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charity. of £172 yearly (after paying expenses of repairs URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. &c.) IS expended for education, scholarships &c. Meetings are held at the Council school, Hall Croft, on apprentices' outfits, necessItous persons and various the 4th tuesday in the month. other benevolent objects. Palmer's charity of 408. yearly is distributed at Christmas amongst 40 aged Members. persons; Hickling'8 charity of 4s. yearly is for a bible. Chairman, Charles Griffin M.B. ~l recreation ground of 4 acres was rented in 1897, Vice-Chairman, Charles Herbert Nelson. \ and bought by the Urban District Council in 190I. Retire in April, 1916 (retirement postponed for one Everard March-Phillipp8 de Lisle esq. J.P. of Garendon year). Parl{, is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The manufacture of hosiery and boots and shoes is largely Walter l3aker Joseph H. arriman J.P .carried on here. is about 10 miles Charles Griffin IAlfred Hubbard in length and 6 in breadth: some parts of it rise into Retire in April, 1917 . .considerable elevations, bearing some resemblance to the High Peak in , particularly Beacon Hill, Harry Fred Green I Charles Mee J.P Bardon Hill, and Cliff Hill, the first two of Charles Benjamin Hanford William Whitworth these affording very extensive views; these hills, con­ Retire in April, 1918. tinued northward, constitute the first part of the chain Harry A. Atkin Charles Herbert Nelson '01' ridge which at length becomes the Peak of Derby­ shire: the summits of many, and particularly that of Henry Mee I Charles Smith l3eacon Hill, which is about 850 feet in height, consist Officers. of vast naked craggy rocks, almost universally facing the west; these are composed of very hard grey stone, like Clerk, Michael Smith, Charnwood road the blue elvan stone of Cornwall, but not so fissile; it is Treasurer, G. F. Brewill, Nottingham & Notts Banking of an extremely close grit, giving fire to steel, and some Co. Bull ring kinds will resist heavy' blows of a hammer: others of Medical Officer of Health, Thomas Bell M.D., C.M.Glas. these rocks are composed of syenite, of which a much Brooklyn house, Brook street more perfect description abounds in the neighbourhood Surveyor, John Gilbert Foston, Brook street of Mountsorrel, where it is used for bnilding purposes Sanitary Inspector, W. North Hampton, Ring Fence and street paving'. The soil is loam; subsoil, red sand­ Rate Collector, Amos Dexter, Queen street stone. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and roots. The area of the civil parish and Urban District PUBLIC ELE~IENT1RY SCHOOLS. is 5,234 acres of land and 46 of water; rateable value, £20,i22. In 19II the parish contained 5,542 inhabitants Gnder the provisions of the "Education Act, 1902," a (which includes Oaks-in-Charnwood, an ecclesiastical cOlllmittee of managers was fOfllled parish, which see). The population of the ecclesiastical Council, Hall Croft (mixed & infants), erected in 1876 parish in 19II was $,167, & enlarged 1884, for $28 children; WaIter Baker, master, Miss Lilian Newman, infants' mistress Parish Clerk and Verger, Charles Wood. Loughborough road (mixed & infants), erected in 1838 & enlarged in 1896, for 507 children; Alfred Hubbard, Post, M. 0., T., Telephonic Express Delivery & Tele­ master; Miss Edith A. Jarvis, infants' mistress phone Call Office,. Market place.-Henry Freeman, Cathqlic (mixed), Britannia street, for 212 children; eub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Loughborough Albert William Cullen, master at 6.50 a.m. & 2.15 p.m.; dispatched at 10.55 a.m. & Catholic (infants), Field street, erected in 1896, for 130 5.55 p.m.; no dispatch or delivery on sundays children; Miss Ivy Helen J ackson, mistress Town Sub-Post Office, Charnwood road.-William Smith, sub-postmaster. Box cleared at 10.25 a.m. & Railway Station, Charles T. Powell, station master p.m c Police Station, Brook street, Nathaniel Almey, sergeant, Wall Boxes.-Forest Gate, cleared 10.40 a.m. & 5.40 & 2 constables p.m.; Charles Way, cleared 10.25 a.m. & 6 p.m.; C1RRlERS TO:­ Ashby road, 9.15 a.m. & 6.15 p.m. week days only; Loughborough road, II a.m. & 5.35 p.m.; Blackbrook Leicester-Albert Harrv Tivev, sat road, 8 a.m. & 5.45 p.m.; Iveshead, 6.10 p.m Loughborough-.Hbert 'Harry 'Tivey, daily

