Before 1914

Barkby:Jennifer Baines (b.1879) recalls her childhood in the village in the 1880s.

• Full interview from the Leicester Oral History Collection. Read the EMOHA catalogue entry.

Quorn: Vena Grain (b.1895) recalls the end of the Boer War in 1902 and celebrations in the village. This interview was recorded in 1985.

• Full interview from the Leicester Oral History Collection. Read the EMOHA catalogue entry
  EMOHA · Remembering the End of the Boer War

   

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