Auburn, Narborough, Leicestershire

[totally leics]

Hi, have still being trying to research the old school without too much success as yet, but one thing that did crop up was that the sixth form house at the old Lutterworth Grammar school site is named Auburn Place. Maybe there is some scholarly connection in this... or perhaps someone just liked the name!

[totally leics]

Hi, for all those who have an interest in this topic. I was browsing in the local bookstore when I came across a small book with photos of Enderby, Narborough and Littlethorpe. One photo was named Auburn Road, Fosse, Narborough dated 1907,and showed a large Victorian building with several tall arched windows. It stated that it was being used as a convent at that time, but I wondered if perhaps this might have been the building that was previously the school?    TL

[SianM]

Turns out one of my relatives, a Martha Dann, was a servant at Auburn House School in 1851.  As of yet I know nothing else about the place.

[Artypie]

Auburn Place in Lutterworth was built as a domestic dwelling for George Spencer, the owner of the Vedonis factory in the town, which was on Crescent Road. He died in 1947. I think I read somewhere that he left the house to the Grammar School. The house became a day nursery, after many years as the sixth form centre. I imagine that the name Auburn comes from the colour of the bricks, or maybe the trees in autumn.

[danfan]

I have just downloaded the 1851 Census for Waltham on the Wold. A family called COOK. The wife, Ann Cook, age 39. is listed as being born 1812 in Auburn, Leicester. Hence my curiosity. I have still to find out her maiden name.

[neilfuller99]

George Spencer, who lived at Auburn Place in Lutterworth, had this house built for him to live in. He named it "Auburn Place" after the house he was born in back in the 1860s in Basford, Nottingham. Hope this helps. Neil in York