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. IWoolley Alfred Ernest, The Limes, I· the Urban District Council, medic~l Beardsley ~\rth. Lionel, Charncliffe ho Leicel'i:er road i officer & publIc vaccinator Shepshed Bell Thomas M.D. Brooklyn house, COMMERCIAL.' I district, Loughborough, & certify- l3rook street AlIen Eliza. Jane (Miss), milliner, ing fa.ctory surgeon, Brooklyn house, Brewill Geo. >Fredk.Bank hO.Bull ring Charnwood road Brook street Clark Rev. Henry Douglas Gee M.A. Almey Thomals, farmer, Belton street I Berridge WaIter, White Horse P.H. (vicar), Vicarage, Charnwood road Amos Alice M. (Mrs.), fancy draper, Ashby road Collard Rev. Henry A.T.S. (Baptist), Field street Berrisford Ernest, Richmond Arms Gurendon road Amos Frederick, saddler, Field street P.H. Forest street Cotton Henry Geary, Charnwood I'd Annable Albert, firewood dealer. Bexon Jemima(Miss),grocer,Queen st Coup )Vil1iam Edward, Leicester road Charnwood road Bexon OliveI', ale &. porter merchant, Gibbs Harry Herbert, Leicester road Atkin Brothers, carp ent·ers , Belton st Queen street GoodallMiSlses,Old vicarage, Church st Atkin Saml. bricklayer, Sullington I'd Blood Geo.Wm. buildr. Garendon rd Griffin Charles ~I.B. Trevon~, Charn. Bagworth & Gent, butchers, Field st Blood Wm. market grdnr.Leicester rd wood road Ba,gworth Willia.m (Mrs.), dreSls ma. Bowley Francis, farmer, Blackbrook Griffin Mrs. Park side, Leicester road Kirkhill street Bowley Joseph Robert, wheelwright, Hanford William, Oxley villa, Charn- Baker Henry, farmer, Hurst lodge Brook street & miller (water), wood road Baker John, farmer, Morley farm Hathern road Harriman Carlton Goodall, Hill Crest Barclay & Company Limited, banliers Brewill George Frederick, manager of Harriman Jsph.J.P.Fernside,Brook st (sub-branch) (Chas. Stuart Taylor, the Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Heathcote Frederick, Ingleberry manager), open tues. & fri. 12 to 2, Bank Ltd. & treasurer to the Urban J:m~sens Rev. P. (Catholic), The Bull ring; draw on head office District Council, Bull ring Elms, Charnwood ro·ad Barker Alfred, farmer,Blackbrook frill Briers Bros. cab propr~. Cheap side Lacey John, Springfield house, Barker Andrew, farrrer, Littlehaw Briers Edwin, tailor, Field street Charnwood road Barker Henry, fried fish dealer, Britannic Assurance Go. Ltd. (Harold Martens Very Rev. Canon ~~loysius Charnwood road" Bush, supt.); district office, Kirk- (Catholic), The Elms,Charnwood I'd Beardsley Arthur Lionel, solicitor, hilI street Mee Charles J.P. Lawson cottage, Bull ring Brotherhood In.Ry.shopkpr.Forest st Charnwood road Beardsley William Frederick Bent, Brown & Sons, boot & shoe makers, Nelson Charles Herbert, Leicester I'd solicitor & commissioner for oaths, Britannia street Pope Rev. Alfred Edward (Baptist), see Woolley, l3eardslE'Ys & Bosworth Brown Frederick, De Lisle Arms P.R Charnwood road Beer Arth. shopkpr. Charnwood road Brown James,bE'er retailer.Factory st PyemQnt Misses, Charnwood road Beer Charles Henry Jackson, pawll- Cartledge Geo.Pied BullP.H.Belton st Smith Thos. The Gables, Leicester I'd broker, Britannia strpet Cemetery (M. Smith, clerk), Charn- Squires Laurence H. Leicester road Bper William, beer retailer, Field st wood road Wade George, 'Westrayd Bell Thomas M.D., C.M.Glas. sur-/ Chapman James, farmer, Guilders' Whyte Tom Griffin, Charnwbod road. geon, & medical officer of health to hail, Oharnwood road