06 - Townings Farm, Leake Road

This old farm house with its barns and stables once marked the southern end of Town Street occupying land up the current bus garage. Town Street so named before the adoption of the title Leake Road which entailed renumbering the houses from Kegworth Road junction. Before 1900 this was essentially where the village ended.

Mr Towning, used to have a horse and cart waggon service to Nottingham.

Where the beauty salon is now there used to be 3 shops in a line: a cobblers, hardware and bike shops along with 3 petrol pumps, and a butchers.

Note the height of the road has been increased over the years witnessed by the steps going down in to the shop, which was originally the cow sheds.

One old village document relates how floods in this region caused animals and chickens to be drowned.

The butchers shop was demolished to make way for two houses (Nos.46 & 46A).