PEOPLE AND EVENTS 1
26-102 John Goodwin making a presentation
26-103 Tree planting in garden of the vicarage
26-104 Wedding of Ken and Ivy Pickett
26-105 Rev Ken Pickett and his wife Ivy plus John and Enid Goodwin on right
26-106 Trevor Harris being congratulated by Councilor Curtis Weston July 1949
26-107 Trevor Harris being congratulated by Councilor Curtis Weston 20 July 1949 Leicester Mercury
26-127 AYPA Print Shed in South Wigston
26-128 AYPA Leicester Diocesan Group 1962
26-129 All British Council Week (AYPA) High Leigh Conference Centre Hertfordshire 1962
26-140 Outside St Thomas the Apostle Church Blaby Road South Wigston
26-428 South Wigston children depicting a wedding party circa 1915
26-465 early 1900's Midland Railway staff in a classic group photo on the platform at Wigston South station
26-465a early 1900's Midland Railway staff in a classic group photo on the platform at Wigston South station
29-147 Parade Blaby Road South Wigston
29-169 Opening of the Co-op shop Fairfield Estate South Wigston 1963
29-325 The Leicestershire Regiment marching along Blaby Road 1945
29-381 Charle Moors Band in the early 1890's in South Wigston
29-383 Mr William Smith of South Wigston whose hobby is making violins
29-407 Gertie Gitana South Wigston circa 1915
29-407a Gertie Gitana South Wigston circa 1915
29-408 Henry Walter Bates South Wigston circa 1940
29-408a Henry Walter Bates South Wigston circa 1940
29-409 Hosiery Girls at Mains South Wigston Leicestershire 1960's
29-410 Orson Wright 1895 South Wigston
29-410a Orson Wright 1895 South Wigston
29-410b Orson Wright 1895 South Wigston
29-411 The Bates family South Wigston
29-412 Wedding Elsie Marshall to Reginal Thomas Kew Whiting South Wigston Leicestershire 1941
30-076 South Wigston Football Team
30-314 Jacobs Biscuits South Wigston Sept 2016
30-455 Co-operative Society staff outside the new store in South Wigston
30-503 Albert Thornton born 1887 Oadby. He lived at 47 Glengate South Wigston. Another of Mary Ann Thornton's sons.
30-517 Brenda Garner's parents
30-563 Workforce at Allens Hosiery Canal Street South Wigston pre 1963
30-698 Maud Ellen Russell and husband Matthew Moldsworth Russell
30-719 Premier Drum South Wigston Mid 1960's
30-768 Bassett Street Junior School Trip to Church Langton School circa 1966
30-835 1878 John George Glover in the office of J G Glover South Wigston
30-836 1905 wedding of Annie Oldershaw and Francis Buckby who were living at 31 Irlam St in 1911
30-837 1922 photo of Lionel Blakesley and Elsie Noble who were married at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Sth Wigston
30-846 Brender Slaney and Sharon O'Flynn South Wigston 1971
30-862 Family Wedding Christine Edwards to Michael Fisher around 1962
30-877 Jim Colver playing cricket at Blaby Road South Wigston
30-880 Brenda Slaney Lansdown Grove South Wigston 1973
30-909 Premier Drums Christmas party circa 1970 South Wigston
30-922 South Wigston Congregational Church Concert circa 1960
30-924 St Thomas Church Choir South Wigston 1951
30-980 Wigston Working Men's Club Committee Long Street Wigston Magna
30-983 Robert Tyres Cooke 1882 - 1957
31-044 the younger girl is my Mum Peggy and elder her sister Mary Russell circa 1926
31-046 At work in premier drum plating shop when the Jam drummer payed a visit about 1979
31-062 Blaby Board of Guardians and Officials 1911
31-080 Edith Allen and Constance
31-100 Keith Dennis Maureen Eric and David Norman South Wigstonlate 1930's
31-105 Lizzie Bolton outside Glen Parva Barracks I guess welcoming troops
31-115 Peggy Slaney Nee Russell (my Mum) left and Hetty Richards nee Green
31-116 Peggy Slaney Nee Russell
31-122 Slaney
31-123 South Wigston Methodist Chapel youth club outing to Skeggy 1949
31-125 The bridle before they knocked the railway bridge to south wigston down
31-126 The Malkin men of South Wigston ( Park Road ) 1980
31-128 This pic was taken in the back yard of the Bull family in Baldwin Avenue South Wigston
31-153 Ashley Malkin on back step at 13 Florence Avenue South Wigston mid 80's
