Measham, Car Auctions Ltd c.1965
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Basically a colliery village, Measham owes a small debt to businessman John Wilkes (1732-1805), who built warehouses by the canal as a distribution outlet and manufactured his own oversized bricks, known as 'Wilkes Gobs', in his local brickworks. His bricks were his reply to Government proposals to tax bricks after the costly War of American Independence in 1782. His warehouses survive, and so does part of his brickworks, and a single building from his cotton mill also survives in the car auction complex. Interestingly, the building was an outpost of cotton mills at Burton and Fazeley in Staffordshire, owned by the family of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel. The car auctions were a magnet to young drivers from miles around looking for a good bargain.
An extract from Leicestershire Villages Photographic Memories.
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