Market Harborough, Memorial Cross 1922
Photo ref: 72265
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Market Harborough's tribute to the fallen occupies pride of place in The Square, originally called the Sheep Market, which lies at the southern end of the market place. Behind the cross, Adam and Eve Street leads up to the former corsetry factory. Over the years encroachments have closed down this open space, but this may be excused by the quality of the flat-fronted Georgian buildings in the photograph.

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A Selection of Memories from Market Harborough

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 Market Harborough

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1964 and my parents announced to us kids that we were going to move to the countryside from Great Bar in Birmingham where we were all living at my grandmothers house My Father had died back when I was seven and mother had eventually remarried to a fantastic man who took on a single mother with two young children and a dream to do something better with his and therefore our lives, He was a test driver for Joseph Lucas ...see more
There are enough clues to suggest that the fair-haired boy on the left of the photograph is me. My mother, brother and myself are walking home to School Lane which is at the top of the Talbot yard (the pub on the left hand side that they are nearing).