PEOPLE AND EVENTS UP TO 1999 4
33-183 LRI parade in Central Avenue Wigston Magna
33-162 Bazaar Day 1932 Long Street School Wigston Magna
33-171 Conservative Club Meeting at Constitution Hall Wigston Magna
33-178 First Wigston Guides at Long Street National School May 1938
33-181 Garden of the Bell Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna
33-188 Jubilee Celebrations 1977 at 127 Oadby Road Wigston Magna
33-189 Ken and Gladys Gamble 50 years of marriage1988
33-196 Kings Drive Wigston Magna c 1964
33-199 Last Passenger train at Wigston Magna Station 1968
33-200 Lawrence Ross ,Isobel Mawby, Val Ross, Martyn Ross from Wigston Magna
33-201 Left Mr T Knight Of Central Ave with George Russell of Cedar Ave taken The Lanes Wigston around 1918-1920
33-209 Little Hill Rounders Team Wigston Magna 1977
33-210 London evacuees arriving at Wigston in October 1940
33-221 Martyn Ross and Cecil Mawby Wigston Magna
33-222 Mary Vann born in Wigston 1796 died 1865
33-223 May 6th 1983 Oadby & Wigston hopefully John Standly is from Wigston
33-229 Nativity play at Wigston united reformed church play group on Long street about 1977
33-263 Official Opening of the Fire Station Bull Head Street Wigston Magna 1967
33-271 Olywyn Cartwright Northfield Ave Wigston married Bill taken Wigston Laundry pre war
33-272 Opening of B & Q Bull Head Street Wigston Magna June 1987
33-283 Private Frederick Charles Garner Mould, born 1884 Wigston Magna.
33-292 Sarah Jane Craxford from Gretton in Northampton and George Smith Junction Road Wigston Magna 1873
33-293 Sarah Roe born in Wigston Magna 1851 died 1886 with her daughter Agnes
33-316 Street party in Northfield avenue Wigston Magna c 1950
33-317 Street party in Northfield avenue ,not sure of date app 1950
33-318 Team from the Bell Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna
33-329 The Lucas Family Aug 2017
33-330 The Menphys Centre Wigston 1978
33-343 The Vikings Tun Darts Team Wigston Magna
33-344 Thomas Hill tenant farmer in Wigston 1965
33-347 Two Steeples families with soldiers who had just signed up for the First World War Glen Parva Barracks
33-353 Wedding of Kath Lucas to Harold Howard
33-356 Wigston Adult School football tean 1920-21 season
33-358 Wigston Boys Brigade
33-359 Wigston Brownies and Guides 1978
33-360 Wigston Brownies and Guides 1978
33-365 Wigston Fields Working Men's Club Party 1948
33-370 Wigston Magna 1968 and a police motor patrol driver explains his duties to schoolchildren
33-375 Wigston Ranger Guide and Venture Scouts New Year Hike 1968
33-376 Wigston St Johns circa 1935
33-378 Wigston Town F.C. 1978-79
33-379 Wigston Wesleyan Football Team 1909 - 10
33-380 William Mattock and Annie Chamberlain Wigston Magna circa 1870
33-383 Workers at the Wigston Laundry Bull Head Street Wigston Magna
33-529 Wigston Factory Party
33-768 Wigston 14th Boys Brigade C 1968
33-507 1st Wigston Guide Company in garden of Kingswood Lodge 1962
33-508 1st Wigston Guides at a Garden Fete Baby Show 1937
33-509 60th Celebrations of the First Wigston Guides, Brownies and the Trefoil Guild in Wigston Constitutional Hall 1974
33-510 1955 Wedding of Mr. Barrie C. EADY & Avice M. DOUGLAS (of Wigston), at St. Stephen's Church.
