Other businesses and farming

Work - farming and businesses

Farming, shops, bakery and...chip van

• S.H. Tollington's apiary 1901.Sam, a tobacconist, lived in Victoria Terrace. Other Tollingtons lived in Gladstone Street and the Green.

  Sam in middle, to left his mum who "manages the honey department" and to right his uncle who occasionally wields the smoker but prefers to keep at a distance from the bees"  

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• Harvesting in early September 1939. From Leicester Mercury - 'Pictures of peaceful pursuits'

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• Poultry farm business at Elms Farm. Full contents are shown in article 'Hathern's poultry farms'.Run by Richard Maurice Benton Snr who had been in hosiery then landlord of the Dewdrop from 1906 to 1918 when his son also Richard Maurice ironmonger at Keetl

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• Richard Maurice Benton senior with his hens at Hillside Poultry Farm first used in 1918. Wall of Fuller and Hambley factory behind. Hathern Remembered page 70. In 1939 Richard, now a widow, lived at 34 Loughborough Road with son (also Richard Maurice) and

  In 1939 Richard, now a widow, lived at 34 Loughborough Road with son (also Richard Maurice) and daughter-in-law Clarissa and their schoolboy son Maurice later to marry Barbera

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• Charles J Ashton and staff of Elms egg farm

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• The Elms egg farm, now Swallow Walk and Nightingale Avenue. Further Pictures of Old Hathern page 17

  Charles Ashton who lived in The Elms house was a pecialist in light breeds of poultry and after his death, the business was run by his son Ralph

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• Chickens at Richard Benton senior on main road next to Dewdrop. Harriman House top right.

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• T & F Keightley, Ironmongers of Loughborough. From Benton collection - looks like R.M. Benton junior on right in front of car

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• Haymaking in the early 1900s. Hathern Remembered page 6

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• Horse providing power for heavy farm work

  Hathern Remembered (page 68)

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• John Draycott and George Roper, lifetime companions. Old Hathern in Pictures page 51

  In 1915, when labour was scarce, these old men scythed this large field and took the corn by horse and wagon to stack it at The Lodge, home to John

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• John and George again, with that stack. Old Hathern in Pictures page 51

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• John and George again, with that stack. Old Hathern in Pictures page 51

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• Stints Farm

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• Threshing machine next to barn in Stints Farm, opposite 3 Crowns, on place where front car park is now. Old Hathern in Pictures page 48

  Next door is house that preceded the Police House of the early 1900s 

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• Joe and sister Mavis Gamble at greengrocer van that replaced horse and cart in 1967. Old Hathern In Pictures page 34

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• Mr Len Webster - farmworker, philosopher

  Farmworker from Church street working at Porter's farm, Dishley since 1927. From newspaper article. Shown sorting and loading the 500 tons of potatoes that had been clamped down for the winter beside the Derby Road

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• A typical scene in fields round Hathern before the war. Hathern at War page 12

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• Stan Last of The Lodge bringing in the cows in field below the Moors. Old Hathern in Pictures page 49

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• Cows walking from Pasture Lane to farm to be milked. A daily sight in the 1950s.Hathern at War page 108

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• Daily milk round, Arnold Price and Laurie Groves.A Look back at Old Hathern (page 4)

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• Milkman. John Baxter

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• Mrs. J. Exon who ran a smallholding from 12 Wide Street

  She also ran a horse and carriage service to Loughborough on market days and to The Dog and Duck Hotel at Shardlow to trade with the bargees

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• John Draycott of Garendon Lodge with his prize cow at Southfields Park, Loughborough. Further Pictures of Old Hathern page 76

  Mr. Draycott was well known at shows in Leics and Debyshirwe in the early 1900s. This cow was only beaten once, and then only into 2nd place

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• Herman Gamble started his greengrocer business in 1933. Herman junior is shown with the cart before the war

  Old Hathern In Pictures (page 34)

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• New estate on farmland in mid-1960s now St Peter's Avenue, Nightingale Avenue etc.

  Arthur Spence, in charge of security, is sitting on the right. Standing are William (Paddy) Hunt, Clarence Tollington and Harry Berrington

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• Photo by Arthur Smith. From Benton collection. Maybe customers of Dewdrop

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• Advertisement for Arthur Smith, photographer from Wide Street Hathern. On back of photo of two drinkers.

