Enderby

Enderby

Enderby

Nelly White recalls the school, the Bradshaw’s Store, the quarry and streets in Enderby during the 1930s and 1940s.

East Midlands Oral History Archive

EMOHA

EMOHA

1985

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Oral History

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Mrs White: I can remember when we were at the junior school, the children who lived at the, what we called the top end, which is what I described to you, near the Hall and the quarry, we had quite a way to walk. So what we used to do, we used to walk up to what was called Bradshaw’s Stores, which was half-way back home, and there we used to meet a milkman with his pony and trap – the pony was called Peggy – and he had his trap. This is when we used to get the milk straight out of the urns, you know, you didn’t have it in bottles, you had it measured out from the urn. We used to meet Mr Spence and Peggy at Bradshaw’s Stores and ride in the trap up to Hall Walk where we lived, you know, to save us walking all the way back.

Interviewer: Did they have many motor cars or was it still mainly horse drawn transport?

Mrs White: Oh, not many cars really.

Interviewer: Did people walk quite a lot?

Mrs White: Yes, yes, you used to walk or ride a bicycle, but walking mainly. You know, we were five miles from Leicester but, you know, in those days you thought nothing of walking five miles.

Interviewer: I imagine the walk was a lot nicer then, it wasn’t built up was it?

Mrs White: No, no.

J. Flawith

Nelly White

Enderby, Leicestershire