Leicestershire Villages

EMOHA material on the Leicestershire Villages website

For the last few years EMOHA has been adding short oral history clips from the Archive to village pages on the Leicestershire Villages website. Thanks to Leicestershire Villages we have been able to create a large resource of sound clips dealing with a variety of rural events and issues.

The links below take you to the oral history pages of some of the villages on the Leicestershire Villages website. This is by no means all the audio visual material on that website but it should be enough to convince even the most ardent urbanite that there is life outside the city walls!

Please note that since these links were created the Leicestershire Villages website has been redesigned. Some links still work, others take you to a generic oral history page and you will have to navigate to the village oral history page from there.

World War II Barwell – Unexploded bomb Frolesworth - Farming Hungarton - Farming Lutterworth - Munitions factory Oadby – Americans, blackout, crime Stanton Under Bardon – Dancing, fights, Canadians	Health Blaby – Medicine Ibstock – Local doctor anecdote South Wigston – Tuberculosis Waltham on the Wolds – Attitude to abortion Wymeswold - Diptheria	Pre-1914 Barkby & Barkby Thorpe – Victorian childhood Quorn – End of Boer War, moving house.

Gentry Bardon – the Everards Hungarton – the Nuttings and Lady Burnaby Swithland – Lord Lanesborough Woodhouse Eaves – Lady Herrick	Events Croft – Floods Dunton Bassett – General Strike Hungarton – Christmas, coming of electricity & gas, Quorn Hunt Ibstock – End of gas lamps Wymeswold – Floods, Quorn Hunt	School Blaby – Poverty Castle Donington – problems being left handed Countesthorpe – Children’s home Newton Burgoland – General memories Stanton Under Bardon – Collections during WW2

Food Barkby & Barkby Thorpe - Cooking Glenfield – Allotments, pig killing Long Clawson – Cheese making Newton Burgoland – Local dairy Whitwick - Fattening pigs Woodhouse Eaves – Crow pie	World War 1 Barwell – Father going to war Dunton Bassett – Celebrations at the end	Farming Ashby Magna – Haymaking Bardon – Harvest, general work Barrow – Hedgelaying, other jobs Frolesworth - Prisoners of War Hungarton – Prisoner of War, Land Girls Nether Broughton – Several generations of farmers

Entertainment Bardon – Cricket Barkby & Barkby Thorpe - Games Barwell – Cinema, theatre Blaby – Fairs Glenfield – Dances Ibstock - Wakes Melton – Cinema, theatre Sharnford – Cricket, games Stanton Under Bardon - Dances	Work Bagworth – Precision Rubbers, Mining Bardon – Quarrying Barrow – Hosiery, Quarrying Blaby – Women working Coalville - Mining, Unions Croft – Quarrying Desford – Local shop Ellistown – Brick making Hinckley - Hosiery Kirby Muxloe – Domestic Service Long Clawson – Cheese making Sharnford – Quarrying, domestic service Sileby - Unions South Wigston – Slaughterhouse, hosiery Stoke Golding - Bakery	Misc Mountsorrel - Workhouse