Houses - Tanner's Lane, Wide St., Dovecote St.,Narrow Lane

Houses - Tanner's Lane to Wide Street, Dovecote St., to Narrow Lane and Cross Street

Including recently found pictures of the Lees

• Houses in The Leys c. 1969 Number 2 looks very similar today, but numbers 4, 6, 8 & 10 are abandoned awaiting 'slum clearance'. The Baptist Chapel is in the background

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• View of Nos.2,4,6,8 & 10_The_Leys_from_Anchor_Lane_C_1969

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• Dr. Swan's Surgery door in Tanner's Lane

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• Sale of Dr. Swan's Surgery in the ate 1960s

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• 19 The Leys (Leys Farm). A Walk Round Hathern building no.27- Unoccupied and part demolished, from 11/5/2016 a grade 2 listed building

   Once a smallholding with a barn & cowsheds now demolished. Inside, old features remain. Age of house unknown but one beam is inscribed "Henry L 1668"

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• General Baptist Chapel, Anchor Lane, re-built 1880. Old Hathern In Pictures (page 26) and A Walk Round Hathern building 28

  The original Chapel of 1840 was rebuilt in 1880.Names on foundation stones Names of founders on front are Joseph Tollington Dec 3 1879, B.Baldwin Loughborough 1879,Mr. Wilde 1879 and F.Fuller 1879 Note part of an old building to right which is on several maps including the Enclosure Map of 1778 

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• 1960s view of an old house in Tanner's Lane, originally 3, later 2 dwellings. One served as the Surgery of Dr. Swan. A Walk Round Hathern number 29

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• May Farm and Tanners Lane. Believed to be a farm from the early 1800s. Farming ceased around 1965 and the land was sold for housing. A Walk Round Hathern house 30

  On the left of picture is Tanners Lane, on the right are houses built by Samuel Price Smith in "The Tanyard"

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• An aerial view of May Farm and surrounds, including Dr. Swan's old surgery (white building centre right).

  The home of Bill  & Sylvia Parker (you can see his Ford Zephyr). In the foreground is the Methodist Chapel and the next door cottage of Esther Brown, its caretaker.

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• Roger Eamons investigating his ground floor fireplace, Tanner's Lane

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• Mrs Rose Spencer in a Tanners Lane garden. Behind her you can see a rare view of "Rookery Row" with stockiner's third floor windows.

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• Henson's or Cowperthwaite's? shop and Tea Rooms on the Round Bank, still thatched in 1948. The "W" sign points towards the nearest A.R.P. (Air Raid Precautions) Warden's Post. Old Hathern in Pictures page 29

  Once 3 then 2 cottages by the1890s, see Hathern Remembered page 102. The TV aerial was installed by Neville Ball, said to have received some of the first TV transmissions in Hathern

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• Shop and Tea Rooms on Round Bank being demolished

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• Shop on the Round Bank, Tagline in newspaper article was "CONTRAST !" because of the old cottage with a new-fangled TV aerial.

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• Villagers on the "Round Bank" in Wide Street by the gate to Mrs. J. Exon's smallholding in 1920. From Loughborough Monitor October 1st 1976

  Note the row of old houses leading off Wide Street, demolished for the building of the modern telephone exchange

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• The grassed area on the left is the Round Bank at the top of Wide Street. c. 1907-1917. Hathern Remembered page 106 and A Walk Round Hathern 20

  Men are sitting on the circular bench round the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubillee tree (1897). Note the low level bungalow or house far left that has replaced the previous row of  thatched cottages

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• William Dutton, butcher, in the 1900's outside his house on the 'Round Bank', Wide Street, (later home to the Saunders family). Dutton's slaughterhouse is on the right.

  In the 1911 Census (see 'Residence' on this site) William, butcher on own account and wife Lizzie have three children at school, aged 12, 10 & 6 and share the house with William's brother and sister. 

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• Looking down Wide Street from under the leaves of the Jubilee Tree.

  Through a gap to the right of the white-washed houses can be seen part of the row of houses that extended back from the street behind Ernie Rossell's blacksmiths shop on what was once called Cumberland's Lane, now the site of Old Forge Close

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• Anchor Inn. 1890-1910. Hathern Remembered page 73 Maybe the 2nd and 4th chimneys (going north) are of building (oast house) behind Anchor ?