31-182 Fred and Blanche Green with children Blanche and Ivy circa 1915
31-217 Moses Allen police officer with wife Nellie and children
31-233 outing of a group from the Primitive Methodist Chuch on Countesthorpe Road South Wigston
31-254 South wigston working mens club circa 1948
31-255 The Green children Hetty, Ivy and Arthur circa 1923
31-342 Maureen Norman with Nanna Lilian Norman Darley Ave. South Wigston
31-392 Wigston Lads 1968
32-008 Dunmore's Buscuit factory firms outing south wigston
32-076 Clarence table skittles team South Wigston
32-077 Constone Cricket Club Blaby Road South Wigston 1949
32-088 Jack and Kath Hill South Wigston
32-110 Picture of Rosie Burton
32-112 Records bought from Charles Moore music shop Blaby Road South Wigston
32-132 Girls from Mailns Ltd South Wigston
32-146 Gloria Wright age 3 by the canal in Wigston. circa1955
32-290 Mr Mr Wild South Wigston High School mid 1970's
32-305 South Wigston Football Team1922 Jhn Alfred Hill front row 2nd from left
32-307 South Wigston Rugby Football Club 1913 -14
32-320 The Navigation Inn Kilby Bridge early 70s, Dennis the landlord far left
32-327 Timber Street South Wigston VE Day celebrations
32-328 Timber Street South Wigston VE Day celebrations
32-351 Brian (Bertie ) Bray was a woodwork teacher at South Wigstn High School 63-66
32-380 South Wigston High School turned 70 in 2014.
32-417 Margaet Matthews teacher at South Wigston Girls School 1904
32-429 Mark Newman Teacher at South Wigston Junior Basset Street School 1966
32-531 Mrs Dixon outside her house on Station St.South Wigston
32-567 Residents Jasmine Court South Wigston
32-582 Toone and Blacks Shoe Factory Saffron Lane South Wigston Unknown man retiring c1948
32-582a Toone and Blacks Shoe Factory Saffron Lane South Wigston Unknown man retiring c1948
33-073 Elizabeth Slaney 51 Station Street South Wigston died 1968
33-089 Bert Farmer 2nd from right at Frears biscuits mid sixties at Canal Street South Wigston
33-130 Charles Smith, Countesthorpe Road South Wigston Fire damage c 1980
33-152 Janet Butt, Brian, Eileen and John, Lansdowne grove South Wigston 1940
33-166 British Rail under 16’s football team about 1973
33-167 British Rail under 16’s football team about 1973
33-168 British Rail under 16’s football team about 1973
33-169 British Rail under 16’s football team about 1973
33-236 Norah Gardiner and children at South Wigston Park 1947
33-274 Phil Collins outside Premier drum many moons ago
33-275 Premier Drum 1978
33-276 Premier Drum a distinctive building South Wigston
33-307 South Wigston Rugby Football Club South Wigston
33-308 South Wigston Rugby Football Club South Wigston
33-345 Thomas William Gardiner 1913-1981
33-355 Wigston Brass Band at the ruins of Knaptoft Church
33-586 Miss Eileen Harding Carnival Queen South Wigston 1939
33-737 South Wigston Methodist Players' in Mother Goose 1978
33-743 The cast of St. Thomas's Operatic Society South Wigston October 1940
33-746 The Woodward family on the fields at the back of Orange Street South Wigston c 1953
33-756 Walter Woodward in caracter at St Thomas's Church South Wigston Production of The Rebel Maid 1939
33-758 Walter Woodward outside a small hut either in the Park off Blaby Road or at the open air swimming baths near the canal next to Bush Lock 1928
33-805 Fred Smith 1 Railway Street South Wigston 1978
33-810 Garden Street South Wigston 1953
33-811 Grand Hotel Canal Street South Wigston
33-812 Grave Stone of Gertrude Ross Wigston Cemetery
33-823 Nanna Thacker and Mary with Halls shop in the background South Wigston
33-838 St Thomas's Sunday School South Wigston circa 1970
33-840 The Spray family playing in The Wigston Temperance Band South Wigston 1968
33-854 25th Leicester (South Wigston) Boy's Brigade
33-877 First Ladies Committee of the South Wigston conservative club c 1975
33-988 Sherborne Avenue, street party to commemorate 50th Anniversary of VE Day - May 1995 Wigston Magna
33-996 The top of Blaby Road South Wigston, painted on the old Atkinsons Dye works. Now the College.
