Clacton every year. Amongst those waiting to Billy
Carver, Hilda McLoughlin, Ivy Thompson,
board are Bob Dack, Leslie Catchpole, Ethel Carver,
Dorothy
Catchpole, Grace Spurgeon, Maggie Potter,
Annie Jeckells, Dorothy Catchpole, Grace Spurgeon
Annie
Jeckells, Dorothy Carver, Bob Dack and
and Billy Carver. Charlie
Croxford
(click HERE
for larger picture) (click
HERE
for larger picture)
The
Cumby's house and smallholding
Letter from 1960s Young
Ron Gainsford, joining Frances
5/5A Sandy Lane. The asbestos
building resident
(click HERE
(nee
Cumby)
and Tommy Saunders with
on
the right was demolished in 1964 for
larger example) their son,
Derek
(click
HERE
for
(click
HERE
for larger picture) larger
picture)
Bob
Cumby carrying his ferrets Bob
and Gladys Cumby
(click
HERE
for larger picture) (click
HERE
for larger picture)
Early example of Hoddy
Bros business Billy
Hoddy
card (click
HERE
for larger picture)
(click
HERE
for larger picture) (click
HERE
for larger picture)
Edgar
Hoddy Edgar
and Leslie Origination
of the Hoddy family name
(click
HERE
for larger picture) Hoddy
(click HERE (click
HERE
for larger picture)
for
larger picture)
Billy
Webb, Colin Hoddy and Joe
Joe Forder and John Michael
Carr, Robin Rackham
Forder Hoddy (click
HERE
for (both
of Ashby) and Graham "Bonzo" Ellis
(click HERE
for larger picture) larger
picture)
(click
HERE
for larger picture)
Billy Bloom at Ashby
& Claxton cricket Ashby
& Claxton cricket ground from
north end
ground (Ashby Hall) - late 1940s -
Hall Road, Ashby St Mary - late 1940s
(click HERE
for larger
picture)
(click
HERE
for larger picture)
Ashby
& Claxton cricket club
practice session at Ashby
& Thurton FC - Joe High, Peter Carr, Larry
Ashby Hall - late 1940s Wintereton,
Lance Keeler, Michael Carr, Mike Owen
(click
HERE
for larger
picture) /
John Frosdick, Paul Cone, Ernie Forder, Ralph
Forder,
Mike Talbot. The football club was
formed
in the late 1960s when the playing field
was laid, before the village hall was built
(click HERE
for larger
picture)
Ursula
Pank Ronald
"Jimmy" Yallop and Billy Hoddy Margaret
Roebuck and Chris Kemp
(click
HERE
for larger
at Ashby village garden party
2007
at Ashby
village garden party 2007
picture)
(click HERE
for larger
picture)
(click HERE
for larger
picture)
Ashby Group Choir
1977 - Ashby
Rectory, Church Road -
Front: Kathy Jermy, Peggy Potter, Mary Butcher, Helping
to clean up following storm and
Jane Earl, Janette Batten, Margaret Chalcraft, Dan fire
damage in 1976. L-R Michael Thrower,
O'Callaghan. Back: David Catchpole (choirmaster), Betty
Catchpole, John Guymer, Bobby White
Daphne Sharpen, Marjorie Vincent, Marianne (standing),
Alice Handford, Richard White,
Chalcraft, Phyllis Ellis, Alison Chalcraft, Chris Arthur
Handford
Stratton, Leslie Catchpole, Trevor Catchpole, (click
HERE
for larger
picture)
Geoff Lloyd, Christopher Andrew
(click
HERE
for larger
picture)
Thurton, Ashby
& District Women's Institute c 1995/6 Down
from Wood View, The Street, Ashby
including current
Ashby resident, Betty Catchpole and Betty
Catchpole in the snow of 1987
former residents
Christine Peck and Jo Stanley (click
HERE
for larger
picture)
(click
HERE
for larger
picture)
Colin Hoddy, ex Chapel Balloon
landing in field adjacent to Profile
of David Catchpole
Road resident (Click Wood
View, The Street in
Group parish magazine
HERE
for larger
picture)
(click
HERE
for larger
picture)
(click
HERE
for larger
picture)
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submit a picture for inclusion in the Gallery, please contact
the Parish Clerk or Webmaster. Anyone offering a picture
for the Gallery does so on the condition the Parish Council may
determine whether it is included in this Gallery. |
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