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Leicester's Health Statistics in 1957
Selected pages from 'The Health of Leicester in 1957'.
Lesson a day in English for Dale's young Indians
An article on Indians and West Indians in school. From the Leicester Evening Mail, 11th October 1961.
Lower Grove Street location on map
A section of a Google map view of Leicester showing where slum housing used to be.
Lower Grove Street on 19th C map
A small section of the 1885 OS map of Leicester highlighting slum housing
Malcolm Mason talks about starting work.
Malcolm Mason explains the limited options for most people leaving school in the 1950s.
Map of Leicester c.1938
A photo of a Geographia street map of Leicester c.1938 that has been mounted on card and has First Aid Posts, First Aid Party Depots, and Ambulance Garages added by hand.
Margaret Rud talks about working in a wool factory, the hosiery industry and knitting work in Leicestershire in 1952.
Margaret Rud talked about the work she performed in the Fielding & Johnston wool factory. Commuted by train everyday to Leicester, as well as discussing working hours and wages, Later worked in hosiery factory and explains work culture as well as…
Maternity and Midwives
An audio clip featuring different speakers talking about maternity provision in Leicester in the 1930s.
Memories of a Civil Defence Interview
June Dawson recalls an accident when a Civil Defence recruiter visited her husband.
Memories of council housing at Eyres Monsell, leicester
Dorothy Oliver and Brenda & Ron Brewster talks about moving into council housing on the Eyres Monsell estate in the 1950s.