34-012 Drury & Co. Ltd’s Staff Christmas Party 1966
34-015 George Roberts at Wigston South Sidings
34-017 Guests at South Wigston Infant Welfare Centre dance, 1938
34-032 Teachers and heads south Wigston high school (boys) early sixties
34-096 Fred Ellard standing Station Street South Wigston
34-115 1939 Carnival Queen Eileen Harding and Attendants South Wigston
34-120 Believed to be John Gamble of South Wigston
34-128 Constones South Wigston Cricket team in 1949
34-154 Marriage of Harry Slaney to Peggy Russell 11-11-1944 + Poem
34-154a Marriage of Harry Slaney to Peggy Russell 11-11-1944 + Poem
34-156 Mr Kerr Jim Finnegan John Finnegan Summer 1966 outside The Grand Hotel South Wigston
34-168 Premier Drum plating shop workers Blaby Road South Wigston
34-177 The Boys Brigade meeting in St Thomas church hall South Wigston c 1930
34-189 Wedding Couple on float in 1939 South Wigston Parade
34-190 Wedding Couple on float in 1939 South Wigston Parade
34-208 Marching Band South Wigston In 1939 Pagent
34-237 Mrs Kerr landlady at the Grand Hotel South Wigston 1968
34-260 Bassets Street Infants School South Wigston 1895
34-262 Roger Mattock late 1950s in the fields behind Lansdowne Grove. South Wigston
34-263 South Wigston Football Team c 1930's
34-264 South Wigston Football Team St Thomas's 1911
34-269 South Wigston Marching Band 1939
34-390 Kitcheners recruits with their NCO outside No 11 Bassett Street South Wigston
34-399 South Wigston Adult School c 1911
34-574 Police funeral procession in Blaby Road South Wigston 1937
34-629 South Wigston Bell Ringers world record set on 27th December 1904
34-692 South Wigston Carnival 1935
34-694 St Thomas' Church Hall, South Wigston circa 1930
34-695 St Thomas's Sunday School group mid 1970's
34-709 A Cattell, A Wheelwright and E Gahan South Wigston 1970
34-730 Mr R Kind with Wesleyan Chapel Sunday School Class 1910 South Wigston
34-735 South Wigston Girls School Staff 1957
34-736 The Dougherty family of Fernleigh House Blaby Road 1895
34-737 The Robinson family of Glengate Blaby Road South Wigston 1846
34-745 Lionel Blakesley & Elsie Noble Wedding at The Wesleyan Methodist Church, Blaby Road, South Wigston 1922
34-760 Clary Waterfield outside his Lock Keepers cottage, on the Grand Union canal South Wigston
34-776 Eric Holmes South Wigston
34-820 Allen & May Snutch rear of 31 Albion Street South Wigston c 1950
34-821 Allen Snutch in Army uniform c 1918
34-822 Allen Snutch with Elsie nee Oldenshaw on right and twin sister Mabel on left c 1955
34-823 Allen Snutch c 1925
34-825 Allen Snutch in the back room of 31 Albion Street South Wigston 1960's
34-828 Elsie Oldershaw in back garden of 31 Albion Street South Wigston 1940's
34-829 Elsie Oldershaw in back garden of 31 Albion Street South Wigston 1940's
34-830 Elsie Oldershaw in back garden of 31 Albion Street South Wigston 1950's
34-831 Allen Snutch with granddaughter Pauline in garden of 31 Albion Street South Wigston c 1954
34-832 George Snutch early 1930's
34-833 George Snutch late 1930's
34-834 George Snutch c 1948
34-835 George Snutch in RAF uniform 1946
34-836 Harry Oldenshaw in Army uniform c 1919
34-837 Wedding of Edward Fenwick and Marjory early 1950's
34-838 South Wigston Bowling Club at Clarance Ballroom South Wigston
34-843 Irene Mary Allen of Ibstock marries Thomas Reynolds of South Wigston
34-844 Tommy Reynolds of South Wigston
34-845 Miss M Snutch of South Wigston marries A Fenwick of Oadby
34-875 Maude Oldershaw
34-876 May Snutch holding Pauline and Valerie by her side at 31 Albion Street South Wigston
34-877 May Oldershaw
34-878 Oldershaw family Saffron Road South Wigston
34-879 Snutch family in garden of 31 Albion Street South Wigston
34-881 Wedding of George Snutch to May Oldershaw at Congregational Church Blaby Road South Wigston
35-113 Coronation celebrations South Wigston
35-327 Peggy Slaney and Doris Statham South Wigston 1969
35-328 raised footpath at Crow Mills. L to R Eric Faulkner, Alma Faulkner, Albert Faulkner taken about 1931.
