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86 GLEN PARVA. LEICESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S Public Elementary Schools. South Wigston (infants), erected in 1892, for 405 children; Soutb Wigs ton {boys), erected in 1886 & enlarged in 1892, Miss Florence Knight, mistress for 390 children ~ Henry J ames Barwick, master Railway Station, South Wigston (Leicester '& Rugby line}. South Wigs ton (girls), erected in 1903 for 380; Miss Emma Arthur Harry Washbourne, station master Gertrude Smith, mistress Carriers to Leicester from South Wigston.-Robert Bailey.. Th9mas Arthnr Kibble & Needham & Son, daily GLEN P ARV A. I Brett Arthur C. draper Lewis Mary Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Allsopp John Robert, The Hollies Brooks William, boot maker London Central Meat Co. Ltd. butchers Barwick Henry James, Instow house Brown Henry, shopkeeper London City & Midland Bank Limited Bent Mrs. Belmont house Bruce & Son, elastic web manufacturers (sub-branch) (Willialll Henry Jones, Brittan Rt. Chas. Nicholas, Melford ho Bruc~ John James, pawnbroker manager); open 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 Broce Arthur William, Fernleigh house Bunnmg ~am~el T~eodore, Grand hotel p.m. except. thurs. to 11.30 a.m.; Bruce John James Merival house Clare Ben]amm, pamter draw on head offtce, 5 Threadneedle Bryan Arthur Th~ Limes Clark Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkpr street, London E C Cumberland Arthur G Clarke Ezra, dairyman Longford John Manning L.R.C.P.& s. & Hill Fred Alexander TheManor house Colclough Edith (Miss), milliner L.M.I. physician & surgeon Richardson John He'nry, Melford villa Coll~tt Harry, grocer & beer retailer Lo~eridge Lo~sa (Mrs.), milliner Rollest.on Sir John Fowke Lancelot CollIer John, shopkeeper Mam John BaIley. hosIery manufactrs D.L., J.P. Glen Parva grange; 54 Conservative Club ("WaIter Wright, Martin Arthur, swing boat proprietor Curzon street w; 5 Waterloo place sec.), Glenga;te str~e~ Mawby George, ~hopkeeper s.... w & Carlton, Junior Carlton & Cooper FrederlCk WIlham, boot maker Moore Charles, pIanoforte dealer Royal Automobile clubs s w London Cramp ton Henry, butcher • Needham & Son, carriers Rolleston Miss ' Crane James Alfred, shopkeeper Nowell Edwin, hair dresser Rolleston Wm. Gustavus Stanhope D.L Deem~ng Br~t?ers, printers. Norris Leander C~arles, hardw:are qealer Toone Benjamin, Arrochar lodge Deemmg WIlliam Arnold, statIOner, & OIdershaw Fredenck & Co. bmlders post office Payne Arthur Staddon, watch maker COMMERCIAL. Devas, Routledge & Co. Limited, Porter Arthur, photographer Billson John, coal merchant hosiery manufacturers Randle Ernest, fruiterer Black J. W. & Co. boot manufacturers Dunmore W. & Son Ltd. biscuit manfrs Redshaw Charles, ironmonger Knight Thomas, farmer Ellard William W. boot repairer Ridgway Samuel, cycle maker Lester Percy, shopkeeper Foster Brothers' Clothi~g Co. Ltd.tailors Rudkin W~lliam Henry, insur~nce agent. Stapleton Ernest H. artificial teeth ma Fox Arthur, general sl!llth Sharp Regmald Arth,!r, chemlst Stevens Arthur Harford, inspector of Freeman Samuel, cabmet maker Sharp T~o~as A. pamte; nuisances to Blab,.. Rural District Gamble John Ltd. boot & shoe manfrs Sharp WIlliam, beer retaIler & grocer Council Garnett Joseph H. news agent Shipp Albert George, coal merchant, Ushel'wood William Union inn Gladwell Nellie (Mrs.), confectioner South Wigston station , Glover John George, hosiery manufctr Singer Sewing Machine Co. Limited SOUTH WIGSTON Goodman J. & Co. bakers & corn dealers (Harry Walker, manager) . Goodman Albert, carpenter Smith Hy. & Co. gasfitters & cycle agt.:; Bates Henry Waiter, Countesthorpe rd Grant John Thos. boot & shoe maker Soden Oliver, shopkeeper Gamble W:u~er, Clydes~ale house Harris Arthur, florist South Wigston Adult School & Institute Gamble WIHIam, The LImes Hart Emily (Mrs.), shopkeeper (S. Brewin, hon. sec) Glover Jo~n George, St. Leonards Herrick Thomas, draper South Wigston Fire Brigade (A. Harris, Ken?al NICholas Jsph. Ashbourne house Hickford Charles Edwin, greengrocer capt.), 18 Railway street Rollinson Mrs Higgs John, butcher South Wigston Shoe Co. shoe manufrs Toone Mrs. Cambri~ge ho?se . Holland Thomas, newsagent & shopkpr Southam George & Son, contractors We~.ton Rev. Colm 'Wdfred [v1car], Holmes Florence Annie (Mrs.) & Stapleton George Henry, police