On this day in Loughborough … 1873
18 December 2021
18th December 1873
Sarah Gutteridge, a girl of 17 of Sutton Bonington, was fined 5/- for being drunk and incapable in North Street on 15th.
Snippets from the Loughborough Advertiser, Loughborough Herald and Loughborough Monitor. Collated by Loughborough Library Local Studies Volunteers. Source: Matthew’s Local Newspaper Extracts Vol. 1
Additional material sourced by Alison Mott.
Mr Herbert Morris plays Father Christmas
17 December 2021
‘Herbert Morris, the founder of the Empress works, used to come at Christmas time and he would throw pennies and apples and oranges to the children. He came in a big open car. He was a little man, very dark with a large moustache.’
‘The drays that brought the steel to build the cranes were drawn by cart horses. There was many an accident halfway down the bridge because they couldn’t stop the drays running on the slope. They used to come down the bridge and the brakes wouldn’t hold them. They often used to go over hedges into the fields. The horses and the carts, all the lot. The strain on them was too heavy.’
Extracts from ‘Loughborough As I Remember It (Memories of the Town before 1945.)’ (Various contributors. edited by Jean Carswell, published by Leics Libraries, 1988).
On this day in Loughborough … 1924
12 December 2021
12th December 1924
On this day in Loughborough … 1945
7 December 2021
