eaw043368 ENGLAND (1952). The town, Market Harborough, 1952

kibworth A6 leicester-london rail crossing bridge

the pool building kids from schools across the harborough district area was bused or walked to the pool for swimming lessons each week in term time for a hour at a time

welland park rd

harborough (bottomless) pond use to control stormwater flow into the town. water collects and is stored with a controlled flow to the river via a culvert. talltails that american GIs pushed a jeep in after the war came to nothing when the pond was dredged in the mid 80s/early 90s as ground along fairfield rd and the old A6 was redeveloped for housing and a new fire station

fairfield road

leicester lane to gt bowden

burnmill rd

the robert smythe school burnmill rd

langton rail station

this part of the site will be cleared and the gartree prison complex will sit over this entire area with new purpose built buildings multi highwire fences and high powered security lighting at night

the road that now runs passed the prison on to foxton village

old m/gun sentry guard box a reinforced concrete m/gun box still on site in 2015 sits 30 odd yards off the road with a line of sight across the old runways

site of harborough/leicester county councils depot for road maintenance

gartree runways interaction to gartree both the nth west and sth east arms have been returned to agriculture only a ghost outline on aerial maps show of their existence across the modern fields

st luke's hospital and grounds

melton mowbray/langton rd this is now the service area for the harborough A6 north/southern bypass

the hatchery at kibworth on the A6 now crouches recovery HQ

the hatchery at kibworth on the A6 now crouches recovery HQ

ex MOD equipment trucks/jeeps m/cycles and other WW2 surplus equipment for scrapping and disposal in readiness for the home office to convert the site in the next few years coming as a modern high security prison

the six packs inn

northampton / rugby spur rugby closed in the late 60s northampton survived till the early 80s before being killed completely by harborough councils rush to destroy the track bed and bridges to the towns southern border. a heritage site survives at the northampton end of the line but disconnected from the main rail network (a short sighted/ill thought out loss for each towns tourism by both councils)

northampton rd rail bridge

harborough indoor covered market

welland park school

symington through passage off adam & eve st https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4784758,-0.9202635,3a,75y,40.85h,77.1t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4 !1ssZ0xCFrZSDWnhggyBec6sw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656. click copy or paste to see the modern day street view

harborough public baths and council offices the pool building now demolished and a residential retirement complex in its place

harborough public baths and council offices the pool building now demolished and a residential retirement complex in its place

the harborough to rugby line dismantled in the short sighted beeching cuts of the 1960s

walcot rd est on land adjacent to what will become the commons car park in later years. a bridge over the welland river will be built to gain vehicle access onto the land only to be removed in the late 1980s and a pedestrian foot bridge put in its place

the settling room now in sainsburys car park now all that is left of the old cattle market that was cleared and relocated out of town near the gartree prison site on the old airfield west of the prison