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• Peter Van Houten's steam car 195

  This coal-fired steam driven car was built over 3 years by Peter Van Houten, then of The Leys. He had put a 1909 Stanley steam car engine (built in America 1909) in an old car chassis. It can cruise comfortably at 30 mph and Peter prefers to have a friend with him to act as stoker. A cwt of coal will drive the car up to 70 miles

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• Peter Van Houten at wheel of his steam-driven car 1955

  The engine is mounted over the back axle and no gear lever or clutch is required. The boiler is under the bonnet and the firebox doors are just in front of the 2 front seats. A coal bunker is cunningly concealed under the bonnet on the nearside accessible from the passenger seat

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• Fred Farrand's coal truck outside his house which downstairs was the Co-op butcher. In Wide Street

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• Rev. Doble and students at his international college in the Rectory

  Students in 1949 are the Emperor of Abyssinia's grandson, the son of a Prime Minister (advisor to the Aga Khan) and the son of a tribal chieftain in Iraq.

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• Skinner's Bakery, Loughborough

  From F. Spencer (Fred on left)

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• Co-op bakery

  H.E. Spencer baker at Co-op

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• Blacksmith's shop in Wide Street. Farm horses were shod, farming implements sharpened, domestic appliances repaired and cycles rebuilt.Old Hathern in Pictures page 45

  The last blacksmith was Ernest (Ernie) Rossell who retired in 1960.From left : Mr. Charles (Lay Preacher), Wilfred Gamble, Ernie, Mr.Hall (thatcher), James Rossell, Mrs. Rossell, Mrs. Fuller

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• Ernest and James Rossell. Blacksmith's shop in background. Old Hathern in Pictures page 45

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• From Benton collection, opposite Dewdrop

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• Another from Benton collection - also opposite Dewdrop

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• Gee's fish and chip van, a common sight on Friday night in the 1950s. Hathern Remembered page 61

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• Details to be added

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• Willy Henson's Garage, later the Jet Station. Established in 1920s/1930s selling petrol first from cans then from pumps. Hathern Remembered page 62 and Old Hathern in Pictures page 44

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• Advertisement for Henson's Garage at top of Wide Lane (post Brexit ?)

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• Lorry fleet from J.Goodacre and Co. Wide Street. Hathern Remembered page 65

  Goodacres have operated from here since 1929m but before that have operated in Hathern, Zouch and surrounding villages since the start of the C20th with canal barges, carts and drays, lorries, buses and taxis. Their first Ford T model lorry was delivered in 1922 with registration NR 543.

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• Co-op store

  Staff from left : Arnold Bramley (later to die in WW1), Herbert Allen with his wife and sons Len and Ray, and Bill Branson. From Old Hathern in Pictures page 31

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• Dalgano's in Narrow Lane 1931

  The Dalgarnos manufactured and bottled their goods on the premises for sale at local markets to which they travelled by tandem

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• Mrs. Randon's General Store. A Look Back at Hathern page 10 and A Walk Round Hathern building 42

  Grandaughter Freda Cooper is pictured. Shop. later known as Cooper's.Also on the right was cycle repair shop of Mrs. Randon's son, Arthur Smith. Shop was also once a Post Office and is now a hairdressers.In 1824 occupied by Henry Spittle

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• The Notion Shop. A weekly visitor to Hathern in the early 1900s. Further Pictures of Old Hathern page 12

  Mr. Charles Flintoff, owner of the business, is standing in centre picture. The business sold household goods, clothing and everything needed for mending and sewing. He had the reputation of being a kind and Christian man and was a preacher at the Wesleyan Chapel

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• Gardenia Tea Rooms. At bottom of Shepshed Road at the side of the Derby Road. From article in Hathern Remembered page 57

  Set up by and run by James Fisher and wife Evelyn Tollington in 1927, these sold, amongst other things, fish and chips and provided catering for local events. The land was sold in 1938 to the Ministry of Transport for road widening

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• Mr. Fred Bowley ouside his shop on Loughborough Rd. about 1930. Hathern Remembered page 101

  Later this was run by Mrs. Fuller and then Muriel Bennett and was closed in the late 1980s

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• Same shop in1986. Hathern Remembered page 101

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