sergeant ·\lcarage .. Elizabeth (Miss), grocers Tansey John Cross, fishmonger Weston GeOl'ge, LlOnel Villa Holmes .A.rthur W. drug stOres. Tansey Robert H. greengrocer Homer Lewis, shopkeeper Tarry & Son, tailors COMMERCIAL. Huddleston George Henry, cycle.Jllaker Thornton William, grazier & milk dealer Allsopp Joseph, hair dresser HuddIeston Jane (Mrs.), refreshment-rms Underwood Amos, hair dresser & beer ret Appleton John, laundry Hunt & Son, fried fish dealers Wallis Alfred, pork butcher Bailey Robert, carrier Hunt Alfred E. shopkeeper Warner Arthur, boot repairer Baker Harry Ogilvy, tobacconist Jones Arthur, boot & shoe dealer Warren Arthur, tailor Bale Isaac Henry, bu~cher Kendal Nicholas Joseph M.R.C.S. & Watson Rupert, Clarence hotel Barnley Arthur Nathaniel L.R.C.P., L.R.C.P. surgeon Whyatt George, greengrocer . L.R.C.S.Edin. surgeon & medical officer Kibble Thomas Arthur, carrier Wigston Co-operative Society (Georga & public vaccinator, South Wigs ton Kind Robert, draper William Bass, manager), Blaby road; district, Blaby union & certifying Kirk Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper railway coal wharf (Tom Johnson, factory surgeon Lambert Fredk. Ernest, asst. insur. supt manager) • Bates Henry & Co. Ltd. hosiery manufrs Lambert M. E (Mrs.), teacher of music Wigston Foundry Co. Limited (H. J. Beadsworth Rose (Mrs.), midwife,'Kirk- Leicester (First) Permanent Money Heaton, sec) dale road Soeiety (branch) (open sat. 8 till 9 Wigston Hat & Cap Co. hat manufrs Biggs Frank Colliver, plumber 1 p.m.) (Arthur Brown, sec.),5 Station st Wilson Mary L. (Miss), private school Bird Elizh. Mary (Mrs.), dress maker Leicestershire Dairy Co. Lim. (Edward W orthington's Cash Stores Ltd. grocers Blytbe Herbert, plumber T. Blunt, manager) Wright Heaton & Co. estate agents :Brandon Laura Elizabeth (Miss), conir Leicestershire Nursing Association (Miss Wright Orson & Sons, boot & shoe mfrs Bray Ada (Mrs.), greengrocer E. M. Cauty, hon. sec.), Blaby road Wright WaIter, grocer & provision dealer GLENFIELD is a 'village, township and parish, with a i Kirby Muxloe annexed, joint net yearly value £330, mainly iunnel here 11 miles in length and station on the Leicester i derived from 412 acres of glebe, with residence, in the (West bridge) and Desford branch of the Midland railway, ' gift of Major R. Winstanley, and held since 1899 by the Rev. 3! miles west-north-west from Leicester, and 108! from; Octavius Philpott M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. There London, in the Southern divi~ion of the count.y, hundred: is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1876.- Sunday schools were of Sparkenhoe, BIaby union, l .. eicester petty sessional divi- I erected in 1906, at a cost of £1,000. The land has been ,sion and county court district, rural deanery of Guth-; sold in small plots. The soil is strong loam; subsoil, sand laxton (first portion), archdeaconry of Leicester and, and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. diocese of Peterborough. The old church of St. Peter, a i The area of the township is 767 acres of land and 5 of water; small building with a tower, and retaining sedilia and I rateable value, £4,972; the popUlation in 1911 was 1,105 in piscina, is now rapidly falling into decay. The later the township and in the ecclesiastical parish 2,889. church of the same name, erected in 1877, at a cost of Parish Clerk, William Harrison. :£4,500, is an edific~ of granite, wi~h. Bath stone dressings, Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.- m th~ Early Enghsh style, conslStmg of chancel, nave, Miss Edith Stockley, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive tr~n.septs, vestry, south por~h and a centr.al tower eon- through Leicester 'at ~.30 a,m. & 4.25 p.m.; dispatched tammg ,8 tubular bells, whICh together, WIth .the organ, at 10.20 a.m. & 7.45 p.m.; no sunday delivery cost £330; t~e oak eagle lectern was the gIft of. Dr. Pillar Letter Box, Anstey Lane end, dispatched 10. 5 a.m. Magee, then BIshop of Peterbt;>r~ugh, afterwards.Archbl~hop & 5.25 & 8 p.m.· sunday 7.10 p.m of York: there are 260 sIttmgs. The parIsh regIster " dates from the year 1597 and is in good condition. The GLENFIELD FRITH, formerly extra-parochial, is a living is a rect.ory, with the chapelries of Braulliitont' and parish in Sparkenhoe hundred, Blaby union ·and Leicester .