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Evelyn Waugh Newsletter; Evelyn Waugh Studies
No full textDestroy after Reading: Selected Correspondence of Hugh Trevor-Roper and Lord Birkenhead / Jeffrey A. Manley; Waugh by Friends and Colleagues / Angus Wilson; Abstracts of Japanese Books about Evelyn Waugh, 1954-1978 / Yoshiharu Usui; Lipstick in the Romanian Army / Donat Gallagher; Evelyn Waugh: A Supplementary Checklist of Criticism / John Howard Wilso
Ann Dingsdale (nee Thomas) interview about being a student in the 1960s, recorded 2015
No full textAn interview with Ann Dingsdale (nee Thomas) recorded at the Alumni Day 2015. Hear Ann discuss studying English and History and her lecturers, living in Clare Hall, socialising with International Students Society and cultural diversity, the Rolling Stones Concert, The Arts Society, Arts Festival and Exhibitions, Activism, the Engineering Department toilets
Judith Martin interviewed by Sue Bishop, 3 July 2015
No full textJudith Martin (JM) interviewed by Sue Bishop (SB), 3 July 2015. JM discusses early childhood memories of growing up in the Spencefield Lane area. Comments on her travels to Australia, Canada, Libya and the USA as a young woman. Describes changes to local area witnessed upon her return. JM mentions rediscovering Shady Lane Arboretum after returning from her travels. Describes various areas of the arboretum- blossom trees, brook, church, golf course. Mentions enjoying watching dogs play in park, observing nature throughout the year. Recalls being introduced to Piggy's Hollow as a young girl, remembers cycling there, playing and running around. Recalls hearing about the origin of the name. Talks about the frequency of her visits, the variety of routes around the park, explains why she enjoys visiting. Interviewee talks of the changes that have taken place in park in recent years, watching the volunteers and reading the memorial plaques. JM recalls growing up in the area, meeting her friends at park on weekends and holidays, trying to ride their bikes down one side of the hollow and up the other. Comments on transition to meeting her friends at Humberstone Park and going out on Saturday nights. Describes playing around Piggy's Hollow, recalls seeing sheep and highland cattle in the fields around Shady Lane
Ghost sign for Ind Coope & Allsopp on the corner of Storer Road and George Street in Loughborough, 2015.
No full textGhost sign for Ind Coope & Allsopp. This sign displays the company name with the signature hand logo in the centre. Above this sign is the word 'Strettons' and below 'Off Licence'. To the left of this sign (not visible in this photo), there is another ghost sign, but much like the sign in the photo, it was painted over at some point before 2009. On the same building but facing George Street, there is a secondary ghost sign for Strettons and Allsopp which is available to view in our collection.
Starting with the Star Inn in Essex in 1708, Ind Coope went through several ownership changes from Ind and Smith in 1816 to Octavius and George Coope joining Edward Ind to become Ind, Coope & Co. in 1845 to the merging with Allsopp and Sons to become Ind Coope and Allsopp. By 1959, Allsopp was dropped from the title. In 1961, Ind Coope merged with Ansells and Tetley Walker to form Allied Breweries, and in 1992, Carlsberg UK merged with Allied Breweries to become Carlsberg-Tetley. Ind Coope acquired several breweries during their time and brewed a number of successful beers, such as Long Life or Double Diamond.
Stretton's Derby Brewery Ltd. was founded before 1868 but was acquired then by the Stretton brothers. The company acquired a number of other breweries, including Derby Brewery Co. Ltd., Midland Brewery Co. Ltd. and Alton & Co. Ltd. However, in 1927, Stretton's was acquired by Allsopp & Sons Ltd. with 143 public houses only to be closed in 1929 and sold to Burrow, Sturgess & Severn, mineral water manufacturers
Ghost sign for 'John Taylor & Co.' on Cobden Street in Loughborough, 2015.
No full textGhost sign for 'John Taylor & Co. / Bell Founders', also called John Taylor Bell Foundry Ltd., John Taylor & Co., Taylor's of Loughborough or Taylor's. There are two other variations of this sign available to view in our collection.