33-511 1977 Silver Jubilee Barnstaple Close Little Hill Wigston Magna 2
33-512 1977 Silver Jubilee Barnstaple Close Little Hill Wigston Magna
33-515 Alan Kind chairman Age Concern Paddock Street Wigston Magna 1978
33-522 Carey close , little hill Wigston Magna 1981 street party
33-528 Empire Day Parade Wigston Magna circa 1918
33-533 Guides on a hike in Newton Lane Wigston Magna
33-534 Guides on a hike on Cooks Lane Wigston Magna
33-535 Harry Jarvis outside No 35 Leicester Road Wigston Magna
33-554 Magna Sunbeams in Aladin 1968 Wigston Magna
33-565 Peggy Russel at the Modern School Evening Institute Long Street Wigston Magna c 1938
33-567 Reginald Fitchet Wigston Magna joined the Leicester Tigers Regiment at 15 then the Lincolnshire Regiment
33-568 Reginald Fitchett Wigston Magna
Martyn Webster
Martyn Webster
Martyn Webster
Martyn Webster
33-574 Weymouth Close, Little Hill Wigston Magna - Silver Jubilee Street Party.
33-577 Wigston Guides c 1925
33-578 Wigston Home Guard
33-584 Working Exhibit of Wigston Hosiers Ltd at Leicester Congress Exhibition 1915
33-585 Wynne Barnley founder of the Wigston Guides.
33-603 Alpha Girls Long Street Wigston Magna 1960's
33-604 Ann Cousins of Wigston Magna c 1950
33-662 Council Cricket team Wigston Magna c 1960
33-668 Farm yard at Rectory farm Wigston Magna c 1950
33-696 Little Hill Ladies Keep Fit Class 1970's
33-698 Manfield Hosiery float in Wigston Magna Parade 1975
33-701 Mrs Mackay and Mr Dunmore owners of Dunmore & Mackay shop in Leicester Road Wigston Magna
33-719 Opening of Boys Brigade Hall United Reformed Church Long Street Wigston Magna 1989
33-726 Rev T C Deeming 1889 to 1904 Wigston Magna
33-749 Tom Roe watering Co-op Dairy horses Wigston Magna 1966
33-750 Tom Roe with the Co-op horse in Newgate End Wigston Magna c 1960
33-751 Uncovering Bronze age urn Wigston Magna c 1950
33-765 Wigston 14th Boys Brigade C 1968
33-766 Wigston 14th Boys Brigade C 1968
33-767 Wigston 14th Boys Brigade C 1968
33-769 Wigston 14th Boys Brigade C 1968
33-770 Wigston 14th Boys Brigade C 1968
33-771 Wigston Cubs Group Marathon Walk 1968
33-776 Wigston Magna parade along Leicester Road 1975
33-778 A H Broughton Bull Head Street Wigston Magna 1928
33-798 Charity Float Wigston September 1924
33-800 Elaine Wiggins School Photograph Abington Wigston Magna 1959
33-815 Holmden Avenue with Central Avenue Wigston Magna leading off into the distance
33-833 Pupils of the Wigston School of dance 1978
33-848 Youngsters at Wigston Library 1978
33-850 2nd Wigston Frederick Street Methodist Brownies 1985
33-852 14th Wigston Boy's Brigade 1969
33-853 14th Wigston Boys' Brigade Junior Group 1971
33-917 Henry Davis Pochin Wigston Magna
33-855 1939 parade Wigston Magna
33-875 Christmas Panto at All Saints Juniors Wigston Mgna c 1968
33-967 Miss Herbert Defence Medal Wigston
33-968 Miss Herbert Defence Medal Wigston
33-969 Miss P Montgomery left Miss Wigston 1970
33-970 Moat Street Boot company. Registered company in 1919 Moat Street Wigston Magna
34-002 Wigston Co-Op Blue Streaks Ladies Football Team
34-003 Wigston Job Centre opening 1978
34-004 ‘Oliver’ in 1969 L-R Brenda Williams, Jane Smith, ahh! Can’t remember! Stephen Wigfall Wigston Magna
34-036 William Brunger and Gillian Tracy in garden of Avenue House Long Street Wigston Magna c 1955
34-035 The Wignalls Avenue House Long Street Wigston Magna
34-087 Jim Colver and Duncan Lucas removing the old fireplace from Avenue House Long Street Wigston Magna
34-090 Long Street URC boys perform play article
34-104 Wigston 28th Scouts who met in the corrugated hut on Horsewell Lane. This was a camp sometime late 50's at I believe South Kilworth
34-140 Gloria Wright and Cousin Myra 92 Cherry Street Wigston Magna
34-150 Les Hubble in the chairman’s box at the Great Wigston W M C - I was known as Les the Prez