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• Round Bank looking down Wide Street. Old Hathern in Pictures page 10

  The Jubilee Tree on right was planted to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. A newspaper article of 1898 suggested it had died and was presumably replaced

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• Greengrocer Mr. Thurman from Loughborough on one of his regular visits 1907. Round Bank, Wide Street. Old Hathern In Pictures page 33

  Lady on right is Mrs. Pollard

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• The Round Bank and houses in Wide Street

  Behind is garden wall in front of Mrs. Exon's house now demolished but the footprint of the old house can be seen in the front garden. Mrs. Exon ran a transport service

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• From Round bank, view down Wide Street. Note the old house with thatched roof on the left now replaced. Horse and cart is probably Mrs. J. Exon.

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• Round Bank, Wide Street, popular meeting place. Further Pictures of old Hathern page 16

  Jubilee tree on right is in its early years. it was planted in 1897-8 following Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Note the road goes either side of the tree. Wm Rossell father, the village blacksmith made the origunal Jubilee seat

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• Wide street with entrance to Anchor Lane on the right. The roof on far left in the distance is the Co-op. The horse and dray are probably delivering coal. Further Pictures of old Hathern page 15

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• Wide Street looking uphill with Stone House in middle distance.Old Hathern In Pictures page 11

  Stone House was one of the village farmhouses, and the home of the Harriman family. Later it was used as the base for the Goodacre transport business

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• Stone House, Wide Street. Grade II Listed building endowed by Christ's college Cambridge and Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII. A Walk Round Hathern number 35

  Christ College still holds the deeds from 1502. Local tradition is that John Heathcoat lived here being married to the sister of his then business partner Samuel Caldwell, from Hathern

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• Stone House, Wide Street

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• Stone House, Wide Street before WW1. Possibly the oldest house in the village, parts dating back to the C14th.Further Picture of Old Hathern page 14

  This was a farm until the 1920s, worked by the Harriman family. Shown outside are Miss Harriman and Mrs. Hood

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• Wide Street house built in 1838 by Isaac Vickers, enlarged later to make room for a shop and a bakehouse. A Walk Round Hathern Building 34

  In 1904 it becoming the Co-op butcher's shop, closing in the 1970s

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• Ernie Rossell's house in Wide Street

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• Georgian house in Wide Street. A Walk Round Hathern building 3

  Built in about 1750. Building to rear has served as a stable, a coach house and a slaughterhouse. Former residents include Ernie Rossell, blacksmith. Hence the name of the adjacent Forge Close

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• Side view of house in Wide Street. Ernie Rossell lived here. Barn is alongside. From pic provided by past resident

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• Blacksmith's house, Wide Street

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• Ernest and James Rossell in Wide Street. Their blacksmith's shop is on the left

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• Children in Wide Street May 28th 1913. From Henton Collection No.304

  Jutting out behind half-timbered house on the right is the blacksmith's forge, and behind that the low roof of Ernie Rossell's bike repair shop. Chimneys in background are of Ernie Rossell's house and the butcher's shop. On left hand side, the trees are in the Co-op orchard where Algie Miller kept his fowls (egg farm)

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• Charles Draycott at bottom of Wide Street. Old Hathern In Pictures page 12

  Thatched cottage, front right, was demolished after WW2 to allow Anchor Lane to be widened for housing. Entrance to Elms is in distance

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• Herbert Allen, Manager, outside Co-op stores Wide Street built 1878. Further Pictures of Old Hathern page 18 and Hathern at War page 10. Founded 1878, closed 1976. See article 'The origins of Hathern Co-operative Society'

  The small cottage on the left was enlarged in 1894 to become the Co-op bakery. 

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• The Old Bakehouse, Wide Street. A Walk Round Hathern Building 31. The left hand side and upper story were added to the original building c.1900 to form the bakery

  Using its own coke-fired oven, villagers would also bring in cakes etc. to be baked for a small charge. The bakehouse closed in 1950 and the Spencer family started an independent bakery on the main road which is still thriving

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• The Elms at the junction of Wide St. and Dovecote St., home of the Ashton family for many years. Old Hathern in Pictures page 13 and A Walk Round Hathern building 36

  This estate of 7 acres and 2 other plots formed the basis of a thriving poultry farm. The associated barn on Dovecote Street was sold in 1981. Information from a Mr. S. Smith says it was built in 1760

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• The Elms Poultry Farm. Hathern Remembered page 71. Rookery Row can be seen in top right. Probably c.1965

  Charles Ashton and his wife Elana moved to the Elms in 1920 and the estate consisted of 7 acres of land. His poultry business here and elsewhere thrived and his favourite breed was the White Leghorn