Originating in the 14th century, the Taylor family took over in 1784 and their first foundry was established in 1839, moving to its current site in 1859. In 2009, the company was bought out of administration by the consortium UK Bell Foundries Ltd., and in 2016, the directors founded the Loughborough Bellfoundry Trust which now controls the buildings, equipment, intellectual property and museum, the only one of its kind. It is one of the few Victorian purpose-built manufacturing sites still being used for its original purpose, and its campanile contains the most-pealed bells in the world. For more information, see: https://www.taylorbells.co.uk/ OR https://belltrust.co.uk
Video of a man remember his time in Leicester in the 1980s
No full textA colour video (duration 2 minutes and 1 second) of a man recalling his memories of the cultural quarter area of Leicester in the 1980s. He mentions the Leicester United Caribbean Association, Spectrum and De Montfort University. Poor sound quality, end of the video cut off, interviewer is Sarah Vallance.In the 1980s in Leicester I was stationed at De Montfort University which was then a polytechnic, and I remember, actually, writing a letter to Jack Straw when the polytechnic became a university, asking him about the so-called ‘polyversity’ development, so that’s my word, polyversity! But I was doing a course in design engineering at De Montfort. But, yes, the 80s was an extraordinary time. Because of my background and because of my student experience at university and the responsibilities I had at university, I used to come round here […] the Cultural Quarter it wasn’t called then. But I am able to remember places like the […], I am able to remember places like LUCA and another place called Spectrum. Primarily organisations that were responsible for the contemporary dynamics of Afro-Caribbeans within this country. So, because of being president of a particular society at university, I remember those places well. Yes, so the Cultural Quarter has always been part of my social goings-o
Gladys Thompson and Dennis Curtis interviewed by Sue Bishop, 21 August 2015
No full textGladys Thompson (GT) and Dennis Curtis (DC) interviewed by Sue Bishop (SB) on 21 August 2015. GT recalls visits to Shady Lane at age twelve. Talks about Shady Lane being a beauty spot before the arboretum, visited often with friend. Mentions lost her boyfriend during Second World War but spent 50 years living with her friend Elsie. Lived active life together, went on walks, baked cakes for charity, visited youth hostels. Talks about family, brother drove motor bike, sister rode bicycle. Mentions sister used to sneak off to dances. Talks about taking friends to Shady Lane and scrumping the fruit; the police came once. Recalls fetching coal for neighbours. Mentions playing tennis and cricket in many of the parks in Leicester. DC talks about watching sport on TV. Mentions visits to Piggy's Hollow with friends, went scrumping for fruit. Mentions went camping in Braunstone woods, played cricket, went to Humberstone Park
Ghost sign for A. J. White's Mother Seigel's Syrup on Ratcliffe Road in Loughborough, 2015.
No full textGhost sign for 'Seigel's Syrup / The World's Remedy for Indigestion'. The sign is severely deteriorated outside of these few words, and while the sign was likely much larger, it is not possible to decipher what else it might have said. There was also a second layer to the sign, but it is too difficult to make out. Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup was made by A. J. White, a company originally founded in New York in 1880. The company was registered in Britain in 1884, and in 1897, they took over a company of the same name, acquiring the manufacturing patents for medicines like 'Mother Seigel's Syrup'. In 1908, they advertised that 'There is no form of indigestion or biliousness that will not yield to Mother Seigel’s Syrup'. By 1956, manufacturer Smith Kline and French Labratories acquired the company
Ghost sign for the Wellington Hotel on Rutland Street, 2015.
No full textGhost sign for the Wellington Hotel with the words 'Commercial & Family' below the company's name. The sign was painted by the hotel pre-WWII. Between 1820 and 1870, the business was called The Wellington Castle. Sadly there is not much information online about this location. The hotel is now a Tesco Express with housing accommodation above
Ghost sign for English Sewing Cotton Co. Ltd. on East Park Road, 2015.
No full textGhost sign for English Sewing Cotton Co. Ltd. The sign reads: 'Thread Sales ... English Sewing...'.
This likely refers to the English Sewing Cotton Co. which was registered in 1897 after the combination of 14 different sewing firms across England, including the Leicester-based Crown Cotton Mills which was founded in 1820 by J. T. Raworth. According to the Science Museum Group, the union of the 14 firms was 'established in order to unite the principal English firms and companies engaged in the manufacture of sewing, crochet, knitting, mending and other cottons as well as subsidiary businesses engaged in cotton spinning, doubling, dyeing, bleaching and polishing'. After a series of further acquisitions and mergers, the company was renamed Tootal Ltd. before being acquired by Coats Viyella