34-155 Mr & Mrs William Cartwright married 60 years 5 Baddeley Drive Wigston Magna Newpaper cutting
34-200 William BOULTER and Naomi
34-202 WWII London evacuees arriving in Wigston 1940
34-218 Betty Boulter Wistow Road Wigston Magna
34-230 Great Wigston Working Mens Club 1920’s
34-236 Magna Sunbeams Peter Pan 1965-66. Judy Perry, Julie Walsh, Mary Mort, Julie Pratt , Tina Norman, Jane Archer and me Sue Hill
34-239 Parade starting in Central Ave Wigston around 1890’s
34-226 Duncan & Jean Lucas – Ann’s christening and Doris Cooper (from Doris’s wool shop, I think on Leicester Road) and her husband Roy
34-251 Harry Nethercot 1931 boxing at The Black Dog Oadby
34-252 Harry Nethercot retirement from Belcote - All Saints School circa 1979
34-254 Inside United Reformed Church c 1940 Wigston Magna
34-258 Coronation Procession in Long Street Wigston Magna 1911
34-270 Vicarage garden party raising funds for All Saints' Church 1958
34-290 Alfred Roe outside his cottage on corner of Moat Street and Welford Road c 1950
34-330 Samuel Broughton Matthews Wigston Magna c 1918
34-332 George Walden of Wigston in France 1915
34-333 George Walden of Wigston on enlistment day 1914
34-347 Joyce Kathleen Mawby who was born in Central Avenue Wigston Magna on 9 November 1918
34-355 The Enchanted Glen performed at The United Reformed Church Long Street Wigston Magna early 1940's
34-356 The Old Wigston WMC 1930's Darts Team
The Master Builder by Donald Hunt
The Master Builder by Donald Hunt
Leicester Mercury
Leicester Mercury
34-373 Centre Jean Mason Junction Road Wigston Magna
34-371 A newspaper cutting 1933 from the Leicester Mercury. Dr Briggs Cricket Cup
34-374 Constance May Jarvis daughter of Julia Jean Dann of Wigston Magna
34-375 Fellow workers from Two Steeples Ltd pictured outside Glen Parva Barracks on 3 September 1914 gathered to wave off - their boys -
34-381 Belgian refugees with Father Caus
34-383 Sergeant William Ewart Boulter VC
34-385 Private Albert Boulter 23766 - 2nd Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment
34-386 Private Harold Boulter 103331 Royal Army Medical Corps
34-387 Ordinary Seaman George Boulter PJ75666
34-389 Julia Dann Wigston Magna c 1905 died 1918
34-391 Mason family taken outside the Constitutional Hall in Cross Street Wigston Magna
34-393 Patrica Mason's wedding at all saints church Wigston Magna
34-395 Princess Diana opening the Menphys Centre on Launceston Road 1990
34-397 Sarah Findley nee Wilkinson of Wigston Magna
34-398 Sarah Mary Abbott from Sapcote to Wigston Magna
34-414 Tom Dann Wigston Magna
34-417 Wigston Parade for LRI c 1933
34-422 Max Daetwyler 3rd from left in Blackpool Aug 1940
34-423 Max Daetwyler and Marion Lucas wedding photo
34-424 Max Daetwyler at a Power Jets training course in Lutterworth 1944
34-425 Max Daetwyler at the high altitude test rig in Munich Germany 1945
34-431 Max Daetwyler being presented with retirement present from Rolls Royce
34-432 Max Daetwyler fron row left at Basic Training Morecame April 1940
34-433 Max Daetwyler in Hurrican after engine run at RAF Valley 1941
34-434 Max Daetwyler left in Blackpool Sept 1940
34-435 Max Daetwyler left sinking a pint at the Armstrong Siddley Xmas party
34-444 Max Daetwyler on left showing bad habit of smoking
34-445 Max Daetwyler retirement from Rolls Royce
34-446 Max Daetwyler retiring from Rolls Royce
34-447 Max Daetwyler right being one of two Reactionaries at Derby in 1997
34-448 Max Daetwyler right Blackpool 1940
34-449 Max Daetwyler right in Blackpool Jun 1940
34-451 Max Daetwyler second left middle at Bristol Siddley Technical Dept
34-452 Max Daetwyler servicing a Hawker Hurricane at RAF Valley 1941
34-453 Max Daetwyler testing the Merlin engine on a Hurrican at RAF Valley 1941
