Hollywood actor gets stuck in toilet
1) Some years ago, Sharnford was delighted and honoured to play host to the world-famous film star, Tyrone Power. At the time the Mark of Zorro star was making a film at Warwick Castle and stopped in Sharnford at the Cosy Café for a meal.
While there he managed to lock himself in the toilet and it was 30 minutes before his shouting alerted someone to his plight. To everyone’s surprise he was remarkably jovial about the whole incident and considered it marvellous to have been locked in an old fashioned toilet!
2) On April 4 1889, the Prince of Wales came to Gopsall and later attended Leicester races. In 1891 Queen Victoria passed through Snarestone on her way to Derby to lay a stone in the infirmary.
He recalled Lord Curzon’s coming of age when 900 bottles of champagne were consumed.
3) During the 1940s Gillie Potter attained widespread popularity with his radio series and also as a music hall comedian. He claimed his inspiration from the village of Hogges Norton (Norton).
His humorous monologues depicted characters in a farming village. He opened his shows with the remark “Good evening England, this is Gillie Potter speaking to you in English from Hogges Norton”.
7) In 1957, the Bishop of Leicester asked the vicar of St Mary’s, Leicester, if he would “look after Cadeby and Sutton Cheney for a few weeks”. That vicar was the Rev Teddy Boston. Rev Boston remained at Cadeby until his death in 1986. He was born in Solihull in 1924 and was the son of a coal merchant, his mother being an art teacher at Birmingham.
His obsession with the power of steam and his passion for organ music never detracted him from restoring the souls of men in preference to restoring steam engines.
Rev Boston studied at Cambridge College and was ordained at Ely Cathedral in 1950 and became a curate at St 4) In 1910, a large mob of This massive crowd of over of Sutton Cheney, during the Neats before coming to Leicesangry protesters gathered out-ter.500approachedhimasheleftSecondWorldWar,andthe side the church in Sutton the church and compelled him prisoners who were mainly He established at Cadeby Cheney while the Vicar, the Rev to renounce living at Sutton Italian were directed to landone of the best-known model Christopher Hudson was conCheney. drainage while others worked railway collections in the counducting the service. Later, he married the woman on individual farms. try. The rectory was listed as a
The cause of the disturbance and he and the child, who was a National Transport Museum. was the vicar himself who had boy, were all united as one famcommitted the unforgivable ily. sin which was known as “French Love” whereby he had fathered a child out of wedlock. 5) A large prisoner of war camp was set up in the village
6) One of the most important events in the history of Cotesbach took place in 1607 when the land was being enclosed; 5,000 men, women and chil- dren from neighbouring counties gathered here to fill in ditches and cut down hedges in protest of what was being done.
The revolt was eventually put down by the army before it could spread to other parts of the county.
8) The road from Lutterworth (Bitteswell) became part of the Turnpike Road. Inaugurated by George III in 1760 a gate was erected across the road and was only opened after the payment of the appropriate fee.
A cottage was built for the Tollgate Keeper in the same year. The tollage was known at ‘Bitteswell Gate’ and remembered by many of the older generation as the Hinckley Turnpike.
9) Charles Moore of Norton purchased the manor at Appleby in 1599. His second son, John, raised a fortune as a merchant in London in the East India trade.
In 1681, he became Lord Mayor of London and was elected President of Christ’s Hospital in the same year.
During his term of office as Lord Mayor he was knighted by Charles II for his loyal services.
This great man who was born and baptised at Norton was a great philanthropist and devoted much of his fortune to the less fortunate.
Sir John founded the school at Appleby Parva which was designed by Wren, and catered for 50 boy boarders who came from all over the country until 1706.
Originally, it was restricted to boys from Norton and Appleby and neighbouring villages.
The figure of the founder in his official robes stands in the arch in the wall. The school closed in 1904 due to lack of support but was reopened in 1959 by Sir Robert Martin.