35-330 South Wigston Albion Football Club 1904
35-337 Wedding of Harry Slaney & Peggy Russell Armistice Day 1944 - Wedding Reception was at the Constitutional Hall Wigston Magna
35-356 Jim and Norah Gardiner nee Bown Wedding Day 1938 taken in the back garden of 45 Canal Street South Wigston
35-387 Orson Wright and his family
35-388 Orson Wright and his family at a later date
35-389 Worker at the Wigston Brick & Tile Works South Wigston
35-390 Wigston Temperance Brass Band
35-392 Worker at the Wigston Brick & Tile Works South Wigston
35-395 Orson Wright & Family South Wigston
35-412 Albert Bown and Alice oliver 8 Park Road South Wigston
35-570 Cyril Wilson Black of Toone & Black Ltd South Wigston
35-571 Dunmores factory at a social due in the mid 50's.
35-611 Doing the washing 23 Florence Ave South Wigston
35-627 Jane Burton leaving W A Atkinson Ltd Canal Street South Wigston to get married 1985
35-628 King George V jubilee 1935 somewhere in South Wigston
35-651 Wesleyan choir Blaby Road South Wigston c1912
35-652 Wesleyan ricket Team South Wigston
35-671 Herbert Charles Wright MD of Orson Wright & Sons Canal Street South Wigston 1929
35-672 Lasting Room at Orson Wright & Sons Canal Street South Wigston c 1929
35-680 Workers outside Orson Wright Shoe Factory Canal Street South Wigston
35-682 Dorothy James presenting the Sonny James Trophy South Wigston
35-702 J G Glover in his office at Stamford Works Canal Street South Wigston 1901
35-703 Henry & Jane Dougherty and daughters South Wigston c 1880
35-710 Family of Orson Wright c 1900 South Wigston a
35-710 Family of Orson Wright c 1900 South Wigston b
35-721 Orson Wright c 1900 South Wigston
35-748 Carnival float Wigston Magna 1939
35-749 Audrey Foulston nee Robinson Carnival Queen Wigston Magna 1939
35-750 Carnival Queen Audrey Fouleston Wigston Magna 1938
35-767 Armistice parade, South Wigston 1934’
35-770 The Grotesques in 1927
35-782 George & Fred Oldeshaw - First Oldershaw Brothers Builders Canal Street South Wigston
35-783 Frederick Oldershaw founder of Oldershaw Bros Builders Canal Street South Wigston
35-794 Oldershaw Bros Builders Canal Street South Wigston Henry & Fred Oldershaw (JNR) - Second Oldershaw Brothers
35-886 Mrs Thacker and her daughter Mary on corner of Garden Street South Wigston
35-889 Reunion between Gerry Stacey and his old pal Eric Norman south Wigston
35-940 Pirates of Penzance 1932 performed at St. Thomas South Wigston
35-949 The Grotesques
39-064 workers at a Munitions factory Parmeko 1942
39-065 workers at a Munitions factory Parmeko 1942
39-068 Staff outside the front entrance of Orson Wright Boot & Shoe factory in Canal Street South Wigston
39-248 Albert the Sweep, he lived on the Grove in South Wigston - a friend of the Skinners
39-279 Gunner William Edwin Walden
39-280 Gunner William Edwin Walden
39-338 Milkman Ian Ellis could not resist offering a little of the milk of human kindness to the cold-hearted traffic policeman on Winslow Drive in Wigston, in January 1986
39-344 Pete Black and wife South Wigston
39-345 Pete Black owner of ktee tyres of South Wigston 2021
39-345 Pete Black owner of ktee tyres of South Wigston
39-368 W.A. Atkinson, South Wigston outing to Skegness June 30th 1951
39-419 Guard of Honour Gough wedding from some members of Wigston Joint Ranger-Venture Unit in 1984 The wedding was at St Thomas' Church in South Wigston
39-432 Nabisco-Frears Ltd Canal Street South Wigston 1970
39-437 Party at The Prims Church 1945 South Wigston
39-469 Black's Shoe Factory Saffron Road South Wigston circa 1944
39-470 J W Black & Co Saffron Road South Wigston
39-514 Richard and Robert Smith back garden at 105 Kirkdale Road South Wigston 1961
39-623 Wigston Scouts South Wigston c1952
39-695 Mary Herbert daughter of Prim Wray Stads St Thomas’s Amateur dramatic society
39-696 Bob Gahan and Linda Payne STADS Pantomime
39-697 Mary Herbert daughter of Prim Wray Stads St Thomas’s Amateur dramatic society
39-698 Kathryn Arnold (Herbert) and Bryan Green 1979 in a parade from Oadby to South Wigston.
39-705 St. Thomas's Drama Society ladies in retirement
39-707 Kathryn Arnold nee Herbert and Chris Smith