34-454 The Goblin Engine installed in test rig
34-331 George Spencer of 45 Paddock Street Wigston Magna died 1917 WWI
34-257 Wigston U D C Dinner at the County Arms
34-201 William Cartwright Leicester Road Wigston Magna 1952
34-192 Wigston Magna Carnival Queen 1939
34-186 The Wigston Smithy Bull Head Street Wigston Magna 1901
33-671 George and Marion Fish Stewardess & Steward Wigston Magna Conservative Club 1978
34-459 Fred Thorpe and Emma Thorpe taken in the garden of the Royal Oak Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna
34-460 Francis thorpe on the left. Taken in the garden of the Royal Oad Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna
34-477 Wedding of Olive Wheelhouse and Fred Thorpe Christmas Eve 1930 All Saints Church Wigston Magna
34-492 Reginal Robinson b 1934 d 2018 from Wigston Magna
34-493 Reginal Robinson b 1897 d 1917 of Wigston Magna
34-475 Christine Thorpe as baby on knee of mother Olive, Florence Wheelhouse standing and Elizabeth Gamble 1933
34-496 Alfred Silverwood and family Moat Street Wigston Magna
34-496 Bell Street School Wigston Magna 1968
34-519 Harry Marbrook married Joyce Kathleen Mawby at All Saints Church Dec 1938 group photo
34-520 Harry Marbrook married Joyce Kathleen Mawby at All Saints Church Dec 1938
34-544 Isobel Mawby 3rd from left working at the Wigston Laundry
34-546 John Frith's mother and Auntie Beattie Wigston Magna c 1968
34-549 Kew Drive Wigston Magna 1930's
34-550 Kew Drive Wigston Magna group photo 1977 silver jubilee street party
33-585a Wynne Barnley founder of the Wigston Guides
33-690 John Daykin Broughton Wigston Magna
33-721 Peter Cousins Wigston Magna
33-722 Peter Cousins Wigston Magna
34-456 Francis Thorpe on the left taken in the garden of the Royal Oak Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna c 1920
34-457 Francis Thorpe, Robert Thorpe and Frederick Thorpe taken in back garden of the Royal Oak Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna c 1920
34-458 Frederick Thorpe and Francis Thorpe taken in the garden of the Royal Oak Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna c 1920
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34-465 Olive Thorpe nee Wheelhouse and Robert Thorpe taken on honeymoon at Bournmouth
34-462 Maude on the left and Franis on the right taken in front of the Royal Oak Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna c 1920
34-463 l to r Maude, Fred, Francis, Robert, Emma and Annie taken in front of the Royal Oak Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna c 1920
34-464 Olive Thorpe nee Wheelhouse and Robert Thorpe taken on honeymoon at Bournmouth
34-466 Maude Thorpe outside the Royal Oak Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna late 1920's
34-467 Robert Thorpe in fields behind the Royal Oak Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna
34-468 Fred Thorpe with his son Robert in fields opposite the Royal Oak Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna c 1920
34-469 Olive Thorpe nee Wheelhouse c c 1930
34-470 Robert Thorpe
34-472 Olive Thorpe nee Wheelhouse and Robert Thorpe taken on honeymoon at Bournmouth
34-473 Collage of Robert Thorpe through childhood
34-474 Robert Thorpe with elder sister Maude
34-476 Robert Thorpe
34-478 Christime Thorpe on left and Sylvia Thorpe on the right with twins Hillary and Vallerie
34-479 Olive Thorpe c 1938
34-480 Frederick Thorpe in Garden of the Royal Oak Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna
34-481 Frederick and Emma Thorpe in Garden of the Royal Oak Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna
34-482 Frederick and Emma Thorpe in Garden of the Royal Oak Inn Leicester Road Wigston Magna
34-483 Frederick Thorpe in Granville Road Wigston Magna
34-484 Frederick Thorpe in Granville Road Wigston Magna