Wigston

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Title

Wigston

Subject

Wigston

Description

Jim McClelland talks about moving to Wigston in the 1950s.

Creator

East Midlands Oral History Archive

Source

EMOHA

Publisher

EMOHA

Date

2003

Contributor

Photograph courtesy of the Greater Wigston Historical Society. To use seek permission from http://www.wigstonhistoricalsociety.co.uk/

Rights

You may use this item in accordance with the licence http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/

Format

.mp3

Type

Oral History

Duration

2min 7sec

Transcription

Mr McClelland: Well, Wigston was, it was a suburb of Leicester, but obviously it was a place where people would come out to the end of the terminus shall we say? Go for a walk along the country road between Wigston and Oadby. It was a rural area, there were no major store in the town, or the village as it was then, these came later. With the result that there was village schools as opposed to the larger schools that we have now. My children sort of grew up in a village atmosphere. Progress is such that one has got to accept that it is now just a suburb of Leicester.

Interviewer: When you came to Wigston then, did you feel that you were moving into a community in the same way as you’d moved from a community in Northern Ireland?

Mr McClelland: Yes, pretty much so, because the road that, the house that I moved into, Drury were building these houses and hence there were all new families moving into this road, and hence everybody sort of got to know one another because we were chasing builders and making sure that everything was right, so it was quite a community then. Unfortunately, as time moves on, the road that I live in now, I know about half a dozen people out of a large road, there’s not the same community spirit.

Interviewer: What do you think makes a community?

Mr McClelland: Neighbourliness. Where one can rely on one’s neighbours to have a talk, to have a chat, to discover if there’s anything that one can do in the way of assisting each other in times of trouble, or problems with children, or anything of that nature.

Interviewer

A. Smith

Interviewee

Jim McClelland

Location

Wigston

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