old photos/books

[treegirl]

Hi!

I recently found a book in the "Images of England" series of the area where I live. It has lots of photos of it through the ages. I was wondering if anyone knew if there is something similar for Leicester and/or the surrounding villages. I would love to be able to see what the places my ancestors lived in looked like!

Thank you in advance

TreeGirl

[diddymiller]

i have just returnes to the library 3 books which i borrowed to help a fellow RChatterer. these were images of Loughborough and i know the library has some villages / Lecester books too.

Worth looking at the leics library website:

http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/community/libraries/library_services/local_studies/family_history.htm

also i find lots of photos and useful info at the leics villages site:

http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/

also francis frith site:

http://www.francisfrith.com/

Diddy

[treegirl]

Thanks for this, Diddy. It's just that I don't live near Leicester, so I was hoping to find something I might be able to buy!

Will follow your links re photos though. Thank you very much!

TreeGirl

[diddymiller]

realised you might not be near, but if library can help with names / details of books you can borrow from your local library on loan or buy. (I used to be a librarian!)

Diddy   

[treegirl]

Ah! Didn't realise I was talking to an expert

TreeGirl

[zena 5]

Hi Treegirl

I wondered if this site on Thurmaston may help you.
http://thurmastonhg.ucoz.com/index.htm

Good luck

Zena

[Mark G]

Thurmaston Heritage Group can be seen at http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~tmi45/genealogy/

[Mvann]

Which villages are you looking for and where are you?

There are a couple of Facebook pages worth joining that have old pictures of some villages. One has had a few of Kibworth on recently plus billesdon, hallaton, smeaton and Belgrave not so long back

[carolmc]

Leicester Mercury newspaper produced a large book of old photos, try ebay. Also try google, put 'Kibworth old photos' in then search, then click on images, good luck, carolmc