Loughborough gates quiz answers

Gates and gate piers - the answers to last week's quiz!

I hope you enjoyed puzzling over last week's photographs of gates, gate piers and entrances in Loughborough. I bet you got most of them right, didn't you?! IN case you want to check, the answers are below.

A. Gates onto the Beacon Road allotments. This is just one set of hundreds of allotments across the town, ranging in size from 67 plots on Alan Moss Road, to just 3 on Castledine Street Extension. (More in 'Secret Loughborough') (1)

 

B. Gates to Glebe House from the Greenbelt. This used to be the rectory associated with Emmanuel church, and was built of red brick in 1851, whilst Reverend Bunch was the incumbent. The building was associated with Glebe House, which focussed on helping people with learning difficulties, from around 1982, until 2010 when the establishment moved to the former Magistrate’s Court on Wood Gate, and the Hardwick House School, took over Glebe House in around 2013. It’s a locally listed building. (3)

 

C. Gates off Forest Road into the university halls of Falkner-Eggington. This self-catering hall is named after Alfred Thomas Eggington, (1888-1982) who was awarded the Military Cross in 1916, and was Headmaster of Loughborough College School, from 1919-1952, and Mayor of Loughborough, 1922-23, and Harold Everett Falkner, (1893-1977) who, having been a flight lieutenant in the RAF, and retiring in 1935, founded the university department of Aeronautical Engineering, and went on to become its head of department. (5)

 

D. The Co-op store on that part of Knightthorpe Road which is off Epinal Way and leads to Thorpe Hill, was previously the site of the Maltings pub, which had changed its name from the Gallant Knight. Knightthorpe Hall had previously occupied the site, and these are the gates to Knightthorpe Hall. The picture is taken from inside the Co-op grounds looking out towards the part of Knightthorpe Road that leads to Derby Road. (7)

 

E. This photo is of a very pretty gate on house on Derby Road, which is on the corner of Knightthorpe Road, the other corner being occupied by the Ring ‘O’ Bells pub. (9)

 

F. You may well be familiar with the main entrance to the Old Rectory down on the junction of Steeple Row and Rectory place, but this is not the only entrance. On the corner of Fennel Street and Steeple Row are this pair of gate piers making the other entrance to the Old Rectory. Before the building was partially demolished, it had a long sweeping drive which ran from the entrance pictured to the other entrance, passing what would have then been the front of the house. More info here. (11)

 

G. The Burton Street entrance to the Grammar School and High School has bright blue gates and railings which were made by Beeby and Henton, local ironfounders.  (13)

 

H. I couldn’t get close enough to see who had made these particular gates as there was a lot of overgrown undergrowth, but zooming in, it appeared to be Hill and Smith! This is a bridge across the Burleigh Brook into the university campus off Ashby Road. (32)

 

I. This gate pier is attached to a house on Knightthorpe Road. Some of the other house names along that road include Myrtle Villa, Albert Villa, Oak Villa, Rockside, Thrift House and Cliff View. (33)

 

J. This entrance is usually covered by the large brown wooden gates you can see in the photos, so when these are open it makes the location harder to work out. This is the big entrance into Lowe’s, the furnishers, on Church Gate (34)

 

K. This photo shows the right-hand portion of the Bastard Gates, which lead into the university off Ashby Road, practically opposite the university’s William Morris hall of residence (the hall is named after William Morris, and strictly speaking is owned by Unite). ‘In 1934, an arched gateway into Rutland Hall and the athletic ground was donated by William Bastard, the Chair of the College Governors (not by Frank Bastert, the partner of Herbert Morris, and who retired in 1911.’ – extract from ‘Secret Loughborough’ (41)

 

L. This sign is on house no.195 on Forest Road. Head up Forest Road towards Nanpantan and the bungalow is just past Ashleigh Drive, on that side of the road. Forest Road is a great example showing the development and expansion of Loughborough, so it’s peppered with old houses and new-builds side-by-side.  (45)

And that's it for this week! There are plenty more photos waiting in the wings for a quiz in the future, so do keep checking back!

See you next week!

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