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• The Elms Poultry Farm from another angle.Hathern Remembered page 71

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• Lovely old cottage in Dovecote St, owned by Henry Smith and wife Mary (Frank Savage was their nephew). Where bottom of Old Way is now. Further Pictures of Old Hathern page 9

  This had a large orchard and was demolished, along with adjoining cottages, in about 1948

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• Dovecote Street barn formerly belonging to Elms Farm

  Now 2 semi-detached residences. Has been used for a variety of purposes including a poultry shed, motor house, pigsties and stables. Building left of barn now demolished

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• View from back of The Barn in Dovecote Street

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• The Barn, Dovecote Street. A Walk Round Hathern building 37

  C17th grade II listed. Around 1916, a basket maker lived on the site, making his wares from the rods that he cut from osiers (willow) growing by the River Soar

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• Dovecote Street house thought to have been built in the 1560s. A Walk Round Hathern building 38

  A few years ago a pile of newsppaers in the house were found referring to the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)

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• Aerial view including Dales farm, Hollytree Cottage, Victoria Terrace, The Manor House, Cross and School

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• Wesleyan Chapel, now the Village Hall. Old Hathern In Pictures page 27 and A Walk Round Hathern building 39

  Built in 1864 and used as a chapel for 76 years, closing at start of WW2. During the war it was used for storage and was then converted to a Village Hall. 2 ladies are Elizabeth Gamble and Mary Price.  Mrs.Price had previously kept a sweetshop in one of the adjoining cottages

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• Hathern Club, Dovecote Street. A Walk Round Hathern Building 40

  Built in 1881 as a private house and acquired by the Hathern Liberal Club Company 5 years later for £275 "a place of resort for Liberals" - members could not sell their shares to Conservatives. In 1977 the "Liberal" tag was dropped.

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• Meadow farmhouse, Dovecote Street. A Walk Round Hathern building 45

  Built c.1800, this was until 1969 on of the working farms. Its farmland was accessed by a gate at the end of Gladstone Street. Sold 1970 at the Anchor Inn in 5 lots totalling 39 acres. The farmhouse was converted into flats in 1971

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• Dovecote Street. This terrace first appears on the 1884 OS map. Dovecote Street then extended up to the main road, (now Wide Lane). This terrace was not on the 1824 Rates map

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• Dales Farm, a grade II listed building built c.1750. A Walk Round Hathern building 43

  The farm was worked for many years by the Russell family who provided milk to the village, in churns carried by a handcart which was measured out to customers by jugs. Now a private residence

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• Dales Farm.George Groves was the farmer in the late C19th. He died in 1898 and in 1911 Frederick, once a servant on the farm, and wife Mary Ann are the occupiers(but not freeholders).

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• Dales Farm winter scene. A separate article tells the history of the farm

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• The Manor House, Narrow Lane, a grade II listed building, dating at least from the C18th. A Walk Round Hathern number 4

  Once in the hands of the March Phillipps de Lisle family, until sold to Joseph Widdowson in 1879

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• Timber-framed and thatched house at bottom of Narrow Lane

  Known as the Manor House, it is one of the oldest houses in Hathern. Further Pictures of Old Hathern (page 8

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• Manor House Narrow Lane. From Records Office

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• 1972 photo of The Manor House, Narrow Lane. from Leicester Records Office Early C18th wing is on left

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• Victoria Terrace, built 1880, at the bottom of Narrow Lane, with its well-remembered Monkey Puzzle tree. The property in the distance is Yeoman's House. Old Hathern in Pictures page 13

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• Hollytree Cottages, children in Narrow Lane May 28th 1913. A Walk Round Hathern building 45. From Henton Collection

  This grade II listed house was created from 3 cottages in the 1990s. On an oak lintel is inscribed "AC 1666

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• Narrow Lane. These were considered to be the better quality houses of the late C19th. Further Pictures of Old Hathern page 7

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• Lizzie Upton in front of house in Narrow Lane. Further Pictures of Old Hathern page 6

  "Granny Watts" in front of her house in Narrow Lane. She was in service at the Elms and married William Watts. She was a formidable character and died in the 1950's, aged 96

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• Former stockinger's shop, Narrow Lane. A Walk Round Hathern building 46

  In the rear garden of Hollytree Cottages (No. 34) just visible from the road, a good example of the shops once found all over the village. Those remaining are mostly hidden from view.

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• Cross Stores

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• School House c. 1969. Now the Dispensary on Cross St..

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