Leigh, The Village 1906
Photo ref:
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Photo ref:
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Another iron-making village, situated on a tributary of the River Mole, Leigh (pronounced 'Lye') is centred on this demure, triangular village green with its covered pump. The weatherboarded Plough Inn in the background, which occupies part of the north side of the green, is in part of 14th-or 15th-century construction, but mainly 18th-century.
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A Selection of Memories from Leigh
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Leigh
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I wonder where my class mates from Leigh school are now (ie the Years from 1940 to 1946) Ken Hatton ,John Beadle
May Botting Judy Behag, Margaret Harrinton, Mildred and Audrey Everest John Couling Eileen Huggett and John Hugget.
In the Leigh Surrey Website headed "History from Parishioners" is a photo of the Forge, Leigh taken around 1900.
The people in the picture from right to left are; In the doorway Mr Frank Flint who later ran the Petrol station Mr George Flint the village blacksmith who was badly kicked by a shire horse and died of these injuries several months later on Christmas Eve 1909. Mr Salmon who worked for ...see more
The last name on the World War 1 memorial in Leigh Church is Rifleman William Winkworth.
Mr Winkworth from Ashford in Kent was for a time a baker at Dawes Green ,Leigh. He married Bessie Lemmon and for a while just before WW1 lived in the Old Shepherds Cottage, Tapners Road Leigh. Mr Winkworths name also appears on the Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium
After his sad death ...see more
My sister and I used to spend every summer in Leigh, so much so that we even attended the School. I think it helped that our granny was Mrs Faulkner (Dorothy)the Infant school teacher. Grampy was Sandy, our mum Jean was born and brought up in or very near Leigh. Till she met dad, they married at Leigh church and moved to London. Granny retired in 1965 and they moved to Yorkshire with us, then on to Nottingham with ...see more
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