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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